SNOWFLAKES WIN AGAIN. https://t.co/KEf6ODep4Z
— Jim Swift (@JSwiftTWS) March 21, 2018
Due to inclement weather conditions in Washington, DC, tonight's @benshapiro lecture at @Georgetown has been canceled. More information about rescheduling the event will be shared when available. pic.twitter.com/A5rtYTemYq
— YAF (@yaf) March 21, 2018
Yeah, after last night’s post, I pretty much hadda. Murphy the Trickster God is mighty and manifold, but ‘subtle’ is not among His primary characteristics.
But to keep it positive, here’s Robin Givhan, in the Washington Post, “Michelle Obama wanted to gain the public’s trust. So she started with a garden”:
… The occasion was the opening evening of Leading Women Defined, a private gathering of supremely accomplished black women organized by Debra Lee and BET aimed at networking and uplift. The former first lady has made a number of appearances since last spring — mostly to audiences on the lucrative convention speaking circuit, with attendees numbering in the thousands. This was a far more intimate crowd, perhaps a hundred women. And as Obama spoke, they responded with knowing nods and understanding smiles and the occasional exhortation of support…
During the wide-ranging conversation, Mrs. Obama, wearing the Gucci map-print dress that was such a hit when she wore it on “Ellen” in 2016, looked back on her 2008 campaign learning curve and how she came to realize that her enthusiasm and passion could easily be turned into angry, scolding sound bites. “I couldn’t count on my husband’s campaign to protect me; I had to protect myself,” she said. “They were using me like I was a candidate and supporting me like I was a spouse.”
“I had to learn how to deliver a message,” she added, noting that often meant not being so passionate and speaking with an ever-present smile. And here the audience murmured understandingly, because they all knew what it means to be called angry when really you’re just emphatic…
Once in the East Wing, she spent a year sussing out the lay of the land, strategizing and readying herself to roll out her “Let’s Move” healthy living initiative. She also grappled with the public’s expectations and with her new role as “the spouse.” With two Ivy League degrees and a résumé that included executive positions in hospital and city management, she was dismayed that people seemed to question whether she could handle being first lady. “You’re shocked that I could do this job?” she said with a wry chuckle…
“The garden was a subversive act,” she said. “It was the carrot. You can’t go in with guns blazing until people trust you.” And there could be no reprimanding. No finger-wagging. Because she knew that her finger-wagging, a black woman’s finger-wagging, would be both amplified and resented.
So she gave herself a bit of advice: Put down your finger and pick up the garden hoe. “What’s more innocent than a garden?” Mrs. Obama said.
She spent a lot of time visiting D.C. public schools during her White House tenure, then followed up by inviting the students she had met to the White House. “The second touch or third touch is when they start believing it’s real,” she said. It’s when kids start to believe that what you’ve said matters and that they, in fact, matter.
Recently, her days have been taken up with her memoir, which will be published in the fall. “Becoming” aims to explore how her ordinary childhood prepared her to do extraordinary things — the power of the ordinary. It’s about her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, about growing into her role as first lady and continuing to evolve — and about refusing to place herself last, which is not just an act of self-love but is also a public, civic, political obligation…
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
Love Forever FLOTUS ??
Saw a clip from this event.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
I look forward to the day when people take note in print what Jamie Dimon is wearing at a shareholders meeting. And thank you to the nameless woman who first railed about this in my presence cause it surely drives me nuts too now.
and FtR, this is not saying anything about women who follow fashion, just the journalists who feel the need to add these details in an article that has nothing to do with it
Baud
Saccone officially conceded to Lamb.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: That is a surprise.
bjacques
I hope someone can talk Virgin Ben down from that priviledge.
Damien
If we’re gonna have a constitutional crisis, can it include flouting the 26th Amendment and just running Barack Obama again?
I miss having smart people in power. I miss having empathetic people in power. Honestly, no snark, legitimately miss them both to my core.
Darkrose
Morning @rikyrah!
Mmhm. Thinking about how my last boss was always after me claiming I “yelled” at people on the phone because I raise my voice when I’m excited, and how, when I was having panic attacks and self-injuring, there was zero sympathy, only “You’re so violent!”
