That’s the thing that gets me every time I read about Trump’s immigration “policies,” (more like whims, shower thoughts, ideas had while squeezing one out on the can). He says he wants to limit immigration to exemplary, qualified professional people. But he also wants to limit “chain” migration. What professional…

The Democratic party isn’t responsible for the state having an economy built on a single nonrenewable resource, nor for the advancements made in natural gas extraction, nor the resulting worldwide decline in coal prices.

This is the part that so frustrating. It’s not the impoverished women with no education who make the best decisions they can with only bad choices to choose from - it’s the people who definitely have the wherewithal to know better (politicians, doctors, administrators, etc.) who stubbornly stick to their principles…

Exactly. The only person this hirer is going to be hiring this way is the person who can think quickly on their feet, specifically who can spin a lie that the hirer wants to hear in a millisecond. Tailoring one’s resume to the job being offered is standard stuff - and usually involves a hefty dose of spin to make the…

When I was in Czech Republic I was confronted with raw pork products for the first time. I ate it, of course - it’s not my favorite, it didn’t seem to have any flavor. The fact is that almost anything most people eat cooked, someone, somewhere, is eating it raw, and mostly it’s fine.

I believe I heard once that the royals do this so no one will be able to flog a toilet seat they’ve used, which frankly makes some sense to me. Yes, it’s tawdry and a bit gross when someone could try to get £20 for a used napkin with your lipstick stain on it, but there’s something particularly unsettling about…

It might- it was a relatively untested construction method. But it’s more likely that there were multiple points of failure to make this happen.

Time is just the hardest thing in the universe to wrap your head around. I mean, if you think about it, it’s weird that a single human being who made butter by hand and traveled across the country in an ox-drawn wagon also saw us drop an atomic bomb. But then, at the same time Ma was getting a log dropped on her leg…

Yeah, I didn’t mention it before, but the power to be able to prepare and eat a meal that someone who isn’t desperately sick might be willing to eat even when you are desperately sick is a really valuable feeling.

I’ve come up with a few depression-meals that are tasty, really quick and easy, and don’t take many tools or dishes to prepare.

He recently gave them the only thing they actually care about, a massive tax cut/ pay day for them and those that pay for them, so I’m guessing it will be a while. They don’t care about a single other thing on earth (including the vaunted economy).

“The dictionary,” by which I mean the huge groups of academics responsible for writing the various different dictionaries, remove words all the time that they consider to be obsolete. The exception is the Oxford English Dictionary, which has a different job than your standard desk reference - while your Merriam…

If you want meat with vegetables, sauce, and potatoes, what kind of kid’s menu offers that? Kid’s menus are full of single-item orders that are geared towards people with limited palates - that is, kids.

If you live in most of the world, you don’t eat the whole scallop, though, just the adductor muscle that closes the shell. Some places DO regularly eat the whole scallop, but the little round morsel that most of us eat contains zero eyes.

“The idea is that they are a known entity expected to continue the same agenda, have name recognition, and can play a sympathy card.”

Even if that’s true - IF - what does it fucking mean? The man finished high school. The insinuation is clearly that LeBron James is stupid, particularly about politics, and his opinion should be discounted because he didn’t graduate, when he very much did.

Right? What does “This is what happens when you attempt to leave high school a year early to attempt to join the NBA” even mean? Attempt? Did I hallucinate his 15-year-and-counting career, or did LeBron fucking James, 3 times NBA champion, do more than attempt to join the NBA?

Lidl is a common chain in Europe, and when I lived in Prague 10 years ago, I once chose NOT to rent an apartment based on the fact that the only grocery store within walking distance was a Lidl. I’d be interested but surprised to know that their quality is markedly better given the time and the different location.

I understand that Jez were the most brazen breakers of their own rule when they decided it was funny to start the “Who?” campaign against Rita Ora, but I really miss when people were warned that it’s never the artists who look out-of-touch when commenters decide “I don’t know who that is” is an insightful and biting…

I don’t even know that they need to use the word “accused,” multiple former border patrol agents have stated that this is next-thing to SOP, along with destroying food caches. You can listen to this This American Life episode (the relevant part is Act One: Line in the Sand) to hear one discuss this practice as a…