At least the Washington Post ran a story like this, this time. In early 1998 Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post, sat on the Monica Lewinski story and it made its way to the Drudge Report, a little known news aggregator with a tiny audience. Matt Drudge has never looked back. According to its own website, the…

A propos of nothing, I just have to repeat this: Before Kitty Dukakis married Michael Dukakis she was married to Jason Chaffetz’s father. They divorced, Kitty went on to marry Michael and Jason’s father went on to marry Jason’s mother. Jason Chaffetz was the director of Dukakis’ Utah campaign in 1988.

Trump has said many times that China is playing us for fools, taking all our money and dumping all their crap on us, even though his is among the crap. I’m pretty sure his base thinks that everyone Asian is “Chinese.”

I always assumed Billy Bush was the son of one of W’s brothers but no, he’s 44 and is the son of one of HW’s brothers, Jonathan, who is 85. So W and Jeb! are his cousins, not his uncles. Billy’s a little long in the tooth to be pulling this kind of frat boy stuff.

Isn’t that how magnets work though? One force (Trump) is positively attracted to the force that is negatively (not getting paid for it) “attracted”?

I lost the ability to post from my desktop a couple of months ago. I think it’s because my browser was old. I wrote the “help” desk a couple of times and heard nothing. It was too bad, I’d been using that account for three or four years, I was in the black, loved taking people out of the grays, had a couple dozen…

To add: vets (at least my vets) are very reluctant to put animals under anesthesia because the science behind it is not nearly as clear-cut as it is for humans. The only time my previous dog ever got cleanings was when she had to go under for something else anyway. And yes, that dog was completely stoned when we…

Oh God, Trump Magazine. Oh God. You have a good memory.

They’re back! They had one last Friday and the Friday before that!

This would make an excellent Pissing Contest. The best true names that you’ve ever come across. It could be called the Engelbert Humperdinck Invitational Open.

I briefly had a roommate while waiting for my boyfriend (now my husband) to move to NYC. One of the reasons the ads stay with me so vividly is because I’d be at the sink doing dishes and he’d come home and I’d say, “Oh hey, X, you’re home early, did—-” “Suck and fuck and cook and clean! That’ll be your daily routine!”…

How many people, men and women, were wearing Eddy’s exact same outfit at the Republican National Convention? Quite a few, I’d bet.

Your parents had quite a sense of humor! I went to school with a poor kid whose name was Richard (after a grandfather) Seamus (after another grandfather) Biggs. He went by Richard Biggs, but at some point one of us adolescents figured out his name was Dick S. Biggs, which we thought was HIGH-larious.

Did you live in New York in the 90s and watch Channel 35? The Robin Byrd Show? Midnight Blue? I still remember those 900 ads so vividly 25 years later. One went, “Suck and fuck and cook and clean! That’ll be your daily routine!” (Dominatrix line for men.) Another one was “900-[forgot the exchange]-PEEE. The extra E is…

Sadly not, he died about a decade ago. But the eternal questions, “Who am I? Why am I here?” live on. I wonder if Admiral Stockdale read the Existentialists. The search for meaning in a meaningless world. I wonder if he ever read “The Plague,” set in a different former French colony, Algeria instead of Vietnam.

I once took this intensive immersion class in Italian (no English allowed, three hour lessons two days a week.) In the first lesson we were somehow made to understand that we were going to learn how to pronounce Italian vowels by repeating this phrase over and over until we got it right:

But the Winklevossi are (were?) kind of hot:

I love “The House of Yes” and I don’t know many people who ever saw it, and those who did hated it. I am so glad I am not alone in my devotion. I think this weekend I’ll try to find it and watch it for the umpteenth time.

Late in their marriage Jackie bought a small estate somewhere in Virginia and spent a lot of time there overseeing every detail of the house and grounds, in an attempt to salvage the relationship. Jackie had high hopes for the house as a retreat where they could be together with the kids. JFK spent exactly one weekend…