I love her! A friend of mine met her at a Manhattan restaurant a few years ago and said she was very friendly; the Judge said she was always thrilled when a fan approached her. A far cry from Martha Stewart who put her hand in the same friend’s face when he dared look her way.

Gaetz used the verb “permute”. Ugh. I hate that guy.

Was Oprah so great, though? The clout she wields for this kind of interview is one thing but I rarely find her to be authentic or incisive in her actual interviewing. Maybe it’s just that I don’t like Oprah very much. I think she’s so full of buzz words and touchy-feeliness that it impedes her former, stellar abilities…

My father’s Irish accent was even thicker — and his voice was really deep so basically no one could understand him. My mother wasn’t much better but she often served as translator when my father would speak to someone.

I think part of the reticence of letting her out is that she had originally been on death row and committed a violent felony sufficiently serious to land her there. She was found guilty of a very horrible, aggravated capital murder, in extremely public fashion, and her commutation did have the built-in provision to be…

That is amazing. I snorted ice cream up my nose but it was worth it.

Yay, Claire! I am a Diet Coke fan and agree with you on every point. I am in Toronto so our Thanksgiving was a month ago - I am sure our fave beverage played a lead role. Off I go to crack open another. Happy Turkey Time! 

I had a rolling machine that worked like a sonofabitch, lasted 15 years or more. The butcher block top was also a great feature. It finally gave up the ghost at about the same time as I moved and no longer needed it.

I had a rolling machine that worked like a sonofabitch, lasted 15 years or more. The butcher block top was also a…

Me, too! And think of the girlish shrieks and scrabbling! Heaven.

I wasn’t being critical — just a hoser with a keen sense of all things Canuck! As for Canada Geese, they are intoxicated half the time in my neighbourhood here in Toronto. There is some sort of tree in the nearby park that drops over-ripe berries by the truck load at the end of the summer/mid-autumn. The zillion geese …

I loved the pics of Bo and Barack running down a White House corridor together. And I think there were a few of Bo romping in snow, and napping in the Oval.

Having a “snake” was what got him in trouble, if you recall.

It’s Canada Goose, not Canadian Goose. But you are quite accurate in that they bite. And hiss. And dive-bomb.

He looks like a more-douchey-than-usual Kennedy. JFK was known to wear make-up so it makes sense, no?

And he's practically lip-free. Lizard eyes. Big wooden teeth.

I am a ghost, too. I use two layers of SPF 150 and stay out of direct sunlight as much as I can. Even then, I have gotten a slight sunburn now and again.

Is this guy relentless or what? He somehow recovered from his wife’s murder, got away with rape charges and still managed to create work that resonates to some people (I am not one of these people). I guess being a multi-millionaire, living in luxury in Paris with a new family, being able to walk free and has only to…

Hey, I hear you. I am 6ft2in and built like a linebacker so bathtubs are to be stood in, not soaked in. It’s bad enough I have to duck my neck for the shower head, but I have long given up being able to soak my ass, never mind my tits. I know there are those huge soaker tubs on House Hunters but I am a poor and will…

Apart from whether I like it or not (I do, kinda!), my initial thought is storage. It’s sure as shit not going to fit into a regular hat box. Even if you could disassemble the thing, all those erect and turkey tail bits aren’t going to lie down. If you have to find a place to store this hat - and it would likely be…

I do not blame her one bit. Four years ago, I was just falling asleep when I heard something hit the floor and shatter in my kitchen (a short hallway from my room), followed by a skittering sound. Terrified, I turned on lights as I approached the kitchen and witnessed a HUGE rat (akin to your horrible intruder)…