It’s also very common in people with HIV/AIDS. It’s awful because it makes swallowing painful and makes speaking difficult.

You wouldn’t have had much choice in the Presidential election of 2016. They were all over 65, except for Gary Johnson, who was 63 I believe. Nancy Pelosi is 77, Diane Feinstein just announced another Senate bid and she’s 83, Chuck Schumer is 67, Elizabeth Warren is 68. The somewhat youthful face of the party (and as…

I like to troll my husband at every opportunity and recently pointed out that our dog is not American. He was incredulous, because the dog was born in America and has lived here all his life. I said, “Yes, it’s true, he can’t vote, he can’t serve on a jury, he can’t hold an American passport. He can serve in the…

Off topic, but over on Jezebel’s Saturday Night Social someone brought up the topic of pushed ads and why people were getting them/scary how everyone’s emails are being read for ad targeting purposes. Here’s the banner ad I got for clicking on this. Maybe the “Weekly Standard” has delved more deeply into white…

A week after my father-in-law’s funeral and things had settled down my husband and I returned to visit his mother, and she said, “Daddy wanted you to have this.” They both got a little teary as she handed over a Crown Royal bag. It’s where he kept his watch.

Speaking of taxpayer-funded stadiums, there was story somewhere in the Gizmodo universe about the new American embassy in London. Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets and now the US Ambassador to Great Britain, remarked, rather callously, that its cost was a bargain at $1 billion, since the stadium where the Jets play…

I also forgot “silos” and “silo-ing.”

You should take this conversation off-line and circle back with your learnings and key understandings re: how to play in the monetized multi-platform digital sandbox. Is it a space you want to inhabit and dominate, or would it enhance revenue more to cultivate or colonize new consumers with sticky allegiances to…

I have now!

Did you ever see this piece from Samantha Bee’s show? The correspondent goes to Scotland to get reactions about Trump’s golf course. Tears streaming down my face (of laughter.)

The article says it was first performed in blackface in Boston in 1857 (seems unsurprising now of course but at the time Boston was a hotbed of abolition sentiment) but it was written by someone who was either in Georgia or California. “Dashing through the snow/In a one horse open sleigh...”

Eric Schneiderman, the New York State Attorney General, is America’s last best hope. He’s also awfully good looking for a guy who’s going to turn 63 in a couple of weeks and he’s single.

I had not heard of the Russian proverb but knew this (very sexist) quote from Samuel Johnson:

If you read your Constitution you would know that the very wise Founding Fathers decreed that members of Congress shall observe Ugly Christmas Tie Day on the third Friday of December.

I will try to remember that Alabama is subsidizing New York later this morning when I squeeze onto a crowded subway car in a city with pretty close to twice the population of the entire state of Alabama. I sometimes have to transfer (subway is crumbling; it’s over a century old) to a train that terminates in the Wall…

I don’t know if protection at the White House is at the president’s discretion, I can’t imagine it is, but as a lowly go-fer many, many years ago I was escorted into the White House twice, and I think each time it was by a member of the Armed Services. Marines I think? Although why would Marines be stationed at the…

Not as much as I’m dating myself with my misreading that you wrote the Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr.) That I could believe, so I googled and learned that he’s still alive, is now a born-again Christian, and is active in preventing reruns of his show from airing because on those episodes he drinks wine and makes mild…

Horses around the world must have been horrified by that video. That horse is too small for him, for one thing, and what he’s doing with the reins is probably causing that horse some mouth pain because it doesn’t look like the bit is in right and he doesn’t know how to handle reins. But since the horse doesn’t weigh…

“Graduate degree” encompasses a lot. Roy Moore himself has one; he graduated from the University of Alabama’s law school.

This is the first White House without a pet since the Polk administration: