I read somewhere that Germans believed that if you hung an image of Hitler on a wall it could withstand the ceaseless, round-the-clock aerial bombings that occurred toward the end. If you’ve ever seen photos of what Berlin or Leipzig or Essen or any number of German cities looked like in the summer 0f 1945 you’ll see…

Trump, over the course of his extremely crooked and one-grift-after-another life, has himself admitted that he has been deposed 100 times. It’s probably more; when you never pay anyone for anything and cheat people from all walks of life out of money sometimes they get a little angry.

This reminds me, it is time to rewatch Oliver Stone’s “Nixon.” I’m not a huge Oliver Stone fan but what he and Anthony Hopkins (as Nixon) did was revelatory. Plus, Joan Allen is Pat, and David Hyde Pierce is John Dean, so for that acting trio alone it’s worth a watch. Madeline Kahn plays Martha Mitchell, and who else…

I thought Bobby Flay was looking pretty good there. A little photo research reveals that this image was taken in early 1997 and the woman is Joan Kennedy (Senator Ted Kennedy’s ex-wife, now widow.) Why they chose a photo from almost 23 years ago is anyone’s guess. It’s from Getty, so it wasn’t free.

When we moved into our new building we were all newcomers. The Board asked people who wanted to participate in Halloween to put a notice on their doors so the kids (and there were lots of them at the time) would know where to go. We got few takers.

My thoughts exactly. @mother: Like yr hubs I leed a Godly Cthlic life. I have 8 kids and m preg agn. U only 3. How? Only 3 p-in-v? Bless U.

Randolph may be sincere but my oldest brother was 16 when RFK was assassinated and I once asked him about what it was like to live through the shock of it. He has absolutely no memory of it. “How about MLK, Jr.?” “That I remember.”

Far more likely that they’ll kill themselves and/or someone else.

It’s not like the Kennedy men (and lots of Kennedy wives) don’t have a history of drug and alcohol “misuse,” as it’s now called.

You’re giving Scott Brown too much credit. One of the main reasons why we don’t have single payer is they had to get Al Gore’s 2000 VP candidate Joe Lieberman (D-Aetna and Cigna; later I-Aetna and Cigna) on board.

Did you ever go to the M&M Cafe? I used to visit friends in Detroit (most were actually in Dearborn) in the mid--late 80s and they practically lived at the M&M. I googled it and it shut down last year. It wasn’t failing, it was because the owners were 70 and after 35 years it got to be too much. 

I had never heard of Lord Woolton and that was fascinating. Have you ever heard of the Bevin Boys?

I used to work on the 29th floor of a building. When there were high winds it would sway and actually creak. The first time I experienced this I said to a coworker, “This must have been similar to crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower.” She said, “More like a shackled inmate on a prison ship bound for Alcatraz, but…

Pequot, Peugeot, it’s not like this is Jalopnik and for that matter nothing gets reread, let alone proofread, on any of the sites before they hit Publish.

Especially not in Britain. You can get hearty, rich cheeses for less than Americans pay for “cheese product” and the bread is generally nowhere near Wonder Bread or dollar store bread’s low standards. France would also be good for this.

This is very 1950s but have you ever had cream cheese on date nut bread? So, so yummy.

Where I grew up it was a very Catholic town, and even though we weren’t Catholic and it was post-Vatican II my parents insisted on Fish Fridays. This was usually fish sticks, which I loved as a child. I once asked my mother, “Why can’t we have meat loaf? Why is it always fish sticks on Friday?” She said, “Because I…

There seems to have been another kinja “upgrade.” My problem is that when someone recommends a post of mine, I have to move the cursor around to get it to link to something, and then when it does it jumps to the main blog post, so I have to scroll down with a lot of static and cluttering ads to figure out what I said…

Starred not to express enthusiasm but condolences.

Have you ever had Whisps? They’re cheese in potato chip form. I like the parmesan ones.