I’m pretty sure refusing service based on sexual orientation, an irrelevant matter to a business transaction that doesn’t involve sexual congress, is not “harmless”, so you have that much of your example 100% backwards.

There are some pretty clever ways to work UBI that don’t boil down to “hey everybody, here’s a fat but still insufficient check whether you need it or not”. Like Reverse Income Tax (if you’re below a realistic poverty line, you get paid to cover the difference, otherwise you only get taxed on what you earned over that…

You mean the healthcare shortage where nobody in their right mind would go into medical school debt or the trouble of nursing school so that they can literally mop up shit for minimum wage and mandatory unpaid overtime for their whole lives?

Sorry, but cultural tolerance for intolerant ideology is what got us into the most despicable stuff going on in America (and at our hands across the world) for the last 150 years or more.

For whatever reason, they’re taught only one tactic: overwhelming force backed by belief in their nigh-absolute authority. Even if they make a mistake or commit a wrong that ends with someone dead, they remain in the right because they have a vast apparatus to protect them - which is exactly what they’re supposed to…

I’m torn. I really do get the point about over-apologizing.

File under “Performances that make you realize an old pop song is maybe better than you remember it being”: Nicki Bluhm and her ‘Gramblers’ singing in a van. Surprisingly good acoustics.

1.) No. There are only 2 reasons why airline tickets are so expensive today: Irresponsible / corrupt deregulation, and corporate greed, pure and simple.

Processed cold cuts and cheeses contain upwards of 500 mg salt per slice (low-sodium ones might get down to 400 mg, and Swiss is a big exception, but otherwise they’re absolutely bonkers), and most bread at least 100 mg per ounce. Oh, and if you can taste the butter on a sandwich that big, you’re talking at least 2…

No, the Louvre really wants a case of bed bugs.

“... who in turn made their wealth by exploiting and in some cases literally killing and enslaving everyone else’s grandparents.”

Somebody doesn’t want Martin to live to finish the books, I see...

#1 on any onion ranking must be “NONE”.  I’ve had leek soup that was palatable, but that’s about it.

Probably the popularity of 3rd-party processors like this Squareup. A lot of them are turn-key solutions that provide cute little tablet-based “registers” and an app and sometimes even the wireless infrastructure for the restaurant, while making sure of all regulatory compliance (such as encryption and security on any…

I assume that’s actual, brewed coffee and not coffee grounds.  That seems like it would be weird and awful.  You never know with some Internet recipes, though...

Because the U.S. is where the surplus of under-educated wealthy people who will believe this nonsense and pay through the nose to hear it, are located. People in other countries either have more sense, less money, or both, depending on which one you’re talking about.

Sounds fine. But until someone figures out a way to not die at 70 after 20 years of increasing decrepitude WITHOUT giving up all meat, salt, sugar, and fat, and live basically on unseasoned lawn trimmings, send it back.

GIS reveals he’s whiter than his victim, and wealthy enough to live in a gated community. I’d say a 25-year sentence looks unlikely. If it weren’t so cut-and-dried, with a digital witness and potential audio recording, I’d say even a manslaughter conviction might be in doubt. Justice is scarce in this country, for…

Your insight for the day: everyone does this.  Most of us aren’t quite so disproportionate or violent in doing so, but we do it nonetheless.

Problem #1:  Nobody but shitheads has the money, time, or inclination to run in the first place.  Especially the money part.