This is absolutely one of the things that bugs me about hype given to pressure cooking. There is no accounting for the time to pressurize and to depressurize. The rice cooker takes about the same amount of time from measuring out dry rice to serving.

I also loved “Wicked French”

For the business traveler, this phrasebook is all you’ll need!

Yes. I recall seeing a fake NYTimes website made up by, I think, National Lampoon. It showed an alternate reality in which Al Gore won the election.

Holy shit! There would be a “Trump Exit Baby Boom”!

Since he claims that he’s paying for it himself, any smart caterer or restaurant would demand the cash up front.

At first, I thought that it was a warning from the rest of the world that the U.S. would be hit with sanctions.

OK. So just to be sure.

Can’t say I’m sorry about the guy.

The black victim was very lucky that the police didn’t just Taser him on the scene.

So, the largest coal-burning plant burns 11 million tons of coal per year, which is around 30,000 tons per day, or over 1,000 tons of coal per hour, on average.

Coal jobs halved between 1920 to 1950, and fell again between 1955 and 1970. Mechanization and strip mining are what brought an end to most coal mining employment [edit: that’s actually just a guess. I dunno]. In the past 20 years, it’s been relatively stable, probably having reached a maximum level of efficiency.

I’m sure that they have a functioning penis. Oh! There it is, firmly gripped in his hand!

He’s even more bald than he was originally!

We had friends whose kids spread “duck butter” on their toast.

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

Thanks for pointing that out, though. I was all set to buy my “KFC HOLIDAY LOAF”.

The centrists mentioned; Bloomberg, Steyer and Cuban would do their best service putting their vast wealth into the 50 state plan for state houses (to break the coming gerrymandering attempts after the 2020 census) and providing the flood of money needed to flip the Senate.

the Fox News bimbo now representing the United States at the United Nations

Kelly should go full “Pentagon Papers”, and copy all documents that can be used in evidence against the entire administration, and give them to Mueller’s team. (I’d normally say “the press”, but I think that Mueller will be able to do more with them)