Non-lawyer here: Giving your opinion is not defamation. (Also, calling this interviewer a moron would simply be a matter of fact.)

Also, without wanting to cast aspersions*, his hair is now pink.

*Narrator’s voice*: She wanted to cast aspersions.

Bet he calls women ‘feisty’, too.

True. I never thought of that. My grandfather (born 1905) wouldn’t wear a wristwatch until he was in his 50s. He thought they were ’effete’.

The bar is getting so low we’re going to have to hire an earth excavator to dig down far enough.

‘Wristwatch’

Second rule of thumb: try to live a life that doesn’t merit a ‘Denies the Holocaust’ sub entry in your ‘Later Years’ subcategory.

Sorry, but it’s a screenshot from a newspaper, not my own graph.

And the second!

Hamnet is for the people who say 'I hated the book/movie: there were no characters I could empathize with', as though art has to be 'likeable', or something that you recognize in yourself, a kind of endless maple-syrup outpouring of sticky sentimentality.

Yep. A friend in NY turned 80, and I said, Sorry, I'd love to see you, but.

As to Mtl, c'mon in, the water's fine!

Interesting. I didn't know that. There go all my ideas of hippy-dippy Washington!

My (Jewish) grandparents met in Karlovy Vary, probably about 18 months before it was annexed by Nazi Germany, and when I learned the date I thought, 'What the fuck were they thinking?'

I'm thinking that a lot these days.

Sadly, I suspect it's many of the blue border towns -- towns in Washington and Maine are particularly suffering, I hear.

But yes, next year's numbers will be really interesting. I mean, who doesn't want to go and be kidnapped off the street, or shot in the face?

English mustard powder too.

No cumin? Fennel seeds? Caraway seeds? Nigella (which I think is called something else in the US. Black cumin maybe?)

'20 million UK users'? One third of the UK population is on Twitter?

Can they not do sums, or do they think we can't do sums?