Hillary is a huge pseudomedicine enthusiast, and a personal devotee of a complete quack. Trump is probably better on this particular count; I don't know of anything particularly objectionable about him. Unless he appoints that weird childhood friend of his who wrote that medical "report" for the press.

That is a good point, but I think that attending rallies is probably one of the more effective forms of celebrity activism. Rallies mostly work by turning out the numbers, which causes the media and thus presumably legislators to pay attention. And attendees, and people generally, like to see their favorite…

It's actually pretty remarkable that a film that managed to flop with critics, the public, and Coen Brothers fans (I think the Ladykillers remake was the only other one to do so) has managed to amass one of the most intensely devoted (and respectably sized) fandoms of all time. Princess Bride, Fight Club, etc…the list…

Pardon me; I'll be…available again in a few minutes.

That the feller who packed up and took his muffins to America?

Zachary Ty Bryan or GTFO.

Now that was one fellow who was way too country for the city folks to handle!

It's actually an oddly common name for Latin Americans, or at least Puerto Ricans. I always wondered what the story was, but never knew how to go about finding out.

Ah, the hot pink number. Belated tip for non-New Yorkers visiting for our women's march: If you see a dapper gentleman wearing a matching beplumed fedora, take note: He is NOT necessarily approaching you to show solidarity.

Yeah, I said it was cheese frosting! I love cream cheese in cheesecake or on bagels, but for some reason the way they make the frosting I don't like it. I think maybe the plain cheese is fine, but biting into something that has cream cheese flavor and getting texturewise a mouthful of shortening instead of that…

I like you, elderly alt-right Jerry Seinfeld-Spiro Agnew clone mashup as drawn by cyber-Walt Kelly.

America dentata. The stuff of Presidential nightmares.

I think the world could use a lot more anger (provided it facilitates action) about the substantive stuff that needs being fixed, but you are right a lot more chillness about the stuff that is not worth sweating. But I do not understand how if someone exudes mock indignation or anger in complete jest, and his audience…

Carrots are one of my favorite foods. When I was a baby I ate so many mashed-up carrots I turned orange like a carrot! I will actually take any excuse to eat a carrot, so I have given carrot cake many chances and take very seriously the fact that it has so consistently disappointed me. Nonetheless, since I love…

They're good for texture. Not the unexpected "invisible" miracle worker that, say, cottage cheese is in certain goods, but I think a squash quick bread adds a bit of interest. Much better flavorful winter squash, though; pumpkin (not, of course, "pumpkin spice," which is just evocative of the spice you put on pumpkin…

Do most people actually take taste arguments seriously though? I thought most people actually know there's no right or wrong answer to matters of taste and the whole point is just the enjoyment you get from having a bit of fun with "bar arguments" on these topics. Did "River of Dreams" suck? This has not died down as…

Naked and with big long fingernails growing out of his little hands? No. And you're welcome, dinnertime America.

59th Street? What, he's too good for those proles on the Upper East Side?

Still better than The Happening.

I am fiercely pro-zucchini bread, for what it's worth. And I like my rhubarb pie sans strawberry. I'm not such a bad guy, really, I swear.