@blissweb 1 January 2021 more from that month

It started in April, when, during one of his widely seen coronavirus press conferences, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, mentioned that his daughter Mariah’s boyfriend would be joining the family for a traditional Italian-American Sunday dinner. “The boyfriend is very nice and we like the boyfriend,” he said. “Advice to fathers: the answer on what you think of the boyfriend is always ‘I like the boyfriend.’ Always. Because there’s only two options. Either you like the boyfriend, in which case, you say, ‘I like the boyfriend.’ Or you don’t like the boyfriend. But you can never say you don’t like the boyfriend.” Hmm. Then, in July, Cuomo unveiled a political poster, allegedly for morale-boosting, that represented the worst months of the initial covid-19 spike and the state’s response to it. The rise and fall in cases were embodied by a mountain, and there, in a spot on its right slope, was a small man dangling from something called the Boyfriend Cliff. But just which boyfriend was hanging on so precariously? In October, the New York Post suggested that a state trooper from Cuomo’s security detail, who had been dating one of the governor’s other daughters, Cara, had been “transferred to a post near the Canadian border.”