Mailbox cleanup

Mailbox cleanup

Nixon-style: Hillary Clinton conceded Tuesday that she made a mistake in using private email when she was secretary of state, but defended the deletion of some 30,000 emails that she says were not work-related .

Somewhere in the afterlife, a jowly man with a 5 o’clock shadow murmurs, “well played, madam.”

Attention dumb smartphone users: The state Senate voted to extend the ban on cellphone use while driving to cover the stuff modern smartphones can do — like deleting emails that should be in the public record. When the law was written in 2008, it addressed only phone calls and texting.

And that updated a law from the really old days, when drivers were distracted not by gadgets but by kids jumping up and down on the back seat.

Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: An all-female roster of comedians does stand-up and sketch comedy in a show on A&E called “Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Sexy Funny”.

The title doesn’t contain the word “Irresponsible,” which must mean the comedians persuaded McCarthy to keep her cake hole shut about vaccines.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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