I LOVE the Omni Shoreham. Lucky you. Did you stay there? Did you go to the National Zoo and/or wander over to Adams Morgan or get down to Dupont Circle?

I love that couch in the background of the Pepe LePew gif.

I saw Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” He was excellent. (His role was originally performed by Robert “Bobby” Morse in the 1960s; he went on to play Bert Cooper on “Mad Men.”)

I know how he feels re: Kim Davis. My (gay) husband had a Pentecostal friend whom I despised. The friend needed a place to stay and we had a cluttered extra room in our apartment and we let him stay there for a while. I sucked it up. Life is too short and if people ask you for help you should give it if you can. I…

What is The International Club of DC? Since all the embassies are there when the employees aren’t desperately trying to get up to New York or back home I think the whole city is kind of an international club.

Cruz is not dumb, you’re right about that. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and Alan Dershowitz thought he was one of, if not the most, gifted students he had ever taught.

I have a little friend (the daughter of adult friends of mine) who, every year, wants to dress up like a dog for Halloween. Three years in a row she’s done this, each year a different breed. Luckily they’re very identifiable breeds (dachshund, poodle, dalmation) so there’s something to work from. If she wants to go…

No, but the entitled name is Grantham (the family name is Crawley), and there was a suitor named Gillingham, and the final season is underway in Britain so I wouldn’t be surprised if a Pinkham showed up.

So your full name is Colin Pinkham? How was Downton Abbey? Since you evaded Lady Mary’s homicidal charms and returned in one piece I’m sure you have tales to tell.

During Lent you give up one thing but otherwise go about your daily routine. Lots of people I know use it to try to give up smoking or drinking alcohol or abstain from chocolate or desserts, which is kind of like a health regimen. There used to be a proscription against meat but that was reformed under Vatican 2 and a…

Can you work in the term “30,000”? She basically laid off the equivalent of every man, woman, and child in the town that I grew up in. Thirty thousand people. And it still sent HP into the toilet and the stock plummeting through the basement. I think she’s actually a bigger business failure than Trump. But go ahead.…

Did anyone translate this? I’m not a native born speaker of Spanish but I’m fairly fluent. It says:

There are residences in the Vatican, more than you would think. I think they are now all reserved for Vatican-related personnel and seminarians and novitiates and visiting folks, clergy and nuns and lay people alike. During World War II several embassies from western countries left Rome proper and squeezed in with…

Too lazy and kinja’d out to find this intel, but as a 20-year-old female she was in high admin position in the Nazi death camp machinery? I guess by 1944 German males were kind of hard to find, what with the Total War and all, but still. I’ll have to read the source article. I wonder if it says where she went after…

I’m really late to this, no doubt dozens of people have pointed this out, but what do people think she was telegraphing out and transcribing when messages came in?

Don’t sell yourself short!

They’re already freaking out in New York. He’s going to be transiting in the Popemobile through Central Park, part (or all?) of which will be closed off and only ticket holders let in, and everyone knows he loves to hop out for meet and greets. A reporter asked a security spokesman if it was true that Francis might…

I read Jezebel obsessively and comment two or three times a day, sometimes more. I try to be funny and offer encouragement and provide useful tips and information, I’m almost never negative, to no avail. I almost never post on the Gawker main page but guess what? I’m followed there, and I’m not sure why. Kinja is…

Off topic slightly, where would high speed rail in WI go? Is there a proposal to link Milwaukee to Chicago and then maybe a spur to Madison? This is a sincere question, I love train travel and hate driving. I’ve taken buses in LA so I am hardcore.

Loved “The Company Cookbook.” Somewhere stashed away I have a Junior League cookbook that was produced as a fundraising tool. Beautifully done, recipes from all over the country and from the entire span of the 20th century (it came out in 2000) and it is hilarious. Sometime around 1980 these ladies must have joined…