It appears that, having dimly grasped that they can’t really compete for circulation in the same way that two goldfish can’t fight for the most space in a leaking bowl, Chicago’s newspapers have turned to seeing who can openly promulgate the most vividly repulsive opinions. This is a few weeks after that insane…

I watched a substantial amount of the Justin Bieber roast on Comedy Central a while ago, and I still admire how pretty much every comic and hired celebrity appearance at the roast just mutually agreed to take Justin’s attempt at rehabilitating his public image and crash it into the ground.

Oh, I don’t really care about the rumor, and I can scarcely offer an opinion on its veracity or value as a reflection of Minaj. I agree that this kind of rumor is barely even a blip. I just tripped when the blip made my brain skip.

• Nicki Minaj bans “people working on sets” to avoid eye contact with her.

I had thought Donald Trump had mostly retained the same unflattering old-man looks since The Apprentice launched more than a decade ago, but looking at the photo in this article, I got curious and looked up what he looked like back then.

Donald Trump has managed to get more doughy and less defined. (I mean, granted,…

“Clemson Athletics’ Internal Affairs Unit Goes Out For Drinks To Celebrate Start of Yearly ‘Coming of the Overtime Pay’”

On average, the Celtics and Bruins do less of the mucking around that gets a team cursed in the first place.

1. I have a college friend who’s from San Diego. The reason we met is because the college in question is on the opposite side of the country.

As a one-time candidate for governor of Texas himself, the legendary Kinky Friedman, once remarked, “They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore”.

This could be a tacit ploy to feed the monster by giving Trump attention and another entity to start a one-sided feud with, exacerbating the GOP and RNC’s existing Trump headache, but, since this is the DNC, it probably isn’t, and if it accomplishes any of the above, a.) they’ll probably walk back any substantive…

The best description of the Skins fanbase that I ever saw, from last year’s WYTS’s fan comments, was one that described them as, and I paraphrase, “A mixture of asshole lawyers and cousin-fucking hill-filth”

I can respect the preferences of people who don’t like one or any of the artificial sweeteners — beyond the existence of ‘super tasters’, people with a tremendously more sensitive (and hence nuanced) sense of taste, it’s also a matter of what you’re familiar with, as the author sneaks a mention of into the final…

Has anyone used this in an aioli recipe? (And I mean aioli, not mayonnaise with garlic. There’s a real difference.) I’d like to not have to come up with a use for the egg yolks every time I make a new batch of aioli, and while it has a long life in the fridge to begin with, I’m always looking for a way to make it keep…

I don’t normally care much for Jagermeister, but I’ve found that it tastes amazing mixed with ginger ale (and cherry juice too, sometimes). It tastes like biscotti, with the sweetness and alcohol being balanced out by a lot of nuttiness and a little spice

In your time in/near the Pioneer Valley, did you ever happen to stop into the High Horse in Amherst? Their Kolner Dom is a delicious kölsch that was decidedly pleasing for an introduction to the style. I’ll have to see if I can find Dirty Kanza anywhere near me and give it a try.

While I’m not going to touch the direct subject of cheap wine quality (or lack thereof, yes, har har), I will say that you’d probably be interested in Adam Rogers’s Proof: The Science of Booze, or at least the part that covers some of the work of Dr. Hildegarde Heymann, a professor and researcher at UC Davis who…

I’ve heard of grocery chains having wine & beer licenses depending on the feelings of the town/municipality, and there are certainly no shortages of convenience stores with beer/wine licenses in the parts of MA I frequent, but I think a liquor license on top of that is limited to three locations in a chain. That would…

I assume it’s the Cambridge-area TJ’s that you patronize? I’ve been out to the one in Peabody only once with beer-purchasey intentions, and very regrettably only purchased their own-brand gold rum, which is essentially just rum-flavored surface cleaner, rather than beer.

I’ll definitely add this bomber to my shortlist…

The best jorts, and really, the only ones I can excuse, are the ones made on your own by converting a pair of jeans.

Cargo jorts are a no-go, though. Right off the bat. Non-starter.

Oh, my god. I love the opening two paragraphs on this column. Positively vicious without ever openly brandishing the knives.