But even still, if you go back to 1900 and exclude FDR, who kept winning and winning, so much winning, (and say Truman only won one election on his own, in 1948, following Roosevelt) only three Presidents have done it: Taft (1908), Hoover (1928) and George H.W. Bush (1988), all Republicans by the way.

While he was on death row I read that he purposefully moved to Florida to continue and wind up his spree specifically because Florida had the death penalty and that’s how he wanted to die.

My husband takes a very dim view of humanity and if he were asked about someone his (theoretical) response would be along the lines of, “I’d be surprised if he hasn’t done far worse things. Have you talked to him? Have you noticed how he’s always sniffling? And doesn’t one leg seem slightly shorter than the other,…

It’s always amazed me that there were/are great cities in the South like New Orleans and Charleston that were population hubs centuries before the advent of air conditioning. On top of that the dress codes mandated a lot more covering up than most people do now in the summer, even in offices. I think Im getting the…

Nassau County is, in many ways, a land down under.

Chief Technology Officer. I knew tweens years ago who knew better about how to not post crazy stuff on MySpace.

My black husband and my white self went to a new place for breakfast yesterday. He was the only black person in the place, although it is very groovy and antifa (which is why it was filled to the brim with self-satisfied woke white people in a predominantly black neighborhood.) I said, “Oh look, they have French toast…

“‘Even if you take the racism out of it’”

My university had no Greek system, and frarorities, which is a great word by the way, abounded. I still keep in touch with so many people, have gone to so many weddings, and am the godfather to two children of my frarority “family.” And I was an out gay man at a very conservative school at a very conservative time but…

Trump’s staff didn’t name it the Winter White House, in a strange twist of history. Marjorie Merriwether Post, who built the thing, bequeathed it to the Federal government upon her death. She had hoped, in her own words, that it would serve as a Winter White House. Nixon wasn’t interested (he had his own roost in Key…

I think it would also have to be place specific. How much would someone pay me, a New Yorker, for my vote in the Presidential election? Not much, since the one doing the paying would have to buy an awful lot of votes to get NY to vote for a Republican. Same with California.

September is usually the start of hurricane season. We used to own a place in South Beach (Miami Beach, an artificially constructed barrier island) and we had hurricane and flooding insurance up the wazoo. We had it for ten years and it was hurricane-free, just by chance. We finally got rid of it because there’s more…

Not so much for the pets though. I love plants and gardening but I love dogs even more, so my green thumb does its work far away from our apartment where our dog(s) could/would gnaw on the fruits of my labor. One year we made the mistake of getting a real Christmas tree. The minute I hear the first Christmas carol,…

At this company especially. I know some of the commenters are past their sell-by date, myself included (over 35) but is anyone who is receiving any kind of income from the Gizmodo Media Group (or whatever this is nowadays) over the age of 35?

That’s what I used to do, but today when I click on Pending I’m not getting the “Show All Comments” button to click on. I’ve tried this in Chrome and Safari, and I have the latest version of both. This is all very strange. Those poor AV Club newbies.

Hi MD, I’m picking you at random because you seem so kinja-fluent. Is there something wrong with kinja today? This is the fourth or fifth article I’ve read with no gray comments. Was everyone ungrayed? Are the gray comments just not showing up? We shall see; I am in the grays...

One bright spot is that this is not what it’s like to live in Germany in the 1930s.

I don’t think the mail carrier literally threw the mail away, but in my neighborhood tons of stuff is sent back “undeliverable.” My small building actually set up its own internal mail system (one of the building employees had to get some kind of permission to open the mailboxes) so that the paper notices, required by…

I came to your comment and can’t continue on without venting.

If it’s any consolation, I think we both know that all dogs go to Heaven. In which case LuLu will meet my dapper King Charles spaniel, who was quite a hit with the ladies. Unfortunately LuLu will also have to get by his boon companion, a female Cairn terrier who was older and served as his “mother” and protector.