I had a kind of similar experience. I’ve already disclosed my own shameful 9/11 story elsewhere.

Me. Today. I was preoccupied, my mother-in-law is sick and my husband is up there with her, I’m scrambling for work, I had a fairly important business prospecting lunch that I was worried about, there was a suspected gas leak in the building, my dog decided that he wasn’t housetrained anymore so I ran him outside.…

A belated Happy Birthday! I coupled off with my now-husband a little over a week before you were born. Yes, I’ve been “married” (we’re gay, so only recently really married in the eyes of the law, if not in the mind of deranged theocrat Kim Davis) slightly longer than you’ve been alive.

David “Diapers” Vitter is still the senior Senator from Louisiana.

Do you happen to know if there is a comprehensive list of all the Gawker Media sub-blogs somewhere? I can see why they’re divvying up all this content but it’s almost imposssible to keep up with it all. I knew backtalk is around but I’ve never gone there and I keep forgetting it exists.

That “democracy is the worst form of government” is a Churchill quote. I can’t remember it myself but he said it in the House of Commons after World War II, presumably as a rebuke to the Soviet Union and the “elections” being held in Eastern Europe. Churchill also gave us the term “Iron Curtain.”

That Benghazi gif is the best. I am hoping to see Bernie nominated next year but if I were working on the Hillary campaign I would spend all my waking hours trolling the dark corners of the Internet looking for references (today is the third anniversary by the way) and posting that gif in reply.

I love that your comment was posted using the handle “the reincarnation of Elvis.” Why no Elvis holograms? Half the world it seems thinks he’s the greatest singer who ever lived. I might go see a hologram performance of that!

I wonder, with Bobbi Kristina dead, who is going to benefit from this shameless hucksterism? The perpetually outraged Cissy? The unhinged Bobby Brown? Cousin Dionne Warwick, the Psychic Friends spokesmodel? Thelma Houston, who is not even related to Whitney Houston?

I’ve never gotten that one, and I’m a dog owner!

It really is a serious question I have. A lot of news websites I go to have these pushed ads so that when you go to the link the content moves down the screen or disappears entirely while the ad appears. Has anyone on earth ever been persuaded to do anything but throw their hands up in rage while experiencing this?…

The only thing that would make this YouTube clip better would be if the commercial weren’t as long as the clip itself. Has anyone in the history of YouTube been persuaded to do anything by something they saw on a YouTube intro ad?

Because I am time traveling and am really living in 1955 I make Baked Alaska all the time! Mine are not Martha Stewart Living-ready but they’re actually kind of fun to make and pretty easy. The meringue can be a little tricky though.

Ex son-in-law Levi Johnston posed for Playgirl but I think that was after he left Bryystle or whatever the daughter’s name is.

We had some renters move into our building and they saw someone’s mezuzah case and asked where they could get one. They had to be told that it’s not like a decorative door knocker or wall plaque, it actually has some religious significance…

I’ve often thought that Tina Fey deserves the Congressional Medal of Freedom for doing so much to save us from a Sarah Palin Vice Presidency.

Apparently on Judge Judy she can. Relatives sue each other all the time.

When we bought our apartment we had a housewarming with the proviso NO GIFTS. But we got some anyway, all of them very thoughtful and not ridiculously expensive. One of the things we got was a cheese set that was a slate carving board and three small cheese knives, because different cheeses need different knives? Hell…

Let me just go on the record and say that as someone who has gone to a ton of weddings, my favorite registries are the ones where people set up “fund my honeymoon” accounts. Happy to do it! I usually opt for a night or two’s lodging, because how romantic to snuggle in somewhere you really want to go. Plus I’m old…

I went to school with a guy named Richard Long. He was Dickie Long for a while, then Dick Long, and then around fifth grade someone must have clued him in and he’s been Richard Long ever since.