And while where I live, two teenagers tried to force their way into a guy’s house last week. One of them had a gun (turned out to be unloaded). The homeowner put the kid in a chokehold while his girlfriend sprayed them both with mace. The cops arrived and arrested her and the unconscious boyfriend. The homeowner had…

COVID-19 doesn’t want to catch Trump.

>Katie’s husband, of course, is Stephen Miller, the architect of the White House’s arcane immigration policy. The two married earlier this year. Trump is close enough to the couple to have attended the wedding.

>In his motion to dismiss, US attorney Timothy L. Shea wrote:

Storming the capitol with assault weapons isn’t a protest, it’s the opening to an eighties action movie. (Spoiler alert, Meal Team Six here isn’t the good guys.) They’re sending a very clear message: “Do what we want or we’ll murder you all.”

It’s not like this is the first time that TrumpCo’s personal debts have dictated foreign policy. Look at the weird shit that went down around Kushner’s 666 Fifth Ave. building -

My knuckles (and butt) were frequently on the receiving end of Penguin Wrath my first year in a parochial school ca. 1979-80, so there were definitely some pre-V2 holdouts. Come to think of it, she would also give us a lengthy lecture on what we *really* meant whenever we said “goddammit”...

Studio Ghibli put up a bunch of free backgrounds to use, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Never change, Werner Herzog, you weird German man you. Never change.

“We all”? I assume you meant to say “the Right” there, because lefties all seem to be on board with following the advice of doctors and scientists and not a reality TV huckster. And FYI, those protests are about as organic as the Tea Party. They’re being fomented by the same conservative think tanks as last time.

The key to understanding Trump is that he’s a huckster. He’s a used car salesman trying to sell the country a car that’s missing a wheel and has a smallpox blanket in the trunk. Ever see old commercials of him shilling Trump Vodka or Trump Steaks or Trump Chlamydia or whatever? He uses EXACTLY the same speech patterns…

Wow, an article on the USPS’ woes that utterly fails to mention the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — aka the “kill the Post Office” law — that mandated that they pre-fund 75 years’ worth of retiree benefits. Way to do your research. Idiot. The year before, they had *lowered* their rates because they…

I eat a lot more vegetables thanks to the wonder of steam-in-the-bag technology, both plain and full side dishes. They’re pretty dang good these days. It sucks when a variety you liked gets discontinued, though. I still miss Green Giant’s roasted red potatoes, green beans, and rosemary butter sauce. That was good with…

I was expecting this to be about actual meals, not snacks and junk food. Like, Stouffer’s lasagna or Marie Callender’s pot pies...

Doesn’t using the convection setting throw off the temp?

I was taught to start mine in a cold oven to assist with the fat rendering.

I wonder what his selection criteria were, because “availability of cels” seems to be the biggie at first glance. I’m not seeing any Wings of Honneamise in there, which is a bigger creative exercise than simply faithfully recreating Tokyo as in the Patlabor films or designing deliberately generic Japanese architecture…

Gee, that sounds an awful lot like what they did with mortgage-backed securities ten years ago. Take a thousand subprime mortgages that by themselves no one would touch, and bundle them with one or two legit mortgages and claim that the whole thing is AAA grade.

But there’s an inspector general whose job is to prevent just that— Oh, wait. Trump fired him yesterday. Trump, who has a loooong history of dipping his hand in the cookie jar. (But don’t call it embezzlement. When the rich and pretend-rich do it, it’s called “self-dealing”.)

If their business model only works with tax dodges and labor exploitation (not to mention being massive polluters), then maaaaaaybe they shouldn’t be in business.