Mugsy, my darling, I love you with all of my heart. Lauginng heartily. Hoping Miss Manners or Judith Martin will respond to your page, ASAP. How would you spell that in nutxt…MMD ILYWAOMH… Our children are so NOT clever. Pig-latin was more creative this THIS!

Yo! JJ!

Well, according to my research. First, y’gotta learn to be a fairy, and then you can be any color you want!

Always enjoy your posts, Dona.

Oh! It’s a goat! I thought it was a cow. I thought it was art. Cool. Grecian art. A goat!

Most people lie, Frank. They don’t have to be politicians…even though one word (politician) is sort of a euphamism for the other. Or is it the other way around?

You might feel differently if you’d ever been locked in a basement.

I would like to poll adult children of single parents. See what they think?

I beg to differ, Bonnie. There were no politics involved, even if it is doubtful that anyone would be granted such leniency to speak by this particular Supreme Court, his arguments were all Constitutionally oriented…another mark of the writer’s genius.

Wait a minute! Wasn’t that Tina Fey playing Justice Ginsberg?

Oh, Henry wouldn’t like that. He’s not a pet. He’s a Dog, and he knows it.

Y’know, Lorraine, I think it’s simpler just to allow “their” and “they” to become acceptable as singular modifiers when referrent to an ungendered subject. That’s the hold-up. It’s the gender-specific connotation of the nouns and pronouns that rankle. In fact, leaving the feminine out of the texts that rely on masculine pronouns to imply both genders. If we could just say “A landscape engineer loves it when their spouse mows the lawn.” Or, y’know, like in your own words, “the speaker is not thinking before they speak”. Let “their” and “they” imply “his or her” when following a singular ungendered noun. That’d fix it. But oh, no! The grammer Nazi’s won’t stand for it. “People” and “humanity” are still good ungendered substitutes for “they” or any other non-gender-specified plural noun. I think all our writing would improve if we could be taught to only use him or her following a singular GENDERED noun or pronoun. “He tied his shoes.” “She walked off in her own little huff.”

Yo!

Yeah. Where’s the “wowOwow Women in Movies that Count”?

Good call! Iris. I forgot about Ms. Longstocking. I loved her.