Saturday morning roundup

It's bad form to try to one-up people on tragic events.

I supplement our earlier discussion on not being a bore with Miss Manners' column:

Politeness in any form of discourse requires taking into consideration what would interest the listener, which is exactly the element that is missing in bores.

She goes on to say that social media encourages the broadcasting of the mundane, which no one cares about.

No doubt there are general announcements intended for an entire circle of friends: births, for example, or “I won the lottery.” But one has to be totally besotted with someone else to be fascinated by the mundane details of that person’s everyday life — as indeed, bores are with themselves.

You know I regularly link to Gail Collins' columns because she's awesome. Well, here I bring you her salvo in Trump vs. Collins.