Wait, who was shoplifting in the small item, camera-free dressing rooms, easily distracted employees having Target? Was it Kim? This I did not know. I heard about the Beverly Hills Hotel meltdown, and really, who among us has not had a similar break while snacking/drinking around the bungalows…

But the Jesuits, the Army of Christ, have always had a “civilizing mission,” it’s why so many boarded the French and Spanish ships that sailed off to the New World and hectored/persecuted the natives. To say nothing of the Spanish Inquisition. Pere Marquette was a Jesuit. Maybe the Pope will reach out and engage in a…

Do you keep CNN on to ensure rapid table turnover? Shrewd business move.

The Donald got married (at least once) at Marble Collegiate, which is Dutch Reformed and vaguely Methodist. He’s probably about as Presbyterian as I am (I am not.)

I wonder if ISIS is going to take one of the Perillo tours. (RIP Mr. Perillo.)

Is he wearing a modified sombrero? Maybe that’s what the gauchos wear in his native Argentina? Put a few feathers and flowers on it and he could wear it to Ascot or to Prince Harry’s eventual wedding.

Because I have no shame I’ll share this: I had the sleeveless T-shirt, white with huge black letters, with “FRANKIE SAYS RELAX” on it. That I wore around. And got complimented on. Pre-Facebook obviously and I don’t think photos exist, thank God.

I, too, have no life, and I wonder if Jen has a second ring that she switches into when the paps aren’t around.

Because I am way too invested in RHOBH I actually have an opinion of ex-”Housewife” Kim Richards and I feel really bad for her. Why get mixed up in that foul mess unless you’re that desperate for money? Is she really being supported financially by her sisters (emotionally supported seems to me to be questionable at…

Police officers here in New York use the term “gentleman” all the time. Whenever I hear it I translate it as “has several prior convictions.”

I used to work with a woman who spent her days walking back and forth to the printer near my desk (she printed all her emails) and she had a perpetual smirk on her face and liked to make eye contact with me. So several times a day it was like she was telegraphing, “Well, WE know what’s really going on, don’t we?”

The holidays will be here before we know it. I have an in-law who’s older than we are (and we’re not young) who’s constantly hitting us up for stuff/money, so I think this will be his Christmas present this year.

Hospitaliano!

Not sure where to leave this so I’ll leave it with you, lucky deerlady.

This has been going on for a while. There’s a term called “involuntary immigrants.” It means slavery.

Québec really never ceases to surprise me. They (you?) went from that closed off, ultra-Catholic, postwar francophone dystopia chronicled so well by Mordechai Richler, when the Jews were hounded out and the language laws really started to take effect and the Bloc Québecois was demanding secession and Charles deGaulle…

You’re probably right. I don’t really know who Jesse James is/was.

The Iron Cross goes back centuries, it wasn’t a Nazi thing.

She was also in one of the strangest and best “teen movies” ever made. It’s called “Ski Party” (1965) and she plays a sidekick, but still, she was there when history was made.

No, Americans. I just adopted the First Nations term because I can’t remember the American way to refer to a bunch of the groups.