Last year when I was writing the intro to the book I saw the future.

My first book was an allegorical evisceration of the patriarchy.

No

We made it. Barely.

Though I heard Vanity Fair is all lies and has sad numbers.

Cool new study. Harvard researchers found that 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year if male doctors were as good as female physicians.

Which makes it especially weird that female physicians are paid less.

Keep an eye out for this term. It's sneaky. It sounds so close to universal coverage but means basically nothing. Like how we all have "universal access" to yachts and skyscrapers and careers as professional figure skaters.

Trump Grill is not faring well on Yelp today.

This is the president-elect. He's not refuting an argument, just using his power to silence critics with ad-hominem attacks. It's at once totally juvenile but also the way he will obstruct free speech and press without touching the first amendment.

Keep speaking. Among other things, people probably need to be warned about Trump Grill.

This is more nuanced than the headline suggests, but basically yeah.

When people have no health care and the ice caps are gone, at least it will be legal to say merry Christmas.

It's alive.

The new issue of The Atlantic has an excerpt from my book. Ta-Nehisi wrote the cover story about Obama's legacy, which is amazing, so this is sort of trivial by comparison but hopefully fun. On stands next week but online early today.

I got carded when I was buying kombucha, more than once. Then a congressman told me that shouldn't happen. That became this story.

If you're feeling hopeless/alone, I can't recommend Hunter's writing from the 1972 campaign highly enough.