I starred this because I really like Chretien - he kept Canada out of Iraq when there was a lot of pressure to join the ‘Coalition of the Willing’. That’s actually pretty sexy - for real.

Now that you mention it, I wonder if Trump thought he was actually giving the pope the collected writings of Martin Luther- anticipating the sick burn and ending up confused, as always.

Democrats, apparently.

I’m thinking Kate Hepburn in Bringing up Baby, or Carol Lombard in every single movie she was in - the Screwball comedies of the 1930's were arguably a fertile breeding ground for MPDG

Okay- the Christian Right interprets the ‘camel through the eye of a needle’ comparison as, “There was a gate in Jerusalem called The Eye of the Needle that was exactly as large as an unladen camel. You just needed to unload the camel and it would fit just fine. Same goes for a rich man - he just needs to…

Wait - I scrolled back up to the top just to check. The article is from New York magazine, not The New Yorker.

Yes! It’s uncanny, how much he looks like Pepe!

Kale chips: briefly trendy, oddly fussy, (so easily scorched!) proof that any given kale leaf is 70% water, 25% good intentions, 5% actual food.

Another thing to be sad about: the director of Sharkwater, Rob Stewart, died last month. He was a true advocate for shark preservation; Sharkwater was a self-funded project. He will be missed.

‘But I didn’t know pandas would nibble on MY leg!”, sobs man who voted for The-Pandas-Nibbling-on-People’s-Legs Party.

I can’t find a reference to Trudeau teaching at a private school, but I know he taught at a public school in Vancouver - Churchill.

SNL did make fun of it on their last show, in the People’s Court sketch - Putin pulls the ‘shake n’ yank’ on one of Trump’s sons. It was brilliant, because it implied that Trump is aping Putin. 

He taught at a public high school - Churchill, in Vancouver.

“Immanatizing the eschaton”

Oooh, I know this one! Rose was wearing a wool coat, and wool keeps its thermal qualities even when it’s wet. (Was it Billy Zane’s coat?) So Rose would have been partially protected from the freezing weather, but Jack, in his cotton shirt, was a goner.

“My family moved from Canada because of the horrors of socialism.”

Before you start writing, you should read UnLunDun by China Mieville - it’s pretty much the book you want to write, but, uh, already written. It’s pretty good, too!

It looks like the work of Takashi Murakami, a Japanese artist who specializes inn the ‘superflat’ style.

Well then, you can rest easy; the quote is by C.S. Lewis, not Lewis Carroll.

We were living in Japan, which has large, poisonous centipedes. One bite from a centipede can cause pain and extreme swelling to an adult; it can kill a small child. I had never seen one up close, but I had heard terrifying stories about them.