Socialite Ponderer Gifts

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

"The university said he was a climate change denier so remove the statue."

"What was I thinking?!"

Plan to Split California into Six States Proposed....

That party went well.

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

"Another flue shot, Larry.

The Lessons of VietnamThe Lessons of Iran and ContraThe Lessons of Iraq.

Children's Party

"I'm both too liberal to be preppy and too conservative to be trendy."

"'Mr. Evans,' she said to me with that adorable smile, 'I think you're the nicest boy in the entire old-boy network.'"

A little sharpener before dinner, darling?

"Those are insightful and legitimate questions about our country, Tommy, and if times were different, your mom and I probably wouldn't have to report you to the government for asking them!"

'Social and political revolution? Check out our 'Do It Yourself' section.'

The Politics of Food.

Rod was unimpressed with the party - Sure, he was surrounded by bikini-clad lovelies, there was free champagne and a 20-foot jelly, but much to his chagrin, there was a distinct lack of cheese and pineapple chunks.

"Whoa! Wrong bar?"

'THAT'S the Holy Land? - You're kidding, right?'

"Bob choked on a spoon of caviar while he was on skiing vacation in St. Moritz."

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

"It's great the way that computer algorithms allow the internet to feed me with opinions that reinforce the ones I've already got - all on my phone!"

George Orwell

'Don't mind me....I'll just sit here while you work on homeland security, unemployment, health care and your many other prbblems!'

'Perhaps we do need a plan 'B'.'

"Brian's considering the optics."

A day at the races

"Of course it's not easy to read the body language of someone who's basically inert."

'Do you want to be red Tory or blue Labour?'

"Don't mention Pat Buchanan, pro or con."

'Ah, beer! And the bringer of beer!'

'Fill 'er up Fred!'

'Can I get you anything? Coffee? A biscuit?...A lift home?'

A man holding a pro-life sign stands above a group of beaten people who are pro choice.

"This is the Upper East Side, sir. We don’t sell ‘well’ vodka."

"Your party just totally blew us away."