Interesting as "not just gossip" because: he gave her the name! Further, she chose not to use it for her main product: herself as an entertainer.

@ Pew, new study, Jan. 3

What jumps out for me: I see a party difference as to Protestant Work Ethic vs. enjoying life:

One couple, though, was extraordinary. Not because they were the colony’s only gay penguins, though they were, but because Sphen and Magic looked like they would make great, diligent, careful egg-warming parents. They made the biggest nest, and they sat on it constantly...when a particularly negligent heterosexual penguin couple looked to be leaving an egg exposed (females lay two, but usually only one survives), the aquarium workers figured they would give it to Sphen and Magic...Their chick — for now called Sphengic — was born on a Friday and weighed 91 grams. It was the only chick to have hatched of all the eggs in the colony.

Donald J. Trump, 1/13/2019 - hitting the little remaining ISIS territorial caliphate hard, and from many directions. Will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms. Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds. Create 20 mile safe zone....Likewise, do not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey. Russia, Iran and Syria have been the biggest beneficiaries of the long term U.S. policy of destroying ISIS in Syria - natural enemies. We also benefit but it is now time to bring our troops back home. Stop the ENDLESS WARS!

When they did talk about Trump, candidates were advised to actively try and de-emphasize him

By Sam Stein @ DailyBeast.com, Jan. 12

In the early days of 2018, two leading Democratic groups commissioned a study on how best to engage and mobilize African-American voters. The impetus was the special Senate election in Alabama in which a groundswell of black voter turnout led to the shock election of Democrat Doug Jones.

The groups, Color of Change and Priorities USA, wanted to understand how that outcome had come to be and whether it could be duplicated nationally. What they discovered was that conventional wisdom about how Democrats should go about discussing Donald Trump was all wrong. Rather than galvanizing African-American voters, the president was depressing them. More respondents (39 percent) said they felt less motivated to vote since Trump’s election than those who said they felt motivated by the 2016 results (37 percent) [....]

Note poll is of "Americans", not registered voters and plenty of people said "both" even though that wasn't an offered choice.

‘Could you make these guys essential?’

By Lisa Rein & Jeff Stault @ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 11

The IRS was unable to process a key form that lenders need to verify the employment and incomes of home loan applicants — a roadblock that could have brought the mortgage industry to a halt.