Defacing yard signs is a public-order violation in the city of Beverly Hills. I’m not sure how it’s punishable, but I’m guessing the ’tache and the ‘anyone but’ daubed on to my friend Lisa’s ‘I’m with Hillary!’ placard would incur at least a five-hundred-buck fine.

Not that she’ll ever report it. No one wants to get their own husband in trouble with the law. Besides which there was that business with his Trump ‘Finally someone with balls’ sign, the one he’d planted defiantly beside hers – the one she accidentally ran over with her SUV.

Grief, drugs and politics. There are all sorts of bad foundations for relationships, but those three are right up there. Grief and drugs need little explanation (when you’re not in your right mind, what hope of a lasting union can there be?) but basing love or marriage on shared political beliefs is just as bad an idea.