I fell on my left ring finger trail running almost 5 years ago now, and my ring finger now has MUCH wider variance in size than it did. I can get it on in the morning, but within a few hours it gets painfully stuck. I’m pretty sure it’s not indicative of the state of my marriage (though my wife may disagree?). Anyway,…

My brother and I split a bag of mint Oreos when we were kids, and we both puked them up. I still have an aversion to all mint chocolate except mint chocolate chip ice cream. So for me, at least, it's a highly idiosyncratic aversion.

I got a skateboard at 44. My teenagers, my 71-year-old dad and I take turns pushing it around the local park. We suck, but it's good to suck at stuff and keep doing it until you suck less.

Yeah. The leak hit the same day pre-orders were available. You know that folks are googling, so why not have peak googling hit when people can actually fork over credit card info.

Did anyone find this movie relatable? My wife and I enjoyed it because we enjoy watching charismatic people do stuff (like there’s a movie where Bill Murray uses a hose a bunch, and I really dug it even though I think he’s a serial abuser, which I don’t think I knew then), but as a long-time married people, it was…

The zero votes for impeachment from Republicans in the House was telling. It didn’t give a single person in their caucus enough of a sense of worry that the President of the US is pressuring other countries to manufacture propaganda against his political opponents to get them to actually stand up and try and stop it?

There are times when they get into it though. E.g., In the early 2000s the NY AG’s office sued to have the Conservative Movement’s Hechsher either be banned or carry a warning label. Basically their interest in the case was consumer protection. A Conservative certification of a food item’s being Kosher wouldn’t be…

The NYC outbreak was pretty large in the Satmar community in Williamsburg, but vaccination rates were similar to the rates in places where rich people buy into debunked conspiracy theories. My understanding is that for the Satmars, it wasn’t actually a religious issue from the broad spectrum of religious authorities.…

This was hard for me though because I also love my house plants. I chose to retain feelings, but now I’m sad that maybe my house plants are getting cancelled. I guess it would have been more strategic to cancel feelings, so I would be less invested in the house plants?

Yeah. Seems to me that anyone who runs against Trump will end up being pretty disliked by the end of the campaign. It's just the nature of running against him with right wing media acting on his behalf.

You know who had a good plan? Harris. Private insurance stayed but as Medicare Advantage-type plans, so the government gets to negotiate base level prices, but you can pay a little more for some fancier services if you want. Glad we have two of the whitest states in the country setting the tone as first to vote states.…

So like, did she not have any black people working on her reparations policy or her HBCU funding or her black business owner’s policy? Because if she didn’t, that’s effed up; and if she did, why wouldn’t she say, “We’re going to have African Americans all the way up and down my administration just like I have in my…

I use the Costco Instacart in Queens. It’s been decent. I don’t have time constraints waiting (work from home). I would have a strong preference for the drivers being able to bundle multiple orders and deliver more efficiently. I think a local grocery has an app. A lot of people get delivery from them, so it’s likely…

Their counsel has been so incompetent, I can only think they’ve been ignoring any advice they receive? Or, I guess it’s not out of the question that Trump would pardon them still?

I think the evidence is that Tulsi takes stands that help Russia (even when they hurt her political career), Russian bots push her candidacy, and she goes on TV saying things that undermine the Democratic party. A normal Democratic politician’s response would be, “I’m sorry that Sec. Clinton sees me that way. While…

Yeah. I wasn't clear. I meant that in addition to anti-corruption, which she's great on, she puts out plans on government responsiveness and improved effectiveness. E.g., federal 311, and upgrading the OMB to really get into the weeds on efficiency (but, you know, good and compelling versions of those ideas).

I think for the primary, it’s worth her while to point out that in order to win long-term, we need to undermine the “government is bad” ideology. It fits in well with her anti-corruption plan already. I wonder if she should/ will be putting out a plan to improve government responsiveness and capability? My sense is…

On a tampon related topic that isn’t mind bogglingly awful, my daughter chanted Torah on Yom Kippur, and when she was done, she sat down and whispered, “Thank goodness that’s over. My tampon was falling out. I’m headed to the bathroom now.”

I feel like this is poorly understood and under reported. Working class white women voted for Trump knowing he was a sexual harasser because they don’t think sexual harassment will end, and it’s so common that they don’t think a President could do anything to counter it, and like, maybe they also feel like they…

I concur on having a handheld. You have to position yourself correctly on the seat to optimize cleaning yourself with the back of seat mounted sprayers. Better to maneuver the sprayer than the person if it’s being directed by a helper. She may also find the sensation not so agreeable, so one with a warm water hook-up…

I concur on having a handheld. You have to position yourself correctly on the seat to optimize cleaning yourself…