His xenophobia is repugnant (especially for someone in NYC real estate, which as we all know is built with laborers who might or might not be legally entitled to work in the US, thank you Ireland, Erin Go Bragh!) But he’s not an ideologue. The weird anti-women stuff aside he doesn’t have some evangelical Christian…

It’s funny you should say that and I know my party-going exploits are of endless fascination to all.

My sympathies. Here in New York they renamed a stretch of the West Side Highway for Joe DiMaggio and the Cross County for Jackie Robinson and the Triborough for Robert F. Kennedy and the Queensboro for Ed Koch. I don’t think we have anything named after Ronald Reagan, and I don’t think anyone here would welcome the…

I was at a party recently (half my posts start with “I was at a party recently…” I swear I am a productive member of society) and got chatting with some Brits about Jeremy Corbyn. I said, “If I were British I would be a member of the Labour Party.” And they told me I looked like someone who’d be a Parliamentary…

I hope it’s one of the crazy candidates’ crazy relatives who is usually kept under lock and key but will emerge soon enough to let her freak flag fly.

It must be hot in Simi Valley right now. And that room was probably really hot unless they had the air conditioning cranked. Why is this guy dressed like he’s about to tap a maple during Vermont’s sugaring season?

And wasn’t it revealed that Marco Rubio’s parents did not flee Castro’s godless Cuba by the skin of their teeth but were middle- or upper class and just kind of left during the Battista regime? Kind of in the same way that the von Trapps did not actually climb the Alps to get out of Austria but loaded all their crap…

I would remind JEB! that seven years ago almost to the day under his brother’s watch we were in the middle of a financial crisis, Morgan Stanley declared bankruptcy, and the Dow dropped something like 2,000 points. That was a little nail biting.

That’s fabulous. What’s it from?

God, he died 11 years ago? Seems like it was last month. Time flies when you’re venerating the elders.

Friends of mine were just up in Cooperstown over Labor Day weekend. Had I the ability to predict the future I would have asked them to pick up a replacement glass for you.

I never realized there was a Ronald Reagan Blvd. but it turns out there are several!

Good choice. I think arsenic is supposed to be oder- and flavorfree. I forgot to pick up hemlock from my local Obama Death Panel Clinic so I just went to bed and skipped the whole thing.

I had a boss who was a native Roman who used to conduct business in Italian and apparently “Salve”, as a salutation, is not appropriate in the workplace. I tried it on him and I got the malocchio. On the other hand he kissed me more that once (he is straight and I’m a guy) and this didn’t raise an eyebrow.

We will have to recreate “The March on Rome,” like the good (homo) Fascists that we are. The anniversary is coming up, I think it was late October in the 1920s, maybe 1922?

She’s really one of those “failing upward” types that I wouldn’t allow to walk my dog. I wouldn’t take her failures so personally if I didn’t know several people who were among the 30,000 who were laid off and several more who had HP stock in their retirement funds that went into the toilet, ensuring that they will be…

I consider myself a feminist (a male, gay one) and to paraphrase the cliché, “some of my best bosses were women.” What she did to HP was horrific. Trump has his several bankruptcies behind him so LOL about his business prowess but Fiorina is not far behind.

This is still astonishing to me. I know there are parts of the world (not the parts of the world that I would want to live in) where relatives have to provide bedding and food for relatives in the hospitals, or what pass for hospitals.

This conversation with all of you who actually know what you’re talking about, as opposed to me, has been really eye opening for me and I hope for the rest of the Jezebel readership. Now I’m realizing that stethoscopes are like what knives are to chefs and tools are to carpenters and mechanics and anyone else who has…

When I was in high school we had a guy transfer in our senior year. He was gregarious enough but we didn’t get a chance to get to know him very well because about two weeks after arrival he died from cardiac arrest, I think he had undiagnosed arrythmia or something.