As an actual Pagan, I suppose it’s pointless to be in a huff about this trash.

I hear you. Who the heck is Ariane Grande? Bella Hadid? Cardi B-what?

Torched by an angel!

I guess the voters have learned their lesson.

Back before I got a cell phone I got an international calling card. Expensive, but I didn’t use it very much. Now I have a cell phone (not a smartphone), which works in Canada but not in Europe. I’m never sure - is a SIM card something you insert into the phone? (Sorry, I’m old.)

The fact is, I first heard this tale during the Nagano Olympics, when Tom Brokaw devoted an entire hour of Olympic coverage to an interview with Zamperini. Bad enough to be lost at sea for 7 weeks, then to be zaptured and abused, then to be transferred to a camp run by the abuser at the first camp. Who wouldn’t be dama…

I am still using the Sunbeam electric mixer my mother had. It’s over 50 years old and still works. Also the Sunbeam electric razor I took to college 50 years ago still works. (Mainly because I rarely use either one, but they still work!)

Treats/junk food/snacks. If you really want ice cream or potato chips or pizza, don’t get the cheap brand just because it’s cheap. Get the kind you really want.

I suppose a wet-bag (or is it a dry bag...?), used in canoeing, would work if you were expecting a significant flood. It’s the size of a duffel bag, made of tough plastic, and can be folded over and sealed closed. It’s meant for when your canoe or boat tips over - keeps your clothes food dry. From experience, it works.

It’s not just credit, but debit cards. I have zero sympathy for people who complain bitterly when their banks charge them for overspending money that they don’t have. That doesn’t happen when paying for small expenditures with cash. If you have $4 in your wallet for lunch, well, figure out what will make a lunch for…

That’s an insult to Draco. At least he has a conscience somewhere in there.

The NY Times ran a similar piece about the same time, by a guy covering Fashion Week. He lost 5 lbs., mainly because he had to dash to and fro covering shows across Manhattan and didn’t have much time to eat between whatever meals he could snatch. I still think fondly of his “roast beef sandwich and a Coke”. sounds lik…

It seems to be a common disease among news anchors. Just be Bob Schieffer.

Gio gets a hysterical edge to his voice. I’d hate to share a kitchen with him.

Also Mom rock. I still have my Greatest Hits LP. Used to want to play sax for them.

That’s bouillon, folks, unless you’re King Midas and drinking gold.

I’m even older than you, so for me it’s the great variety-show comics: early Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, George Carlin, Moms Mabley, Alan King, and yes, Cosby and Woody Allen.

I was informed that in Latin America it means “a$$hole”, or “You’re a fa88ot”, so you should use the thumb’s-up sign, except that in Iran that means “Up yours.”

It’s a nineteenth-century term for a pickpocket, but so suggestive.

I know a woman whose mother passed away when she was 5, and she not only doesn’t remember her mother, she has no memories from before then, either. It’s been explained to her as a kind of deliberate amnesia.