“Cookies with Santa” sounds like something involving a sex worker and exploring boundaries.

Mine is a Friday. +1

I am not a skater but I am a skating fan and I come from a hockey family (how much more fun would hockey games be if players occasionally busted out in double lutzes?)

Health care should be uncoupled from 35+ hours per week corporate employment though. It’s 2016, not 1956. It should be, I don’t know, how about single payer? In the same way that if you don’t work 35+ hours a week at a job and get a W-2 you’re still allowed to send your children to public schools. And childless people…

Jack Dalrymple is an appropriately Dickensian name. Wasn’t that the name of the warden who ran the workhouse where Oliver Twist lived?

All the stars for you for getting the term double lutz into your comment in a way that is appropriate. I’ve been reading Gawker since its infancy and aside from Winter Olympics coverage I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in a comment before. Well done! 10/10! Even an East German judge would have given you a 10.

Speaking of Romney and France, I don’t think he’d nuke them under any circumstances since that is where he spent over two years while on his Mormon mission and speaks fluent French I believe. Which would be handy for a Secretary of State because in diplomacy French is still a major language.

Or maybe she’s like me and is trying to give up smoking and was prescribed Wellbutrin. For a small fraction of the population, 4% I think, it induces feelings of almost homicidal rage (“agitation”). I took one pill and then threw out the bottle. I eventually gave up smoking using other means but maybe she’s sticking…

My husband and I routinely lose each other in stores and end up calling each other, much to the amusement of the other customers. It’s like we’re two magnetic fields that repel each other. “You’re in aisle 5? I was just in aisle 5. I’m in aisle 3 but stay where you are, I’ll come to you.”

And a very successful kitchen appliance.

If you want to see Dorothy Kilgallen in action, she was a panelist on “What’s My Line” for years in the 1950s and early 60s and the episodes are on YouTube.

Thanks for the reply! I’m not looking to go anywhere, I just hear about all these people who are just going to up and move (as if an American moving to New Zealand or Canada is like moving from Kansas City, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri) and of course no one goes anywhere. But you did, so thanks for the info.

Hot 97? It’s a NYC radio station. Here’s a sample link I found:

I am quite late to this but I wanted to let everyone know that from now on I will be adopting the phrase “quite well known in the Netherlands at one point” when a group of us are confronted with someone we’re supposed to know but don’t. It will replace, “S/he played a grieving parent/child on a few different episodes…

Is that true? I read Robert Dallek’s bio of JFK (which was basically a regurgitation of every shot and pill and treatment he ever got, which must have been in the thousands) and I remember his personal doctor was a woman named Janet something. I thought that was progressive (and creepy, because JFK) for the early…

He could also take the salary and turn right around and give it back to the government. There is a mechanism where you can send a check to the Treasury, “I don’t owe you this but I want you to have it.” I think you might even be able to earmark it, like for the EPA or the VA or whatever.

Teapot Dome! Never forget!

Watch the movie! It streams somewhere. In German it’s called “Er ist wieder da” (the original book, from which the movie was made) and it’s subtitled. It is hilarious and deeply unsettling at the same time.

I think you’ve probably explained this before but can you tell us how, as an American, you were able to move to New Zealand?

In that photo your dog looks like she’s a Hollywood starlet from the 1940s! What kind of dog is she? She’s adorable.