Not having a good day. I can’t stop thinking about the young black man who was shot and killed by police in his backyard in my fucking city. I think about how the white methhead who stole my car five years ago had been stopped by the police the day before and released. And I feel guilty because I can’t protest or march; I’ve barely been able to get my class work done lately. I just want to lie in bed and read fanfic because I can’t cope. I know it’s depression, but whoops! I can’t see my doctor because I got kicked off Covered CA AGAIN, and while I’m back on MediCal, no one knows exactly what my status is so I can’t sign up for Kaiser and talk to my actual doctor, and all of this is so unnecessary because we’re the only developed country in the 21st century that still has to deal with this nonsense.
Magda in Black
“I had to learn how to deliver a message,” she added, noting that often meant not being so passionate and speaking with an ever-present smile. And here the audience murmured understandingly, because they all knew what it means to be called angry when really you’re just emphatic…”
There is an incredible fear, among certain social groups, of anything resembling passion or excitement….in women….even whole-hearted laughter is suspect…..I’ll leave it to you to guess which group.
(Speaking from experience)
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly:
To be fair, Robin Givhans (one reason I was careful to name her) is part of the ‘Style’ section & regularly covers fashion, too.
OzarkHillbilly
John Oliver’s “Marlon Bundo” is outselling Pence’s. Who’da thunk it?
Anne Laurie
@Darkrose: That totally sucks, and you’re all too correct.
Hope the coverage situation gets straightened out soonest; meanwhile, remember there are people who wish you well, some of whom you’ve never met…
bemused
I’m looking forward to reading Michelle’s memoir.
Does the WH garden still exist? The Trumps have Barron and grandchildren. You’d think it would be good PR if they did some gardening at WH. Oh wait, the deplorable base would throw a fit and president jackass won’t go near any Obama initiatives no matter wholesome or presumably unpolitical.
Kasie Hunt is on msnbc and the cable network is still doing this dopey “Kasie DC” lightning bolts bit.
Anne Laurie
@Magda in Black:
You probably know the Margaret Atwood quote: Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.
Works pretty well if you swap the nouns for “White people” and “Black people”, too…
Magda in Black
@Anne Laurie:
I was thinking of Ms. Atwood, yes. Thank you!
Lets add this:
“You will always be too much of something for someone:too big, too loud, too soft,too edgy.If you round out your edges,you lose your edge.Apologize for mistakes.Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone profusely.But don’t apologize for being who you are.”
― Danielle LaPorte
Baud
@bemused: Actually, I vaguely recall that Melania was keeping the garden.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused:
Yes.
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: FYWP. My reply to you disappeared into the ether. I forgave her. A little bit. This time. ;-)
MomSense
@Darkrose:
I’m really sorry you are going through this and not able to get the care you need. Sending support to you. Please let us know how we can help.
Steeplejack (phone)
@bemused:
Kasie Hunt has been bugging me a little lately. She has been showing up on Morning Joe, and her “takes” sound really stupid and horse-racey—and that’s something in that crowd. It feels like word has come down from upstairs to push her “brand” a little bit.
bemused
@Steeplejack (phone):
I don’t pay much attention to Hunt. I like Stephanie Ruhle, Katy Tur and Nicolle Wallace has really grown on me. When I have msnbc on during the day, I noticed I automatically more or less ignore Mika, Andrea Mitchell, Kacie Hunt and start listening more carefully to the other hosts including Ali Velshi.
bemused
@Baud:
@OzarkHillbilly:
If any trump family has ever been in the garden, no photos that I recall.
Lapassionara
@Darkrose: That shooting, and the almost lionizing of the serial bomber in Austin, are two depressing events that reveal so much about what is wrong with our culture.
I hope you can get the help you need soon. Please let us know how you are doing.
debbie
@Baud:
Didn’t they decide to turn it into a playground for the grandkids?
O/T, but this Twitter thread from James Fallows details (with screenshots) how to get rid of FB apps you didn’t know you had and how to adjust settings so they don’t worm their way back in.
JR
@OzarkHillbilly: the new CDs were enshrined two days ago when the USSC said fuck off to the PA GOP. So Saccone needs to get his new campaign in order.
gene108
@Darkrose:
Virtual hugs.
