The Democrats have lost the popular vote for the Presidency just once since 1988.

Two queen beds is pretty standard.

Not exactly a classic (it’s from the 1980s) but if you’re learning German there’s a wonderful movie called “Das Schreckliche Mädchen” 9"The Nasty Girl”), about a young woman who goes nosing around after she suspects that some of the people in her peaceful, prosperous small German city might not have had the squeaky…

All of Jacques Tati’s films are great but my favorite is “Playtime.” Have you ever seen that? I think it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen, but I’m not sure younger people might really get it.

That is absurd. I’ve been going to the same vet practice for 20 years (different dogs, obviously) and have seen maybe a half dozen vets there and only once did they vet very sheepishly admit that for some reason she was having trouble finding a vein to draw blood from (dog was a little overweight, and huge) and asked…

I have a black Lab mix, mostly black Lab, and he is the best. Well, like the Weratedog person I think all dogs are 12/10, and I’ve had several, but currently I am team black Lab.

You will go to MoMA for Pop and Surrealism and so much else, and hunt down the two Rothkos and say hello to them for me. They’ve had some of their holdings since they were founded in the 1930s and they’re not going anywhere. It’s free on Fridays from 4--8, but it is MOBBED.

For example I was once asked “what stock would you tell someone to dump right now?”

Just wanted to thank you for alerting this American to what CodCo is. Just watched a couple of clips on YouTube. So funny. There goes my Sunday!

I think this timing is more typical of Times endorsements, and newspaper endorsements generally. For other races the Times either endorses or repeats endorsements the Sunday before a Tuesday election, so it’s fresh in people’s minds. (In the case of the Times, they might as well just save the space and the effort and…

You think the press openly hates Hillary Clinton? Were you shocked by the Times’ endorsement?

I never realized Frank Zappa went through a “Miami Vice” stage.

Love the era-appropriate Star Wars-influenced font in the title sequence.

My dog is named Bradley and the shelter neutered him before they put him up for adoption. So this is where they went.

In 1986 Massachusetts, home of the ornery, passed a referendum to repeal their seat belt law. The legislature passed another seat belt law and in 1994 they had another referendum for repeal, but this time the good voters let it stay. 1994.

New York? I live in New York! Maybe I’ll bump into her on the A train or while buying pita chips and off-brand toilet paper at the local Duane Reade. I’ve always wanted to learn Swedish. Maybe she could teach me how to say, “Could this line move any slower?” or “I wish more people in New York used deodorant.” I’m sure…

In the Shenanigans column under Miscellaneous

Great. My (much) older brother is a huge fan of Christmas music and when I see him at Christmas I always have to bite my lip from laughing when Josh Groban belts out “Fall on your knees” and “O night divine” when “O Holy Night” comes on. Now I’ll have to endure “The Twelve Days of Sex Toys.” As if “six geese a-laying”…

Did you make it to the bar where it’s 1920 again? Did the bartender serve you? I always suspected phantoms are liberal in their drinking policies and wouldn’t really card. Life is for the living, and all...

When I was in college my mother visited me and learned that “Cabaret” was showing at the local $2 movie theater. I had never seen it; she had, many times, and we went. As if that weren’t uncomfortable enough, she would lean over and whisper explanations about every nuance and foreshadowing.