Just do what Marissa Mayer did at Yahoo. Forbid people from telecommuting, and if employees must reproduce, take a long weekend and then get back to work, installing a personal day care center in the office next to yours.

With (American) Thanksgiving coming up: Have you ever made turkey hash? So good, and a great way to get rid of the shards of meat clinging to what’s left of the bird.

More like the gross ribbon candy that gets passed around during White Elephant Secret Santa.

If you can read lips silent movies are more enjoyable. The actors liked to crack each other up, to see who could break character first, so there might be a scene in which the heroine says, “O Herbert, I’ll never leave you! Please believe me!” (according to the title card) and what she was really saying was, “I just…

Here in my home office/hoarder’s lair I have a first edition of Middlesex, which I have read twice. But Hottentot Venus is new to me so I accept your challenge. :)

Done deal. Do you want to recommend something to me? We could balance the scales that way.

Just to burden you further with book recommendations, did you ever read E. L. Doctorow’s The March? Another great one, it’s about Sherman’s March during the Civil War. More historical fiction. It’s kind of like The Good Lord Bird in a way, no one is 100% noble, no one is 100% evil, there’s lots of eccentricity, and…

Did you ever read James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird? I’d be curious to hear what you thought of it. I loved it. They should make a movie out of that.

NBC can always bring back Chelsea Clinton. Or move Brian Williams over.

I guarantee you it doesn’t have a Confederate flag decal. Maybe the one down in Palm Beach does.

This election season is more like the Banana Republic clearance rack, where nothing’s your size and everything has a weird, very visible stain on it.

Take that back. I loved The Swedish Chef.

Even if Trump gets 40% of the vote this could be a huge blowout in Hillary’s favor, depending on where that vote is. Walter Mondale got a little over 40% of the vote and only won his home state of MN and DC.

Many, many thanks for introducing me to the concept of a Hitler rating measured in mustaches.

They’re staying in DC though so that Sasha can finish school. The last time a president remained in DC after leaving office was Woodrow Wilson in 1920, and that was basically because he was so incapacitated he couldn’t really be moved very far. This is a supreme sacrifice for the Obama family. Come back to Columbia,…

I think I spot a historical inaccuracy. Wouldn’t Joan Crawford in real life have been wearing driving gloves? I know I would have if I were her.

Off topic, I found out recently that Calvin Coolidge and FDR were not nearly as old as I had assumed they were when they took office for the first time. They were both 51.

I would imagine she’d be the one getting the green card because she’d be pretty desperate to get as far away from Donald’s grabby clutches as possible.

More like twins/siblings of a different mother. Conway is 49, Coulter is 54.