In our case, my last name has nine letters and my wife’s has eight, which means that a hyphenated name would be an unwidly 18 characters long.

Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, and her husband, Dan Mulhern, took an interesting approach: Each took the other’s last name as their middle name. Did I mention that both are very bright people?

When we got married, my wife thought I wanted her to change her name, and did so. A year or two later, she decided that she’d like to keep her name. I was fine with that, but I had to file a change of name petition in the Circuit Court. (I’m an attorney, so I filed on her behalf.) The judge, a 60-ish man from the Old…

My family owns a Shore house that almost got destroyed by the storm. The following summer, there was a giant “Stronger Than the Storm” sand sculpture guarded by the local police. The sculpture was later used as part of what was ostensibly a tourism ad but was really a tribute to Chris Christie.

That, and I’d like to see more nominees who didn’t come up through the federal appellate courts. Preferably someone who held elected office at some point in her or his career. The last Supreme Court justice to have held such an office was David Souter (Attorney General of New Hampshire).

When asked about the Badgers’ prospects for next season, the coach expressed Gard-ed optimism.

You can blame me for this. I rarely watch NBA games (our local team is the Pistons), but decided this afternoon’s game was must-see-TV. And, of course, the Warriors decided to lay an egg.

Biden’s greatest-ever line was his description of Rudy Giuliani: “A noun, a verb, and 9/11".