But .. but ... there was no social media back when all this happened. It can’t possibly have any relevance to anything like that happening today!

There’s no universals here, I think. We went quite the opposite way: the early years were difficult (business-like on the surface, but emotionally rough on us both). As time went on, we become pretty good friends, to the point of celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas at each other houses at some points. That’s…

If it makes it any better, at least two of the original employees feel the same way.

I was born in the UK. My daughter was born in the USA, with an American mother, after I had already lived here for more nearly a decade. She’s no more deserving of being labelled “British” than Kingsley is of being labelled Asian. Which is to say that sure, maybe some small element of a parent’s heritage gets picked…

When we get down to citing Ben Kingsley as an “Asian”, things have really hit a real low. Wikipedia:

Then you need to see them in Stormy Weather too:

Thanks for a nuanced and relevant answer. Now I see the mistake in my thinking.

Do you really believe that Tangerine would have been nominated for anything, regardless of who had directed it? Or even which actors had roles in it?

I wasn’t suggesting that you don’t understand marginal tax rates. You complained about the overall complexity of the tax code, attempting to link that with the article’s explanation of most people’s failure to understand marginal tax rates. I was seeking to point out that these two things are not related.

All tax systems embody certain ends and even certain means. All tax systems encourage certain behaviour and discourage other behaviour. If you want to encourage savings and investment, then a tax system based on sales tax is possibly a good move.

All that education, yet you still don’t seem to be able to differentiate between the basic error that so many people make - the way marginal tax rates work - from the deeper question of tax code complexity.

The interview with the person who played Jar-Jar mentioned that he effectively took the role from MJ (who later called him). He says that Lucas told him that MJ had wanted the role.

Could we please stop repeating nonsense like this:

Soundtrack gets extra points for the 2016-y interpretation of “Music for 18 Musicians” by Steve Reich.

Could I jplease ust keep my boomer status and also feel nostalgic?

British Airways across the Atlantic still offers free alcohol. Not all you can drink, but multiple small bottles of vino, at least.

Most airports I’ve travelled through have functioning, clean drinking fountains. I carry an empty bottle through security, and spend my $5 on something else besides water.

my #1 complaint about the daily show post-stewart: almost impossible to watch it on a device without flash installed. This is in marked contrast to the stewart era, and means that whereas I used to see many segments of many shows, these days I see precisely ... zero.

the conspicuous absence of the male gaze

The vast majority of Americans would classify winter in the Great Lakes area or New England as incredibly cold. Chicago is the only really big city in that zone. Waving my hands around, I’d guess that 80% of Americans live somewhere that is “significantly” warmer during the winter than S. Ontario.