His base will support him because that would ease their economic anxiety.

What do you mean?

One of the most irritating things about Trump (and irritating things about Trump is an endless buffet) is the way he’ll tweet things like “Am considering [X] and will announce my decision next Tuesday at 10 AM.” He might as well add, “Stay tuned.” Oh wait, he sometimes does.

I had to google Ernst Thälmann and discovered that there is an Ernst Thälmann island off the southern coast of Cuba. Apparently Erich Honecker dropped by Havana in 1972 and to commemorate the visit Castro renamed the small island for Thälmann.

The Drudge/Clinton/Lewinsky story has its own interesting history. IIRC “Newsweek” had the story but wouldn’t publish it. I believe another news outlet, a newspaper, did too, and they also held it back. Probably because it wasn’t sourced up to their standards, and was considered another “hit job” on a popular…

Surely you’ve heard of the Summerhill bar and restaurant in Crown Heights? When the owner, a 31-year-old white Canadian named Becca, opened this paean to gentrification (“booze,” “creative sandwiches”) over the summer she decided to put in fake bullet holes as part of the decor. This was not met with enthusiasm by…

That hand hat is a Philip Treacy, who does tons of hats/fascinators for women to wear at royal weddings. The head the hand landed on belongs to Jade Parfitt, who’s a model.

Oh no, I didn’t mean that at all! What I meant was that Judaism is not a proselytizing religion so if you’re not Jew-ish or Jewish attending a couple of bar/bat mitzvahs does not a Jewish person make. I’ve known a few people who’ve converted to Judaism and it’s not easy. It’s not like how you can walk into an…

It can be pretty good. I usually make my own. I was wondering how anyone could produce almost three pounds of lemon meringue pie and ship it around the country for $7 and wanted to order one but the link isn’t working. I should probably be grateful, right?

They’re not all in the Big Ten?

She’s attacked constantly by Native American groups (who do not tend to vote Republican or join Tea Party movements) on this very issue. Her “grandpappy” told her she got “high cheekbones” because of their Cherokee heritage. This is incredibly offensive. I’m about as white as any character on “Downton Abbey” (except…

I love Elizabeth Warren, I’d love to see her as President, but the whole Cherokee thing is going to sink her chances. They put up with that in Massachusetts but the rest of the country is not so forgiving.

In my family we keep the crazy at bay but a couple of distant members have gone to the dark side. We all love each other and see each other a lot at family reunions. At the last one a little girl (I can’t describe our relationship; a step-niece married her father and she came with?) came up to me and we got chatting.…

I once hosted a Thanksgiving and it was somewhat of a disaster, thanks to the new apartment we bought and its crappy oven, that we’ve since replaced.

This is absolutely sickening. Fifty-nine thousand people displaced by a devastating earthquake who sought refuge in one of the wealthiest countries on earth with a population of 323 million.

I regret that I have but one star to give for that video. I did indeed sing along, even my dog joined in at one point with a couple of enthusiastic “awrooos.”

It could be that in Maryland it’s just more common to have mayoral form of government, and when you have a mayor you are a city, even if the whole population could fit into a couple of school buses. 

An excellent comment AND username.

Forget the paper trail, I’d kill for one of those semi-circular brown leather sofas. I’d even sleep with Steve Minutian.

Ossoff was an amateur when it comes to draining the public treasury to “create” new, private sector jobs. Andrew Cuomo, who to the astonishment of most New Yorkers seems to be willing to run for president, gave us Solar City! This is from wikipedia, and expectations have since been reduced, though the costs have…