"I've asked this repeatedly and have yet to have received a response…"

I always thought it meant "don't let our revolutionary search engine become cluttered and shitty like Yahoo." Nothing to do with ethics per se.

What I think is funny is that the right fights tooth-and-nail against anti-discrimination laws that protect gay and trans people, then they turn around and act like you have some kind of absolute right to broadcast your political opinions to the entire workplace and not get fired. Dumbasses are not yet a protected…

"because their father hurt your father"

"The desire to beat someone with a bat because you don't like their ideas…"

It can be kind of fun to politely recognize a minor actor, though. We once got waited on by a guy from a series of Fios commercials. And my wife gave Asif Manvee a shoutout on the street before he was on the Daily Show (she had seen him in Death Defying Acts.) In these instances, at least, the people smiled.

I remember some celebrity on some talk show making a weak joke about people who shook his hand and said "big fan." (I guess they like big fans? Hardee har har.) It's like, maybe be grateful they don't crack open your skull and feast on your celebrity brains?

"its purely theater"

The Times comments are kind of amazing, in that there are a significant number of people who buy the "but I made my investors money in the long run" argument and view this as some kind of technicality. No, you can't falsify your statements to investors, that should be obvious. It's like arguing that Madoff would've…

Well, she does say that, but to translate to what I think that really means — (a) she memorizes music as she listens and (b) she likes complex stuff because it takes longer to give up its secrets, requiring repeated listens to digest.

You say lazy, I say simple and laconic. (I guess, I mean I only heard the song a couple of times.) Beats the shit out of a LOT of the Hot 100 that year.

I liked that she basically said she listens to the same stuff over and over again until she memorizes it.

I'll see your 4 classics and raise you 2 classics, 1 good album, 1 inconsistent, and 1 I will maybe never listen to all the way through because I'm tired.

Annoying that they use that pull quote from Robert Ashley, as though he's seen this production. It's high praise coming from another avant-garde opera person, but he died in 2014 and was obviously talking about some other project they did. (Probably their take on his Automatic Writing - https://www.youtube.com/wat…

That's cuz you still playin' with duplo.

I am irrationally annoyed by this whole covfefe thing. It was supposed to say "coverage." It's just so…dumb. Dumb President does dumb thing, film at 11.

Yeah, I remember the initial assumption was that it was the perfect brinksmanship move, because Iraq certainly wouldn't acquiesce to the inspections and they'd be able to move ahead with their invasion within a week or two. And then…it didn't work.

Oh sure, I was in NYC and of course it was very emotional, and there was sometimes a temptation to say "fuck it, to make an omelette you gotta break some eggs," whether it was in regards to the Muslim community here in the city or countries in the middle east. I can certainly remember thinking like Dan, that just…

Yes but - the stakes seemed pretty clear in the few months that inspections had failed and yet we were definitely going in anyway. Then it did fall along party lines, pretty much. There were some giant marches against the war. Colin Powell's presentation to the UN was blatantly stupid (and he supposedly knew it.) …

Meh, I think the sound of Tom Petty droning away in the background would kill my appetite.