This is one of those interesting cases because of two competing facts:

Mike Huckabee is an ignorant, smirking, obnoxious, bigoted asshole.

Well, after a few more years away from him, maybe her friends could send her a cake decorated with the words “5 YEARS DOUCHEBAG FREE”?

For sure. First things that came to my mind regarding the guy who tried to pour alcohol into the semiconscious woman: Either he’d drugged her in anticipation of date rape, or else she was ODing on heroin or pain pills. Good on the manager for calling the cops on that asshole.

I sometimes slip up with gendered pronouns when referring to recently-transitioned friends. Not because I have any problem with their being trans, but because I knew them for so many years before their transitions that the no-longer-appropriate pronouns are burned into my brain. When I meet a trans person I didn’t…

I usually make tuna burgers or bean burgers. Drain some canned tuna or beans, toss into the food processor and chop up with a slice of bread (for tuna) or some chickpea flour (for beans), a chunk of onion, and maybe a piece of bell pepper. Sometimes I add a little chunk of frozen kale or spinach for color. Stir in a…

But then why would an opened can of soda be okay? (I’m assuming by “opened can”, they open the can and hand it to you separately from the cup, rather than pouring the soda into the cup and handing only the cup to you.)

I think it was also because Merlot was the bone broth of 2004. Everyone was drinking it whether they liked it or not. (Me, I like Merlot. But at the time I wouldn’t have been surprised to see Merlot-flavored toothpaste at the supermarket.)

I love them steamed with garlic and olive oil. I also like them roasted, but to my taste, roasting brings out a cloying sweetness that needs to be cut with a squeeze of lemon at the table. Then, they’re perfect.

I have a special loathing for Stephen Harper, and I’m not even Canadian.

I think it would be better to watch the Koch brothers fight to the death. I’ll make popcorn!

It disturbs me too. Are people seriously breeding cats and dogs that have deformed heads and faces because they think those troll-like features are cute? Most of them look like they would have a hard time getting food into their mouths.

Maybe I’m a sociopath, because I wouldn’t have given a shit one way or another if someone proposed at my wedding, or announced a pregnancy or an engagement. (As long as they didn’t make a big public spectacle of it, anyway. We didn’t even have dancing or a bouquet toss, which minimized OUR being a public spectacle,…

When I was an undergrad, a bunch of friends and I went to a little diner-type restaurant near campus. It was cheap and the food was passable, so it was popular with students. I was probably trying to eat something healthier than fries, so I ordered a side salad with my dinner. Not a bad salad, actually. Vegetables…

A good lamburger is a joy like no other. A former co-worker of mine served them at a cookout and they were awesome.

I was at a weekend retreat at a house run by my undergrad school, and the normally very good house cook made a batch of breakfast blueberry muffins that didn’t seem to have any sugar at all in them. They tasted like slightly sour cardboard and flour dust. The scary thing is that most of the people there went ahead and…

Yup. They were advertising “Visine with tetrahydrozoline” back in the 1970s. It’s always been there, and it’s dangerously toxic when swallowed.

If I saw someone change a baby’s dirty diaper on a restaurant table, I think I’d raise a ruckus until either they were kicked out of the restaurant or I was.

Wow, I never noticed that they still made McChickens. The only time we eat at McD’s is when we’re road-tripping, but, coincidentally, we’re road-tripping in a couple of days. Will keep an eye out for them.

I lived in the Boston area for years, and loved Legal Sea Foods, but never actually knew the origin of the name until I looked it up a minute and a half ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Sea…