Anybody remember Billy Carter or Roger Clinton? Everybody has some embarrassing relative tucked away somewhere.

Even though the Act of Parliment no longer prohibits a Royal from marrying a Papist, Meaghen is reported to have been baptized into the Church of England in a private ceremony. Better safe than sorry. Or Catholic.

I thought Mingus Lucien Reedus was Russel Crowe’s trainer in Gladiator.

So the dead homeless man wouldn’t have gotten prostate cancer if he had an apartment?

Meantime, it looks like amazon’s highly publicized search for a “second HQ” came not a moment too soon.

It’s a non-profit that can get a few grand for each coffee drinker in California? I should be so non-profit!

Nolan didn’t blow up a hospital. The building they used in Dark Night was the derelict office block for the Brach Candy Company on Chicago’s west side.

Can some NYer tell us in the hinterlands what the contentions are between the NYCers and the Upstaters? I know the issue of paying for repair of the subways is one, but are there others? I know that here in Illinois there are issues between Chicago/Cook County and everyplace else; but I’d like some idea of how they…

Nor has he been convicted of anything.

Meanwhile, about two weeks hence Lifetime Move Channel will release a quickie movie on the case starring Dean Caine as the killer and Dana Delaney as McNamara.

Look at the infamous Hitler Diaries affair. The magazine buying them went to lengths not to do a truly deep authentication, but instead got experts with only peripheral knowledge of the topic. As one editor is claimed to have said, “We’ve paid half a million marks for them. Of course they’re real!”

All the guys we’Re talking about are European or North American. I’m wondering if something like this is occurring in other cultures where the possibility of finding a female companion is getting slim. In India and China sex-selection is producing a great imbalance of men and women demographics. The nerdy or awkward…

Eight months from discovery of the crime to conviction? Seems remarkably fast. I doubt we could do it that quickly in the US. Why are they so efficient?

One presumes the soldier will need lifelong testosterone doses to maintain standard masculine attributes, along with anti-rejection drugs.

Wasn’t there a recent Netflick people feared would promote teen suicide? Any word on the outcome?

Secret societies often have concentric levels of membership. The members of the inner degrees recruit from the more innocent beginner levels. The secret esoteric knowledge revealed only to higher devotees is one of the attractions of committing to deeper involvement. Of course, the finally revealed teaching is either…

It ended with not campaigning in Michigan.

Well, is there a more appropriate period of removal from public life? Six years or six months, or never ever? Hiding in the Hamptons or working in a leper colony? Which crimes are unforgivable: groping, DUI, racial slurs? I’m not trying to bait anybody here; is there any redemption possible, or are we at a one sin and…

I once saw a trial lawyer’s journal that had classified ads for experts. If you needed a toxicologist or a hematologist you could find one listing their education and distinguished professional credits. Many included photos, so you could choose the more fatherly or professorial type. It was like actors sending in…

The piece from the Cut has one person wondering why Matisse didn’t paint anything about WW2 or the Holocaust in the early 40s. Perhaps it was because the aging and sick artist lived in Occupied France, and didn’t want to get shot? As it is, his daughter Marguerite was tortured by the Nazis because of her work with the…