hildog? seriously a halfway decent president? seriously?

I mean, you could literally say that about anything bad Trump does, couldn’t you.

White supremacists by their world view lack empathy, remorse, and they see those they hate as less then nothing. Yet he wants leniency.

It’s fairly common in New York, especially if the place does small plates or has a prix fixe option.

Had to go to a classical music concert in Boston and didn’t know the area.  It was the middle of winter with three feet of snow piled up everywhere, so roving about was pretty much out of the question. The only thing open late within sight of the hotel was a Cheesecake Factory, and the wait for a table was an hour and…

I mean, pop music has always been terrible, you can find offensively dumb hit songs from every year in the history of the record biz.

This is supposed to be the big contract where they do something to narrow the gap between adjuncts and full-timers. They made a lot of noise about “$7K or strike” for a while (meaning that they intended to double the minimum pay per course.)

he sounds like one of those guys who doesn’t wear socks

I teach college, and I’ve started giving trigger warnings about material that is perhaps unexpectedly dark. (One piece I teach in my intro class features suicide, another sexual assault.) I mention it orally at the end of class on, say, a Tuesday, and then we watch the thing on Thursday.

Hm, if these third-party delivery guys are so numerous and constantly present, wouldn’t it make sense to just have their own delivery guy? Is there some GrubHub rule that (in the suburbs) you CAN’T use your own guy?

The war for clicks debases us all, there can be no winners.

Yeah, looking at the vid it does look like she is the one who fucked up. They haven’t really started to turn yet and she is pointed into his path.

Eh, there are intersections where two lanes are allowed to turn right. In that situation the drivers are supposed to match up their lanes: the right-most turner goes into the right-most lane, the person in the next lane over goes into the next-most-right one, and so on.

“completely checked out” barely covers the ennui that’s almost visible on screen from him

Serious answer - chopsticks. You are already grazing like some dumb herbivore, so picking up tiny bites one at a time becomes very pleasant and relaxing with chops. You can stir up your salad like you’ve got tongs. Deftly handles the crouton problem. You have way more control over how much you pick up and it feels…

she’s the only one who knows how to smile.

Lately I’m struck by how many things are run badly, by truly mediocre people.

Spinoff of the literary magazine Pithfork.

hahahahahahaha, the “geographic majority.”

650,000 folks, approximately the number of people who live in Boston Metropolitan