(1) In case you are wondering who else is 80:

Joe Biden

Paul McCartney

Harrison Ford

Judge Judy

Barbara Streisand

Calvin Klein

Martin Scorsese

Michael Bloomberg

Wayne Newton

Garrison Keillor

Isabelle Alende

Martin Cruz Smith

Erica Jong

Daniel Barenboim

Maurizio Pollini

Linda Evans

Britt Ekland

Carole King

Mitch McConnell

(2) Quip of the day: Someone told me that it was often important to know when to keep quiet, so you won’t say more than you should. She said: “I have a friend who would not utter the word banana, because he was afraid he wouldn’t know when to stop.”

(3) Of course it will never end. Donald Trump (remember him?) broke with tradition when he didn’t release his federal income tax returns, saying that he couldn’t release them while they were under audit, but he’d release them when the audit was completed. Which he never did, saying that the audit just wasn’t finished. So, one more lie to add to the pile. It turns out:

a. His tax returns were never under audit, BUT

b. There is a federal law that requires tax returns to be audited and that, under Donald, that law was simply ignored.

So a double lie, it appears. But now we will get the returns. As Edie says, now “everyone can audit them”, and although they have not been released yet, we are told that in 2020 Trump paid no taxes, and in two of the other years of his presidency, he paid $750 each.

(4) My Tom’s Deodorant stick say that it expires 12-22. What possibly does that mean??

(5) Masks, again. We went to a Hanukkah party last night – 13 people attended. We all agreed to take a Covid test yesterday before the party. Presumably, all were negative. Half of the party was spent sitting around a table eating (and voting on the best latkes and best latke toppings – a contest with prizes thanks to party planner Edie Hessel) and obviously during that time, no one was wearing a mask. The other half of the time was spent sitting around talking – then about half of the guests were wearing their N-95 masks (some people put them on, and took them off, etc.). Does this really make sense? Not even Dr. Fauci or Dr. Wen can answer that, I’d bet.