One major difference between them - and it may make a difference in sales, particular of any repeat market if there is one - is that Celine is really a natural live entertainer and Britney, beyond a certain basic dance competency (which she doesn’t seem to be able to summon up consistently), isn’t. Because my husband…

If you can’t see the differences between Republicans and Democrats, you don’t have a vagina.

Only because it seems right for both the house and the time of year, how about a little Shirley Jackson?

Real talk. Barbara Bush is the most saavy Bush there is. That broad is terrifying and also very badass.

When you are spurned so thoroughly by an institution in which you have placed so much of yourself, it can break you to the extent that you lose your beliefs.

It has the unnerving effect of making her look like a highly idealized drawing of a 35 year old.

Ah, youth, indeed - saw it some 50+ times at the old TLA in Philadelphia, 1979-87 or so.

I WAS WONDERING THE SAME DAMN THING.

Hey, there - respect. The woman is 82. Once you pass 60 or so, you know you’re going to outlive people. And she’s working, probably (just because she wants to keep living like Joan Collins) because she needs to. And she looks fabulous.

There are very few images, but the ones that have been smuggled out are as bad or worse as one’s imagination paints them. This one’s less heartbreaking than most.

Oh god. We all know this is going to end up in so many abandoned children...

Yup, as far as I’m concerned, YouTube is for old B movies, episodes of What’s My Line?, and fabulously tacky musical numbers from old Egyptian movies and The Hollywood Palace. Personalities? No, thank you.

After a number of tries (I’m supposed to eat more salmon, says my doctor), I finally got it right this week. The folks here saying go with oven baking over stovetop have it right, and I highly recommend this Martha Stewart recipe for mustard glazed salmon, which despite however much you might recoil at the name is…

That’s what I’m talking about!

You get me. Simply the best.

Ok now tell me the story of “What Not to Wear” - because I really miss that show!

I’m surprised it was set up so that she’d get Champagne all over herself. If I remember rightly from videos of various royals christening ships, there’s usually some sort of device that keeps the christener (as it were) at a decent remove from flying bits of broken glass and spumes of angry bubbly.

I’ve been really surprised, as I make major life changes following open-heart surgery, how chill my docs are about salt. They’re all about avoiding carbs and pretty much advocate going paleo, but my senior doctor, at our last appointment, told me I should probably up my sodium intake (to something still below the…

Like Narnia for shut-ins.