I’m not a fan of Damien Hirst’s work usually but the piece you linked to is beautiful and oddly moving (to me, anyway.) I was hoping it was here in New York somewhere public but all I could discover was that it was put up for auction in 2016 and went for a little over £1.2 million, below the presale estimate of…

He does seem strangely anti-Semitic for someone who’s the Governor of a state (my state) that has a large Jewish voting base.

Pope Francis is from Argentina. I bet he can tango with the best of them. I’ve never met an Argentine who couldn’t.

Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright went to Wellesley. Also Judith Krantz and Judith Martin. You can do all kinds of things.

My husband’s company provides our health insurance and he pays the employee portion of the premiums. For me alone that’s a little over $600 a month (pre-taxable income.) Granted, it’s gold-plated health insurance, but his company offers no other kind, at least at his high level.

Thirty years ago Maureen Dowd created an algorithm to come up with sometimes nonsensical nicknames for her subjects. For all we know she’s the lead on Microsoft’s “How Can We Make Excel Even More User Unfriendly” team.

Some of the grey comments in the white woman’s lawsuit against the Atlanta Hawks article would fill the mailbag right up.

My university here in the US had quite a few Brits and I think all of them did a Gap Yah. It took me months to figure out that not all British people do Gap Yahs and the Brits were eligible for no financial aid at my pricey private liberal arts college, like the substantial financial aid I got, so I wasn’t exactly…

I appreciate the pedantry. I suppose someone has done research about why we say “in Tottenville on Staten Island” and “in Huntington on Long Island” but “on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.”

New York wishes it could get up to 29% in a primary.

At least he abandoned the bow ties.

Or Berlin 1945. Or Paris 1940. Having a few Spanish-speaking families move to your Pennsylvania town over the course of 20 years seems a tad less disruptive.