Perfect.

technically, minutiae

Well sure. That would fit the implicit rules. And by the same token, you’d never call it, “the McBun with Fishcake.”

Have you? I wish you’d do more. I won’t waste time arguing over exactly where S’n’S fits in the elevated-burger-chain hierarchy, but my last Bacon ‘n Cheese Double Steakburger was better than my last In-N-Out Double Double, and I love In-N-Out and hope it never dies. Why shouldn’t Steak ‘n Shake enjoy the same pop-cult…

Also PS. Does anyone else have trouble with the naming conventions around the McMuffin? I always feel weird specifying that I want a Sausage McMuffin “with Egg.” And simultaneously I feel uncertain about whether or not I need to specify that I want it “with cheese.” Isn’t the egg a given? How come the standard…

All-day breakfast has increased my Sausage McMuffin with Egg-intake by approximately 10,000%. Like all McThings, this is good for me in the McMoment and bad for me in the McLongRun (x10,000). So I guess I’m against this change? But I’ll be for it during the three-to-five extra years of life it will buy me. Except that…

My story feels similar:

I stuck ‘em up in two separate comment sections, because it’s that kind of highly caffeinated procrastination-moment.

You are so exactly right. Here are two awesome burger-versions that take maximum advantage of nooks, crannies, etc.:

Kate, two awesome EngMuff burgers:

boo. You’re disappointing me, H&T, heading down that food-person rabbithole of preemptive dismissal. Never tasted StL pizza but it looks good in the pic. And any food that inspires all these passionate paragraphs deserves a fair hearing (synesthetically speaking). I just made Marcella Hazan’s canonical Bolognese from…

“Turn around” is two words when you’re using it as a verb phrase. It’s only one word when it’s a noun (“Carlsberg attempts a turnaround.”).

I understand why you waited til 6:18 pm to post this wrong-opinion piece, Kate.

No bottle til he changes out of that messy diaper.

I can’t be 100% sure... so don’t quote me on this... but I’m - let’s say - 98% certain that no one has ever said, “I don’t suffer fools” without their testicles immediately shrinking by an ounce or two.

I think she’s saying that incarceration is inhumane, that its actual deterrence effects are less powerful than average folks assume, and that a rational, intelligent, humane system would use it as a last resort. Whereas our system uses it rampantly and casually, as if there weren’t tons of evidence suggesting we…

haHA. I’m only super nice at certain very specific levels of caffeination. I’ve got a few motivations that may or may not approximate niceness: (a) my own 1001 comment-section rage-wars have left me curious about how, if ever, these arguments can produce anything remotely useful; (b) I don’t know you at all, but…

I agree w/ all your points and think they’re smart and practical. Lingering question (to which I have no answer) is just about the real social utility of various punishments for this specific group of offenders in this specific moment. Reforms that “mak[e] things better for people who suffer the most” are probably the…

But you apparently “care” about the argument, as evidenced by your multiple posts and replies. If you only care at the road-rage level of telling off putative morons: done. If you partly (> 10%?) care about the content of your disagreement, why raise the insult bar? djp is clearly 100% not a moron (I assume you’re…

Accepting all your arguments to this point as reasonable, I still have a question: if we take as a given that “making an example” of Huffman has little symbolic/deterrence value for her cohort (rich, white, white-collar criminals), does that mean it has no symbolic value vis-à-vis investment in the legal system by…