re: #143 Stanley Sea

His Mom did have fun.

Indeed, and much more fun than, say, Pat Nixon. Though I’ve had a soft spot, if not pity, for poor Pat Nixon since I read in a biography of her shitheel husband that the GOP la-de-dah set frequently laughed at her homemade dresses, often loud enough that she could hear.

Like many women who grew up in the Depression, my mother sewed her own dresses (usually from Butterfield patterns), and she was one stylish dish.