Changing the cat’s litter box, balancing my check book, cleaning the wax out my dog’s ears — these are all tasks that are less disagreeable than listening to President Obama deliver the State of the Union speech tonight. But I’m not here to burden you with my troubles. I come to offer an opportunity. On Friday, Jay Nordlinger and I are planning to answer listeners’ questions on our podcast, Need to Know. You can ask Jay about music, or human rights, or National Review, or golf, or baseball. Actually, I just threw in that last one as curveball, as it were. I have no idea if Jay is an expert on baseball. But he’s an expert on so many things that it would be good to discover some areas of ignorance! For what it’s worth, you can ask me questions too. Here’s the link. I believe you have to be a Ricochet member to participate, so if you’ve neglected to join up, now is the time to do it! Should be fun.

UPDATE: Ricochet is offering a special dispensation: If you like, you can leave a question in the comments under this very post.