Please hang in there. You are not alone. People are pulling for you.
RedDirtGirl
@Darkrose: So sorry to hear about your situation. Sending you good thoughts!
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Darkrose: How maddening.
We’re cheering for you.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused: Melania get her hands dirty? Why I never! I think she decided fresh home grown fruits and vegetables taste better, even if she had nothing to do with the growing of them. Either that or she needs a refuge where donnie Dollhands will never find her.
Frankensteinbeck
@Anne Laurie:
To add detail to how fucked up this is, men are less afraid of a woman laughing at them than of violence from other men. Particularly for not treating women as prey.
debbie
This Biden-Trump feud is … interesting.
Frankensteinbeck
@JR:
The USSC is less sympathetic to gerrymandering than you would think. Mind you, ‘ever decides anything except confirming pro-GOP gerrymandering’ clears that bar.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I don’t know. I don’t think we know much about Melania. We see the face she is paid to show us.
OzarkHillbilly
@JR: Makes sense. It is just so unusual to see a republican roll over like that no matter how obvious the end result is.
debbie
@debbie:
Ha! I love Biden’s remarks:
Patricia Kayden
@Damien: I doubt President Obama would be interested in going back to the White House to clean up after yet another White screw up.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m cracking up picturing Melania even stepping into the garden, let alone actually digging in the dirt. A non-gardener friend gave me birthday gift of a nice top to wear while gardening. I laughed silently thinking she should see what most gardeners wear to get down and really dirty.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: Exactly.
bystander
@Damien:
I miss having a First Lady who is an actual role model for every American and who makes you happy when you see her and interests you when she speaks.
I will admit I’m looking forward to what our Second Lady has to say on 60 Minutes this weekend.
Frankensteinbeck
@debbie:
I don’t have to know how in shape Biden is. Trump is grossly overweight, cowardly to the point you wouldn’t believe it as satire, and so weak he has to take a golf cart when walking with other world leaders.
Patricia Kayden
@Darkrose: ((Darkrose)). I briefly heard about the Black young man being shot 20 times in his own backyard but need to look up the circumstances. Horrible.
Joey Maloney
@OzarkHillbilly: I look forward to the day when people take note in print what Jamie Dimon is wearing
at a shareholders meetingin the visiting room at his Federal prison of residence.Steeplejack
@bemused:
I watch the MSNBC evening lineup and occasionally look in during the day, but my Trump derangement syndrome has me checking Morning Joe lately under the “what fresh hell?” doctrine. I’ve been watching a little more this week because Joe himself is off; he grates on me because he reminds me of too many aging Southern frat boys I have known and because he treats Mika like shit. The blowhard factor is high on Morning Joe, but occasionally there is a useful nugget from someone. It’s hit or miss, mostly miss.
I agree with you about Stephanie Ruhle and Nicolle Wallace, although occasionally there is an off note (“Of course we don’t want these job-killing regulations!,” Ruhle; “When I proudly worked in the Bush White House,” Wallace). I don’t see Katy Tur very much, but she seems okay. I like Ali Velshi.
Ari Melber has been a very strong addition to the evening lineup. He makes Chris Matthews look even older and more clueless than he is.
OzarkHillbilly
@Frankensteinbeck: Which is the face of a wealthy beautiful New York socialite. Outside of the fact that she is a Slovenian model married to trump I know nothing at all of her. It is just hard for me to see her going from the trump tower penthouse to grubbing in the dirt. She might be (maybe she gardened as a child and misses it) but I can’t see it.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: People voted for Trump to preserve that right.
debbie
@Frankensteinbeck:
Absolutely. It’s so easy to push his (undersized) buttons!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s why Baud is the answer.
