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Google “The Zimmerman Telegram.” That was 100 years ago.

That’s all well and good but who is the hot guy with black hair who’s really into it to Tom Petty’s left? Is that Dhani Harrison?

I’m reading a biography of Margaret Thatcher now (volume 2 of the authorized biography, Charles Moore) and there’s a whole section on the invasion of Grenada. Reagan gave Thatcher almost no warning and she was not happy. I was surprised to learn that she was pretty nonchalant about a Marxist takeover of a Commonwealth…

I was actually thinking more of you and your husband staying friends with the guy, and being supportive and not freezing him out, as I’m sure you wouldn’t because you’re a frequent commenter here and you sound like you would be an excellent friend!

Can I offer some advice? As someone who’s been in a gay marriage for 30 years, which is almost supernatural, I’ve witnessed tons of breakups and divorces of gay and straight couples. There is something called the divorcé(e) plague, which is where when someone gets divorced and you’re still married you shun them. Don’t…

Just to belabor this craziness on our part:

Can I just write in and say that I (New Yorker) love Southern California and hope to retire there some day (bucking the trend, since all of the SoCal folks seem to be itching to get out to move to all the other western states, and beyond?)

And imagine all of this craziness in a (larger than most) Manhattan apartment. I will post pictures, I think, but all of this decorating is like a one-week pop-up shop, because we have the huge open house and then we take it all down again and leave New York to go elsewhere for Christmas.

I can’t help you out but I do a lot of multilingual work myself for various city agencies here in NYC. I make sure that the form I got in English and the form I got in translation matches up. I work in all kinds of languages, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic, other non-Roman alphabet languages so I have to go character by…

Be thankful that they’re just buttresses. My husband just left a couple of hours ago and will be away for a week for work. When he’s gone I invite the dog up on the bed with me, because I don’t like sleeping alone and why not, there’s plenty of room. Problem is, my dog, who weighs close to 100 pounds, will start off…

I love Christmas mostly for the decorating opportunities. I am very non-believing WASP, but my (gay) husband is black, and his mother was a big fan of Christmas and QVC and catalog shopping. We throw a huge open house every year and we pull out all her black Santas, we have a few elaborate “American Girl”-like black…

I’m probably reading too much into this but I think (and many believed) that those Bugs Bunny cartoons were a sly urban/rural parody. The bunny with the Brooklyn accent cracking wise and pulling all kinds of schemes against the gun-toting maroon Elmer Fudd (who also had a mid-century Brooklyn accent) living to fight…

Counterpoint about the Japanese: Their honesty is refreshing. I was at a new-to-me Japanese restaurant just last night (one of the few non-Asians in the place, and I got the menu in English) and I’m an adventurous eater and never order something I hadn’t had before somewhere. I ordered spiced beef and tofu in a broth…

I know people project all kinds of weird traits onto Clinton, from saintly to Satanic, but I don’t think anyone on earth thinks she’s anyone’s Muppet.

I’ve worked on materials that taught people, mostly Americans, about etiquette in other countries/cultures, mostly dealing with hands (shaking hands, making hand signals, waving, touching, leaving money on the counter rather than passing it) but I’ve never heard the one about passing a business card with two fingers.…

It’s 2016 so no one reads anymore, it’s a visual age. We’ll need public service videos about nuclear warfare like this one starring Bert the Turtle:

I love aluminum trees! We had a silver one growing up, and a color wheel that sat under it and shone primary colors. So pretty.

I’m pretty sure Lee cut her own hair, from the photos.

Tonja Carter, apparently.