At the end of October, 2012, executive recruiter Emerson Nagel and I were emailing each other about her current risk management job openings when she casually let it drop she'd be putting on a Halloween party (she lives in Mexico) for 250 kids in the neighborhood. 250 kids!!! I was stunned, not to mention impressed, and said so. She wrote back with a description so charming, so filled with generosity and imagination, that I asked her permission to blog it: "These are all kids from our neighborhood, mostly from families that have very little, and they really seem to have fun with it, though it's quite chaotic. Over the years we've made 9 fair-type games: piranha tank grab-bag, pumpkin toss, that kind of thing....

As far as I could tell, it took the Internet about a minute and a half to explode over Romney’s now infamous comment about binders and women. “We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women." And thus a meme was born. The history of its evolution has been charted on the site Know Your Meme. Before the debate had ended, a Twitter account, Romney’s Binder, was created (inaugural tweet: “Boy, I’m full of women!”)....