That Kurt Vonnegut story is amazing. He had a well-known, and well-deserved, reputation for being extremely...prickly. I’m surprised the fratty douchebro wasn’t turned into a pillar of salt.

Barbara Ehrenreich was a regular contributor to The Atlantic for years, her last appearing in 2014 it looks like; her stuff was always great. (She’s still alive, just FYI.) She probably had a cover story or many.

Including, one assumes, some of his relatives.

One of my sisters went on the wedding circuit in the late 80s and early 90s and when she wasn’t a bridesmaid that was basically her go-to wedding ensemble. I should know; I was at many of those weddings myself and I’ve seen ALL the photos. Maybe Hope was heading out the door to attend a wedding which theme was “come…

Was this Down East in Maine? July is a lot more tolerable in Maine than it is in, say, Miami, but still that doesn’t sound like fun.

You can rent the Circus Maximus? I know there’s not much left of it and it’s not the tourist draw that the Colosseum is, but...Although I think I read that people book weddings at Versailles, which you would imagine wouldn’t bode well for a long, happy marriage.

I bet (WITH NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER) that post-White House Barack Obama is fine without honorifics.

I bet Barack would be fine, put the guy at ease, general chit chat, maybe Mr. Milton is a basketball fan, maybe he even plays, so they could talk about that. It is Michelle I’d be terriified of (but not in a bad way.)

As someone who speaks German as a second language I read the article because I rarely have cause to speak or read anything in German (I’ll be reading the German press about the European elections, but I don’t follow German politics or soccer or pop culture.)

I think I would enjoy Taylor Swift doing a cover of the Eurythimcs’ “Sex Crime.”

So here’s my usual, perhaps naive, question: What happened to you to get banned? Anything? Anything at all?

Just adding to your insights:

I think I know why you don’t drink red wine anymore: it’s the tannins. I was at my local wine store once and happened to mention that I can’t drink red wine anymore, and the owner theorized that my metabolism had changed and didn’t like the tannins anymore. It has something to do with the barrels that red wine is kept…

By the way, it’s over on Splinter. I hope this screenshot displays. Note how two comments of its (different usernames) are in the black. I guess the great graying is working out! This must be a Gawker/GMG/G/O employee.

How does the adult (I assume adult?) child of a judge get any survivor’s pension at all? Do you know? I know that surviving spouses can get them, but do they really continue on to the next generation? That’s one sweet labor contract.

It worked for me. We’ve been together for almost 32 years. Not a typo, we were broke and fresh out of college, that’s why we were roommates. And our anniversary is in August, so there is something to that instinct, “It’s 90 degrees in this un-air conditioned rathole of an apartment. Let’s hop into bed together and…

I miss the days when TomatoTroll made up usernames that were obscure tomato-related references and it was somewhat of a guessing game to figure out if it was TomatoTroll or a random loony blown in after seeing something on someone’s Facebook. I also miss Richard Lawson, especially his RHONY recaps, and Caity Weaver,…

Copies of the Bible move pretty briskly.

Few seem to be commenting and I’m done with my work for the day so let me comment further about the trailer.