Decent, sweet, and heartwarming? K-Lo, I’m sold. I’ll be sure to take She Who Must Be Obeyed over the holidays, then report back.

Re the way the Mexican immigrants work so diligently in Spanglish, you remind me of a remark my Hoover colleague Tom Sowell once made. After a quarter of a century of living in California, he had yet to see a Hispanic beg for money.

Can anybody tell me anything about The Life Aquatic, by the way? I like Bill Murray, but the promo I happened to see on the tube last night made the movie look stupid.