No, I honestly like the way they look. Despite not being conservative or a purist in any general sense, I tend to be an extreme Puritan/Luddite about cars for some reason. I like extremely plain-looking cars that get you from point A to point B and that’s it. Which is interesting, because very little else in the 80s…

I was just thinking that I really liked 1980s cars. There’s something about them that just screams ... Well, to me at least, that just screams “Car!”

I thought that was strictly an Antipodean thing. I first encountered the babycino at a coffee shop during a conference trip to Adelaide. Has anyone spotted them in North America yet?

This is actually sort of funny. Trump is up there ranting and spewing bile, and his cheering section boos people who leave — and people think one of the attendees was rude for taking out a book to read when she just couldn’t tolerate any more?

Something is deeply wrong here. Trump, like Carson, has been sounding more and more unhinged every time he opens his mouth. My first assumption about someone who has made that sort of spectacle of himself is usually that he might be drunk, but Trump claims he doesn’t drink. Not that I think Trump wouldn’t lie, but…

Was it you or another writer who referred to Trump as a “hot pork balloon” a few months ago? That one always brings a smile to my face on a bad day!

Criminalizing the white race? Just for pointing out that the predominantly white idiots who make racist threats online are, in fact, committing crimes? Making “terroristic threats” is at least a low-level felony in Missouri.

Dear Ronda,

I love it — orange things make me happy! But I think it should also contain pumpkin pie spice!

That’s brilliant!

I’m ecstatic about this although I’ll probably never live in Canada again (damn, I really liked living there!) Maybe because it gives me a tiny bit of hope in the face of U.S. election disasters like the one that just happened in Kentucky.

I made leczo for the first time. It’s a Hungarian stew that’s apparently quite popular in Poland as well, because I had it for the first time in a local Polish café and loved it. It’s one of those things for which you can find a gazillion recipes online, and most of them contradict the others. Basically, it’s lots and…

You won’t know until you try. The herbal flavors tend to be something people either love or hate. Also, different brands are made from different recipes.

“Okay, you pray for me, I sue you, and let’s see who comes out ahead.”

Hmmm, there has to be an equivalent in veggie dogs. Maybe pollen?

I don’t doubt that there are dicey food producers who use dubious sources of ingredients, especially in the age of dump-it-all-in-a-vat-and-export-it. But I’d also want to know something about this startup’s lab practices. It’s very easy to cross-contaminate specimens in a DNA analysis lab. The vegetarian burgers…

My mother once cracked us up by jogging in her walker, on our way across a shopping mall parking lot. My husband and I couldn’t believe it. She wasn’t a jogger when she was younger — and she was at least 93 when she pulled off that feat.

Thanks. I really still want to punch the guy, but Mom raised me better than that.

I lost my mother last winter. She was in her nineties, and used a walker during the last few years of her life. I can be a pretty impatient creature at times, but something about walking slowly with my mother used to calm me down and just enjoy not being in a hurry for a change.

That story so enraged me that I want to find this asshole and punch him.