Eh, what’s the question again?
cosima
@Magda in Black: I’ve been having the ‘tall poppies’ conversation with Little C now & then recently. One nice thing about raising children in the age of hyper-technology & mental social media platforms is that if you are very selective about where you spend your time you find some great things to share & discuss with your children, peers and friends. Tall poppies has been discussed here on BJ in various threads now & then. Little C is at the top academically, and still inquisitive enough to be asking lots of questions, but also being mocked for being a ‘know it all.’ All of which is a precursor to the working world, where, unless we see a dramatic sea change (unlikely) she will be called bossy/overbearing/pushy/etc (as I was, in a male-dominated work environment). So, not long ago I said to her (paraphrasing) ‘I could say to you be quieter, talk less, don’t ask questions, don’t stand out — you just make yourself a target. But you have dreams, you want to be someone who changes the world, you have goals and you are working hard to make them a reality, so don’t stop doing what you do. You will have to build up your defences, because this world doesn’t have enough tall poppies, and there are a lot of people who want to cut them down.’
All of that is equally true for adults — we never stop having goals, and struggling to find ways to communicate. Michelle Obama is one of those exceptional women who uses her experience & power to effect positive change, and one of the most important things that she’s said here is about her struggle to find effective ways to communicate. The haters are always going to hate, there’s no way around that, but of course there are ways to communicate that are more, or less, effective, whether you are talking to people inclined to listen or not. President Obama was a master of that — I hung on every word he said. At work, in relationships, as a parent — it’s all about communication. We don’t have to change ourselves, but sometimes we need to look at ways that we change how we communicate. I work on that every single day.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It was lost when the Vogons blew up the Earth.
Immanentize
@Darkrose:
I am so aligned with your desire to not get out of bed. You mentioned classwork — does your school have a health and counseling center? Most do, and they might not be able to fully help you with your underlying health needs, but many might be able to help you with your insurance hassles, or point you to someone who can. Even if you know what you need to do to sort it out, it can be helpful to have someone with you while you do. Or it did for me.
cosima
@Darkrose: Sending light. Our oldest has extreme anxiety & OCD issues. She often finds her anxiety paralysing. Reach out to the people who love & care about you — that is what they want you to do. Anxiety may be telling you otherwise, but anxiety (and depression) lie, and a vicious circle/cycle. You cannot fix broken healthcare systems, or broken law enforcement systems, but you can take care of yourself as best you can, and part of that is reaching out rather than isolating yourself.
cosima
@bjacques: For the win.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
@Darkrose: hang in there! I hope the insurance gets worked out soon, and you’re absolutely correct that the situation is an obscene waste of everyone’s health, time, and money. Wishing you better days soon.
Frankensteinbeck
@OzarkHillbilly:
It’s the not knowing that makes me shrug at anything and go ‘sure, why not?’ It would require Trump to let her get away with it, but the strain in their contract is visible. I don’t debate she’s a sex worker. I hate it when people judge sex work. In her particular branch, part of the job is adopting the public persona her husband/client wants. More so since in this case he’s so legendarily shallow and vain. She could be down to earth and practical when she’s not on the job, or even more shallow, or a sadist, or… anything. she could have servants doing it, or go “Thank God, something real” as she digs her fingers in the dirt. Who knows? She would lie about it if asked. That’s her job.
woodrowfan
@debbie: thank you
Kay
I wish they would add “maternal mortality” to this list.
This is a problem just looking for a deep-pocketed politically powerful political advocate! So you would think anti-abortion people would take to it like a duck to water. They love mothers and babies, right? American women die more in pregnancy and childbirth and they die because the health care system hasn’t put any effort or focus into saving them. They die because they were not a priority in the US health care system, which focused on infant mortality, so much so that they didn’t even report and collect info on maternal mortality deaths properly. It was THAT low a priority. Other rich countries cared about it! Other rich countries managed to reduce infant mortality and pregnancy-related mortality. But not the US. We just decided to hell with the mother, we save babies.
But the giant and politically powerful and lavishly funded anti-abortion movement didn’t take it up. Instead, feminists did.
satby
@Kay: I would share the article you just quoted, but you didn’t put a link?
bemused
@bystander:
So do I. I must groan in painful disbelief several times a day at the actions and words of the subpar people in the WH and GOP. I’m still amazed that trump used the word “excoriate” in a tweet and also that some WH aide who inserted the word knew the meaning and spelling.
rikyrah
@Darkrose:
I hope that you get the help you need. Don’t take the burdens of the world on your shoulders.
Baud
@Kay: Your comment reads a lot like identity politics to me, Kay. Do you think that’s wise?
