Women at Trump rallies — scorning Christine Blasey Ford — when many/most of them have had similar enough (or worse) experiences? They may know, or may hide from themselves, the wrongness, but they believe the consequences are low: they think, probably correctly, that other women will…

Our bias toward pairs is deep. Games involve two players or two sides. Politics seems to throw up issues where we align ourselves in oppositional pairs. Even Shakespeare would frame pairwise oppositions, Montagues and Capulets, Hamlet and his murderous stepfather.

When kids are in the ‘terrible twos,’ a couple of cool things are going on: they’re realizing their own agency — ‘I can do things in the world and get it to come out like I want!’ — and they’re creating categories.

Classification is a sacrament. Actual classification, in real life, is ~99% bullshit.

“That’s far too extreme. Obviously, this comment can be discounted or ignored.”

A friend in her mid-60's spent a lifetime not exercising. Last December, her good intentions passed some invisible threshold. Now, she’s done her first 5K, is training for a 10K, and wants to do a four-hour ocean paddle.