She sings a song of herself. She contains multitudes.

I would normally never indulge in sexism or stereotyping of any kind, especially not on Jezebel, but:

Nice media reference, would give more stars if I could!

She might remember the class action lawsuit brought against the segregated Youngstown school district in the 1970s.

I’m just now reading Richard Norton Smith’s exhaustive biography of Nelson Rockefeller. When Rockefeller was Governor he spent about the same amount of time in Albany as his fellow Governor Ronald Reagan did in Sacramento: not much, because it was so depressing and beside the point.

I am always surprised at how conservative and/or Libertarian all the folks from the Albany area that I’ve met are. And they don’t work for Republican Assembly members or Senators, they’re the rank and file army of the permanent bureaucracy. I guess there’s so much cronyism that even they, like Reagan, feel that…

“He tries so hard, it’s impossible not to admire him. His poor parents though...”

Tell your coworker that someone told you that he was stuck on an eastbound rush hour crosstown bus stuck in the intersection of 9th Avenue and W. 23rd Street with a clear sightline down to the World Trade Center just as the first plane hit and saw the whole thing, having snagged a seat looking south. This person got…

I might consent to be audited if it included a stay at that house. Not a long one, maybe a three-day weekend. With a couple of ski passes. And drinks served promptly at 5 PM. At the outdoor heated spa pool.

Financial hacks are the most disappointing. Never something like, “How to add 0s to your bank balance without the bank suspecting,” always something lame like “If you have two credit card balances, pay off the one with the higher interest rate first.”

Are those dresses slip-covered, or whatever it’s called when you wrap clear plastic around your living room furniture?

There is bilateral US-Canada karma going on here. Just when we are losing our leader, who is both the hottest and the coolest, you have gotten yours.

Have you ever read Gore Vidal’s Julian? I know it’s historical fiction but I thought it was very moving. Gore Vidal thought Christianity was the worst plague ever inflicted upon a great civilization (he had a few choice thoughts on Judaism and Islam, too, of course), which must have been a daring position to take when…

I had to look up Felchville, MA. It’s not a town either, it’s part of Natick. There are lots of these weirdly named microvillages all over New England. Also in MA is Humarock, which is not a town, it’s part of Marshfield, but it has a nice beach and a place called the Sand’s End Cafe.

I designed my home office and there’s a space under the workspace table that runs the length of a wall where I planned to put in a mini-fridge. Put in another outlet and everything. When we moved in, our dog at the time decided she needed to be next to me at all times in this new space and after about a week of her…

I’m always more fascinated by the mundane things about the Royals than the Royals themselves. Interesting about the passport, but when would she arrive anywhere without a vast local entourage to greet her?

This is a long story so skip it but I’ve always thought it was very funny.

I once read a very funny slam against that Duncan Sheikh song “Barely Breathing” that called it the unofficial anthem of soccer Moms nationwide.

One of my coworkers revealed recently that he is a huge fan of a certain 80s hair metal group, to the point where he is a singer/guitarist in a cover band. He knows every word to every song, and their output was vast. Even more astonishingly I’m learning he’s a girl? No wonder he is so close to his wife and three…

Does everyone remember the episode of “Mad Men” when Don and Betty are separated, Don palms Sally off on a nice neighbor so he can go out on a date, and Sally hacks off her hair while at the neighbor’s place? Don brings her home and Betty smacks her a good one and Betty blows up at him. It was a pretty intense one.…