OzarkHillbilly
@Frankensteinbeck:
It’s an honest job, which is more than one can say for anything trump has ever done. The whole “they’re selling their body” always cracked me up. As a carpenter, exactly wtf do people think I’m doing?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
FWIW, I have always found carpentry to be immoral.
Steeplejack
And another thing: this ad from “Farmers for Free Trade” has been pissing me off. It has been showing up on Morning Joe and the pundit shows.
White-bread Montana farmer lady says (verbatim excerpt): “We’re very optimistic about the economy under President Trump. However, we’re very concerned about the trade policies from Washington. We depend on free-trade policies to maintain our export markets. [. . .] Policies that restrict trade would be devastating for farms like ours. Someday I’d like to pass the farm down to my boys. Mr. President, protect free trade and keep our agricultural economy strong.”
Gee, if only President Trump could do something about this coming trade war that has popped up out of nowhere!
This is Trump’s base in a nutshell: they love the big orange dope and absolutely refuse to connect that to the reality of what he’s actually doing. It’s all coming “from Washington”!
Kay
@satby:
Sure.
Guess which state is the lead on reducing maternal mortality? One of the conservative states where men spend a good portion of every legislative session strutting around crowing about how much they love mommies and babies? Nope. California. If you choose to have an abortion you should go to a liberal state, but if you choose to have a baby and hope to come out alive you should also go to a liberal state.
Baud
@Steeplejack: Not that I disagree with the sentiment but that is a probably a paid industry ad with actors from California.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: You aren’t alone in that.
bemused
@Steeplejack:
Yes, Ari Melber too. They do disappoint at times but still good considering it’s cable news. Can’t stand to watch Todd or Matthews. I will watch Morning Joe and other shows when they have guests on that have interesting and credible news to talk about.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not in 6 inch heels, that’s for sure.
Kay
@Steeplejack:
I get a kind of mean kick out of him screwing them. The US opened up markets for foreign agricultural products, but now Trump won’t make any trade deals so markets for US ag products abroad are still closed. Agricultural states were the big winners on the transpacific trade partnership. It’s yet another area where their racism got in the way of their common sense. Obama was MUCH better for them than Trump. I hope their hatred of Obama makes the debt payments on all that equipment and ground they “buy” with borrowed money, because that’s all they get out of this deal.
But her emails!!
@Steeplejack: Trump catches Morning Joe from time to time, judging by his comments on Mika and Joe. The add is probably aimed at him, not the broader audience. Has the requisite ass kissing plus appeal to Trump as savior (as opposed to the actual problem).
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack:
The ad is being directed AT the trump base telling them what to think, not coming FROM the trump base telling you what they think. I almost feel sorry for them they are so easily taken. Almost.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
If I were a carpenter
And you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?
Kay
@Steeplejack:
They’re awful, ag industry people. They’re so vulnerable to Republican dog whistles. Latta (US House) did a town hall meeting with “farmers” here (ag land holders- most them don’t do the farming- they contract it out). The whole meeting was dominated by farmers bitching about food stamps. Food stamps are a voucher to purchase agricultural products. No one benefits more from food stamps than agriculture does. This whole myth about how they have all this common sense is just nonsense. They don;t make the simplest connections.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Well I had a hammer
I hammered in the morning
I got hammered in the evening
All over this land
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Did you actually look at the ad? The woman is identified as Michelle Erickson-Jones of Broadview, Montana. And a quick Google dive shows that a woman by that name is on the executive board of the Montana Grain Growers Association. Make of that what you will.
ETA: I’m sure the ad was scripted, but the message is the same whether it’s delivered by an actor or a “real person.”
Amir Khalid
@bemused:
“Excoriate” is a twenty-dollar word in my book, and I was taught that a good writer uses such words but seldom. I think the aide who put it in the tweet to make Trump seem smart was trying just a little too hard.
Frankensteinbeck
@OzarkHillbilly:
Like most jobs, some people like it, some people hate it, either way the vast majority are doing it to cover the bills. For the ones where the job sucks, I don’t judge people as inferior for hating their fast food job. Looking down on mistresses and trophy wives is a variety of slut-shaming, pretending sex degrades a woman and has to be justified by love. She got a job that pays incredibly well and the job requirements are sex, fluffing a man’s ego, and playing Prima Donna to the outside world. The only thing I know about her that is not part of that is that she has tried to shelter her son from the godawful dumpster fire of the rest of the family. That is honestly not a high bar, but she’s the only person in the White House who clears it. Judging her, even with assuming she hates gardening, just isn’t my business.
