Ashley you’re becoming one of my favorite new writers on these boards. Jeff Ballabon is garbage, and I think you’re dead on when you locate his base motivations in racism and unexamined bigotry rather than any sort of concern about anti-Jewish prejudice.

If only Rome had made of sweet, soft lemon cake, shot through with poppy seeds. We’d all be speaking Latin now.

Always proud to clear a low bar.

Of course this is important breaking news. Meanwhile, where is the lemon poppyseed recipe we were (sort of) promised? Life is hard enough...

Why assume Samer’s positions would support a logical, well-thought-out email? I read the op-ed Samer linked to in calling Stephens is a climate-change denier. He’s not: the op-ed critiques the hyperbolic claims that writers and activists sometimes make when describing (and sometimes simplifying or exaggerating)…

It’s stunning, the thoroughness with which Samer plays himself here. If a 20something criminal mastermind spent ten years in a glass-walled cell, using a needle to scribble notes in blood on scraps of smuggled toilet paper, he still couldn’t devise a better Doomsday Machine for coming off like an arrogant, callow,…

a) that’s a decent question though it doesn’t deal at all with my comment. b) so you’re pretty read up on the voting records of the Blue Dog Democrats?

work it gurl.

Got it. Agree. I’m not sure this clock even has that side anymore. Apparently, Jia Tolentino used to purposely* write her long investigative/argumentative pieces without landing on a stance at the end. Just tried to explore and flesh out the ideas behind various possible views of an issue. Whereas all these kids start…

I’m anti- this amendment, generally pro-AOC, and disagree w/ conservative Dems on a ton of issues. But how is this not the single Trumpiest thing in this entire article:

Very much yes.

That history, combined with the way people now behave as if pink-♀/blue-♂ is one of Newton’s Laws. But I’m confused about @zombiepanda’s original post. If the italics mean what I think they do, and they took a corrective tone here -

Sorry this happened to you. Creepy men are ruining everything for everyone.

I get that this isn’t widely known. But people scoffing when you bring it up is like... ok how much of an ignorant target do you want to be? This is a very real thing.

Also, as much as half of those comments aren’t even coming from real movie fans (even in the trollish sense) but from Russian bots or troll-farms using these kinds of controversies to make Americans even more mutually distrustful than we already are. A recent study about Russian propaganda campaigning in…

Finally, democracy. Maybe you should cross-post the recipe on Splinter.

More verbose-ly: lemon-poppyseed is one of those areas of potential transcendence that’s been poisoned by the ubiquity of mediocre versions in popular culture. When we go through life getting hit in the face with flabby, sticky-topped lem-pop muffins at every coffee counter, or having individually plastic-wrapped…

Technically speaking, everybody’s a hypocrite. But also: you’re right and this is the answer. And, speaking as a hypocrite, Republican-politician hypocrisy is so fucking pure. It gives me that [trapped-wolf:ready-to-gnaw-off-my-own-foot] feeling.

Quality lemon-poppyseed recipes would address a critically overlooked and under-served need in this community.

^ quality.