The thing is any viable democracy needs to have an intelligent, informed opposition. Britain right now is going through the reverse of us, with the Lib/Dems imploded and probably never coming back to life and the Labour Party trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing.

I don’t know where to leave this anecdote but I’ll leave it with you.

I only recently realized what they were (and I think the fad has passed.) I remember the first time I was trapped in traffic and there was a Mom and Dad and six kids and two dogs and two cats cutouts. I maneuvered around to the left to pass them (their “car” was the size of a McMansion) but then got trapped and I…

The snout! So adorable. I see he wants to move you off that keyboard so he can go on canine tindr or something?

I have never dated a narcissist or a sociopath but I had a roommate who was definitely clinical. He would fight with the utility companies because he thought their rates were ridiculous and HE was not about to get ripped off like that. So his home phone would get turned off and we’d lose our electricity occasionally.…

My right sideburn turned gray when I was 9 or 10! And then I went almost completely gray in my late 20s. But I’m a gay guy so I was known as The Silver Fox, and it wasn’t a big deal for me. My parents went gray in their late 20s/early thirties. I still have a lot of hair and for men that’s really the big thing, it can…

I love the House of Mirth, it’s one of my favorites. It’s actually very funny in places, like when Lily is on the train back to New York and chatting up a potential suitor and one of her louche friends wanders down the aisle and says something like “Oh Lily, I’m dying for a cigarette, you don’t have any left do you?”…

Late to the game, as always. Have you ever read Robert Harris’s Fatherland? It takes place (mostly) in Berlin in the 1960s if Hitler had won the war.

You can marinate chicken in bourbon and then when you barbecue the chicken (or throw it in a crock pot, why not?) it’s really tasty. Cooking it burns off the alcohol so you can give it to children. Maybe not someone in AA (taste triggers) but definitely children, it’s non-alcoholic after being cooked.

I’m actually going to be in the Dakota neighborhood tonight. It’s supposed to be a beautiful evening and we’re going to this Mexican restaurant that my husband and friends and I love. If I see Yoko tossing stuff out one of her many, many Dakota apartment windows I will report back.

I don’t think AME is as unforgiving about suicide as, for one example, the Catholic Church, with its prohibition against suicides being buried in Catholic cemeteries. And I think that prohibition was lifted. Sad all around, suicide. That 28-year-old could have easily lived another 50 or 60 years. RIP Ms. Bland.

Her ex-husband Sonny Bono was a beloved mayor of Palm Springs and represented the district in Congress as a Republican for a few years. I think Cher should get into politics. Imagine having her sweeping in to your local school board meeting. Or on C-SPAN2 arguing the merits or demerits of a minor spending item in the…

I think Yoko Ono is also a painter, actually. I don’t have any paintings lying around that I can cut up and throw out my window, I’m a total philistine, but maybe doing this gives Yoko a sense of release? The next time I’m wandering by the Dakota I’ll be on the watch for canvas shreds.

Maybe, except I think I would have to live with them, and I maintain a very erratic sleep schedule. I’m a writer and I don’t think they’d enjoy me getting myself and the child(ren) up at 2 AM and passing out at 3 in the afternoon.

I belong to a Dead Pool. You get points based on the person’s age minus 100. I’m going to put Yoko on my list for 2016.

Hi collier. I’m with you but I’m a guy. My husband, who is also a guy, hates air conditioning so in the summer we have to sleep in different rooms. I worked in a building that was kept Arctic cold in the summers. Heaven for me, but Hell for lots of women I worked with, who wore shrugs and cardigans in August.

By zet’s office I meant vet’s office, obviously. So I take it your cat will live to fight another day? Say hello to him or her for me, and for my crazy black Lab puppy, who loves cats and doesn’t understand why they don’t like him back, even though he’s ten times bigger than they are and probably wouldn’t like t be…

I feel sad for adults who don’t enjoy being around children. I don’t like children acting out in restaurants (see my first post; I try to be helpful where I can) but I was in a restaurant a while ago and a kid was screaming, too far away from me to grab him and calm him down, and my lunch companion made a crack about…

I’m sure this little girl heard “stupid” and “ugly” from someone other than her parents. They were lovely people, aside from the fact that they didn’t know how to deal with a toddler in a crowded restaurant in Manhattan.

I was happy to do it. And a couple of the guys I was with have children, but boys, so they’re not used to dealing with little girls, like I am. I think the parents sensed we were gay men so they felt a little more comfortable handing over a female toddler to me, without fear of molestation. To this day I don’t know…