I don’t know why slut-shaming is such a pet peeve of mine. I have no experience that should make it personal. It just is.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Kay – I think a big part of the problem is the disparity in the availability of good health care and good prenatal care especially for poor women and African American women (even well to do African American women, Serena Williams almost died from post natal blood clots because the staff on the maternity floor she was on ignored her history of blood clots and her symptoms). The U.S. has I higher rate of pre-term birth compared to other industrialized nations also, especially for African American women, this needs to be researched more to find out the cause….
People also conflate infant mortality (death from the age of 28 days to 1 year) with perinatal mortality (death up to the age of 28 days). The comparison for perinatal mortality rates across countries gets even more complicated because some countries do not count babies born before a certain number of weeks, or under a certain birth weight. The U.S. counts all live births.
“We note that although Washington, DC, has the highest maternal mortality ratio in the nation, non-Hispanic white patients in this district have the lowest mortality ratio in the United
States. Excellent care is apparently available but is not reaching all the people.”
https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2016/10000/Health_Care_Disparity_and_State_Specific.25.aspx?sessionEnd=true
http://www.skepticalob.com/2016/09/the-rise-in-us-maternal-mortality-the-cause-will-surprise-you.html
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Steeplejack (phone):
Yup. What happens is upstairs starts to push her brand and they’ll tell her “be more centrist, like Broder, so you can appeal to the heartland and don’t forget, always be balanced and criticize ‘both sides'”
jayjaybear
@Patricia Kayden: Shuri: “Great. Another white boy(‘s problems) for us to fix.”
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@bemused: There’s something about Stephanie Ruhle that is really appealing (photo)
Ohio Mom
@Darkrose: What everyone else said, and also this:
While you are in this holding pattern with our dysfunctional health care system, please try a nice walk in fresh air. That has always been one of my go-tos when depression strikes (as it has throughout my life).
It’s a spirit-lifter. No, it doesn’t last as long as medication but every little bit helps. Also, if skipping meals is an issue, please force yourself to eat regular and healthy-enough meals.
Even if it feels impossible, it isn’t, take the little steps to take care of yourself. We are all pulling for you.
different-church-lady
Here, let me ruin that for you:
“Mark Zuckerberg wanted to gain the public’s trust. So he started Facebook”
different-church-lady
@OzarkHillbilly:
I don’t think he’d do that dress any justice.
different-church-lady
Well sure, but I don’t think moving the voting age back to 21 is gonna do much to help him win a third term.
Elmo
@Frankensteinbeck: I get where you’re coming from, and I’m there with you on the broader topic – but the particular kind of sex work we are talking about here includes attaching yourself to a particular man, and providing support/validation to him. So I don’t judge her for being a sex worker or a trophy wife, but I do judge her for the choices she made in whom to attach herself to.
She chose to align herself with his birtherism, she chose to accept his laundered mob money, she chose to accept the money saved by stiffing contractors. For those things, she should be judged.
SFAW
It seems that one of the sponsors for the Snowflakes’R’Us fest that The Virgin Ben was puling about is the YAF, the latest incarnation of the Young Americans for Freedom (although they’ve apparently renamed themselves due to some unification with another YAF).
I remember talking with an idiot YAFer during Vietnam times. Bunch of morons, if they are all like him..
Shana
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m with you on the perceived need to comment on womens’ dress/appearance but Robin Givhan IS the Post’s fashion writer so I’m inclined to give her a pass on this one.
afanasia
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw a picture of her in the vegetable garden, looking sad. I assumed she was missing Michelle, too.
Mike in Pasadena
I miss Michelle. She has a good heart and is really smart. Naturally, the Republicans savaged her because, well, she’s blah. Oh yeah, and because she didn’t shut up like they wanted her to. She actually tried to do things that mattered.
Sister Golden Bear
Yes I’m a snowflake — and the avalanche is coming…