Pre-9/11 my office building would periodically ask that employees show work IDs to get past the lobby. This would last for a week or two and then everyone would ignore it. It was a farce, you never needed your work ID for anything, the floors were open and there was no cafeteria or anything. Out of carelessness I used…

I have posted this little anecdote before. I actually drove into Canada from rural Vermont along rural roads and didn’t show any ID, because I got lost and the trees didn’t seem to care. Only when I got to a gas station was I told that I was “abroad” and I turned around and snuck back into America. Like Ted Cruz.

Shortly after 9/11 (“The Day That Changed Everything Forever”) I was at a small regional airport far, far away from either coast and we were standing around waiting to board our little puddle jumper. All of us were forced to go behind a screen and be given the once-over by the newly-empowered Blart-like rent-a-cops.…

It might be difficult in Boston. There was a big fire at the City Hall records office at some point, maybe 1950s or 1960s, and we never had any proof that my grandmother was actually born in Boston. But when we needed the proof (late 1970s) everyone remembered this event and were like “yes, of course, why would you…

It might have. My grandmother’s bible, which was her parents’, had everyone’s names written in, mine included, and those of my nieces and nephews. I can’t remember which of my siblings has it but I should ask if they’re keeping up this tradition.

Of course I will vote for Hillary over any of the Republicans in the clown car but your argument has a couple of flaws.

Septuagenarian Jewish Socialists are not known for their fashion sense. Believe me.

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.