My pooches take baths very personally. They blast out of the bathroom, bucking, kicking, jumping and rolling on the floor. My girl dog hurries out and then flings herself on the floor behind the sofa like a teenage girl grounded from the phone.

Last October, I had an encounter with local police.

I have a colleague who didn’t know the sex of her children until they were born. I like to think I would do it the same way.

I am so, so sorry.

I must be lucky, because I’ve worked for four women in my life (and three men), and one of them is the best boss I’ve ever had. Another was good and the first woman I worked for was fine - not vindictive or mean, but not a natural-born leader.

I worked for a manager who was so, so power hungry and image-obsessed, but not terribly competent. A colleague had to schedule a major surgery that would include her being on temporary disability (the surgery would put her in a wheelchair for about four weeks and then two weeks of physical therapy; Nice to meet you,…

I love them in P&R.

That’s my feeling. Once Gawker/Jez hates on someone, they commit to it.

Methinks thou doth protest too much. But that’s you’re prerogative, and I’m not mad atcha.

This isn’t glitterati related, but I did have a disappointing experience with 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee. It was back in 2009, after he’d tried to become the nominee for the 2008 elections. He was coming to town to sign copies of A Simple Christmas. I called his publicist to put in an interview…

Tangent: I’m gay, and I haven’t ever heard gay men call each other faggot. Fag, yes. Faggot, no. I wonder if it’s regional or situational? Though Perez Hilton called Will.I.Am a faggot on video once, so...

There is an episode of The Waltons in which the Walton boys and some rascals from the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains shivaree a newly married couple, and the groom is SCANDALIZED.

We would have been friends. Had we known each other IRL in 1996.

Now I want to try this.

Shivaree!

Did that... hurt like hell?

Can I bitch? My dad loathes Barack Obama. I pressed him for his chief complaint about him. Here’s what he said: “He never talks about being a born-again Christian.”

I had two friends in college - very, very close friends of mine — who had abortions because they thought it would make their boyfriends stay with them. And both boyfriends dumped them after the abortion.

Way, way back when I was doing weight watchers, I would visit the bulletin boards every day. I was routinely surprised at how often women who were dealing with infertility would lash out at mothers who were having bad days with their kids. It was like “I want a baby so badly, how DARE you say ANYTHING negative about…

There really is no universal response to abortion, is there?