Sunday Reading: Dorothy Parker's lost tapes, more on the Trump transition, is this end-game for polling, and a new podcast

A few odds and ends from a very busy, very long, and very odd week.

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Happy weekend, friends.

It’s Sunday morning. So I hope you’re at home with loved ones or pets, or both, with your choice of hot beverage in hand, and contemplating what to do with this mid-November day before the working week resumes for most of us.

There was no shortage of news this week, what with the rocket-fueled announcements of a…