I’m also a gay white man, a little younger than you, and I’m just curious. Do you remember the first time you heard of AIDS? I do, vividly. My boyfriend at the time (who went on to die of AIDS long after we broke up) told me a friend of his told him about something called “gay cancer” and the thought was it might have…

Kind of. It could be the bestseller of all of 2018. Amazon reports that the bestselling book of 2017 was a children’s book called “Wonder,” and B&N has “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” as the nonfiction bestseller of 2017.

The GOP members of Congress would read the index, if it has one, to see if they’re in it. Steyer’s wasting his money. Hundreds of thousands of kindles in Federal Washington must already have it.

Lactose intolerance? My greatest fear. I smoked for a long time but I think giving up cheese would be harder for me than giving up cigarettes.

I know Pennsy (as of five months ago I do anyway) but have you ever been to Pizza Suprema? It’s just south of Penn, across the street at 31st St. It’s a little pricey but not outrageous, the slices are huge and it’s some of the best pizza in New York.

You did?! Apparently I can only juggle about 20,000 “celebrity” news notes in my mind at any one time. Now that the Putin/Deng intel has moved in once again I wonder what it has displaced?

One of the good things about living in the godless Socialist hellhole that is NYC is we provide free breakfasts and (recently) free lunches for all public school kids.

I didn’t know about the Putin connection! I heard that supposedly an affair or an infatuation or something with the Right Reverend Tony Blair, the High Vicar of Islington, of all people, is rumored to precipitated her divorce.

I think you’re right. I recently started going into an office near there sometimes and the employees warned me about it on my first day when I asked about lunch options. They call it The-Shooting-Gallery-In-More-Ways-Than-One. There’s also a really nasty pizza place (La Famiglia. Horrible pizza and it’s a chain; why…

One of my favo(u)rite Britishisms is “whingeing” (pronounce win-jing.) It means “whining.”

This is very pedantic of me but my inner geography nerd cannot let this go:

I had to google her myself and thought the Universidad Iberoamericana was interesting. It’s a very prestigious Jesuit school, certainly more prestigious than UNC. Wiki’s a little vague but reading between the lines it sounds like she did a semester abroad or something.

Don’t you think they all sat down and ate and didn’t wait for Bannon to show up, because does he look like he ever eats solid food? I think all his many carbs come from a plastic bottle of off-price vodka.

I’ve been to that one and it’s not as bad as this one, which is a block north of Penn Station in New York. It’s looking especially photogenic here but once you step through its golden arches you’ll discover a world of sleepy heroin users. There was a shooting here a while back; it was shocking that anyone had the…

Or, this bucolic riverfront retreat in Ossining feels like a world away from Manhattan but is less than an hour from Grand Central on Metro North (Don and Betty Draper lived in Ossining in the early 1960s.) If NY AG Schneiderman gets his way Jared may wind up here, whether he likes it or not.

Good to know! I knew it wasn’t the DC Metro because the platform floor didn’t have those pulsing disco lights that signal the approach of a train.

Have you ever heard the term “cave dweller”? It refers to rich residents of Kalorama who’ve been there for generations, the houses get passed down from parent to child. They’re called “cave dwellers” because they’re especially clique-y and seldom seen, and are somewhat appalled that powerful people in government get…

Pence describes himself as a born-again Catholic, whatever that is. I think he means extremely conservative, absolutely no pre- or extramarital sex, abortion, birth control, homosexuality, etc.

I did not know that! I wonder why. I’m old enough to remember (as a high schooler) reading that the 1980 election featured three candidates who all claimed to be born-again or devout Christians. People believed it about Carter, I believe it to this day about Carter; John Anderson played along; and former SAG union…

Let me bring this up again! Jason Chaffetz’s father’s first wife was Kitty Dukakis (she’s not his mother.) Young Jason was the Utah co-chairman of the Dukakis ‘88 presidential campaign, so no hard feelings I guess. This is one of my favorite pieces of political trivia.