Not only is a hot dog a sandwich, it is a frankfurter sandwich, as in a sandwich such as was eaten in Frankfurt, Germany. Note the parallel to the hamburger sandwich, such as may have been customarily eaten in Hamburg, Germany.

All this makes me miss the Church of the Subgenius, and the brilliant book High Weirdness by Mail. Also makes me miss mail.

Well, it wouldn’t be uninhabited then, would it?

One of Umberto Eco’s tenets of Ur-Fascism is this:

They’ve always been, and continue to be, the best villains. This despite Richard Basehart’s wonderfully sympathetic Nazi in Escape of the Birdmen in 1971.

Just want to give a shoutout to the screenwriter of Mysterymen, Neil Cuthbert. And critics really should get in the habit of crediting the writer when quoting memorable lines. It’s not like the actors make them up. And when actors do make them up (as in Taxi Driver) they usually stink.

Excuse me... that’s “bellwether”, the sheep (or “wether”) that wears the bell, or leads the flock. Sorry, go on...

I’m looking forward to a debate, should Cuomo consent to a debate. As a seasoned, professional performer, Nixon would be comfortable in front of an audience, while Cuomo may come off as excessively scripted and tense. On the other hand, of course, she may come off as glib and uninformed, or just parroting catchphrases.…

[I don’t think he saw the /s... or maybe forgot his own]

Welllll... yes and no. There are actually a variety of approaches to teaching math. I’m old and went to a French school, so I memorized times-tables and had to learn how to do mental arithmetic in the 3rd grade. But there are different approaches that are perfectly valid. I don’t know New Math or Common Core, so I…

Maybe because I used to cycle in NYC, but I have a bell for nice pedestrians and an air horn (an Airzound) for cars. Quite startling. You have to take into account that when you use the air horn, everyone will stop and look around, which might cause further delays.

Turn signals? What are those?

Hey, there. It’s not just getting a new phone, it’s telling his assistant to transfer his contacts. So... quite an inconvenience.

That is so great that you take your kids to vote! I can’t remember exactly (it would have been about 50 years ago...) but I don’t think my dad took me to vote (my mom was Canadian and didn’t become a US citizen until I was an adult). It should be a whole thing...

I was going to point this out... glad I checked. Yes, I’d order a “pair of ales”. I once asked (this was the 80s) if I could get a single, and got a long, puzzled look. So I gave in and got the pair.

Thanks for the dry humor. I needed the laugh.

Those of us actually from NYC know Trump well. Just for me, I always suspected that Trump and the Trump Org are distinct entities. He doesn’t run the Org - it is run by a cadre of professionals that seem to know what they’re doing. When they let DJT do anything, he made a mess of it and lost a ton of dough. That’s why…

Houses are nice.

It is often said that we can only break the political deadlock in this country if more people from cities move to less-populated areas. So consider Kansas or Iowa. Your $$$ will go further, and your vote will matter more. You can be the seed of a different culture.

Well, maybe old, but not “really” old. When I was 12, I collected enough Green Stamps for a desk set: blotter, pencil cup, letter opener. I did homework on that blotter for years. And my family used to go to the HoJo on Times Square. I remember fondly the “french roll” that they put the frankfurters on: sort of a…