According to David Farenthold of the WaPo — who’s made a beat out of Trump’s charity work (or lack thereof) — he did send a personal check for $100K, which is (just barely) a six-figure amount.

No, that isn’t what the SCOTUS rulings say. The rulings simply provide that we the people do not have a Constitutional right to police protection. Failure to enforce a restraining order or protect schoolchildren from an active shooter may be a violation of the cop’s job duties and may be a violation of state law…

Not sure that’s true in HR’s case. He didn’t have to accept the appointment. I’m sure he may have felt duty-bound to do so, and maybe he thought that he could ‘educate’ the 70-year-old toddler-in-chief. But he may have been better off (for his own sake, not necessarily America’s) taking a pass. 

Molecular gastronomy/modernist cuisine/whatever you want to call it is still a pretty small niche in the culinary world. Immersion circulators are becoming ubiquitous, but I think that has more to do with cooking precision. And the Instant Pot is just a fancy pressure cooker. I think the use of xantham gum and other…

Agreed, but if it’s a bar exam question, Cena would run over the salesman’s foot on the way off the lot, or a tree would fall on the hood of the car between his paying the purchase price and receiving the car. Or some ludicrous BS like that.

Wylie certainly is a molecular gastronomy practitioner, but I believe Adria and elBulli (as well as Heston Blumenthal and Fat Duck in the UK) predate wd~50. (I ate at wd~50 years ago and it was amazing.)

Why the Mercers supported Trump:

Bojack Horseman did an episode on it, though not quite as on the nose as you propose. Still, it’s a bitingly funny episode. (Season 4, Episode 5, “Thoughts and Prayers”)

The Second Amendment does not prohibit firearms regulation. Even in Heller, SCOTUS (in an opinion written by Scalia) stated that “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” But the NRA’s lackies in Congress have refused to take any action on firearms regulation, hiding behind the 2A and Heller and…

but can Ford legally commit a car to Cena?

Uh, no. elBulli was one of the most famous restaurants and most sought-after reservations in the world. Adria’s food was revolutionary and he is credited with leading the molecular gastronomy/modernist cuisine movement. You can see some of his dishes here. 

It is not a “sous vide”. It is an immersion circulator, which allows you to cook sous vide. 

But the language isn’t “This is the final agreement and no other previous agreements are final”. Rather, it states “This is the final agreement between the parties...”, i.e., Elder Ford of Tampa and Cena’s company. So that language should not negate the agreements between Ford Motor Co. and Cena, as FMC was not a…

You can buy a BMW X series (manufactured in Spartanburg, SC) and pick it up at the Performance Center next door. But you’re still ordering through and paying an authorized BMW dealership.

Holy crap, that’s Alan from Sesame Street!! I had no idea he made an appearance on Curb. (Why yes, I do have 2 small children, why do you ask?)

I’m the exact opposite. I had a Moto running Android a few phones ago, then moved to the iphone, and now I don’t know if I’d go back. (Android apps crashed a lot, and the battery life was horrible.) So when I was in the market for a new laptop, I decided to get a MBP. And I HATE it. MS Office for Mac is not as…

You certainly can use table salt for sauces, etc., but if you’re working off a a recipe, definitely cut back on the quantity: a tablespoon of Diamond Crystal kosher salt is 9g, whereas a tablespoon of table salt is 18g — 2x the mass! (Maldon is 7g per tablespoon.) As I understand it, most professional recipes are…

If you’re using Maldon for anything other than sprinkling on a finished product, you (objectively) have more of a salt budget than I and (subjectively) are doing it wrong. Maldon is way too expensive to mix into something you’re cooking/baking, and the the benefit of using Maldon over kosher salt in that situation woul…

Look for Siggi’s. It’s “Icelandic-style”yogurt, which (based solely on Siggi’s) is thicker than even Greek yogurt. It’s pretty damn thick, and should manage the upside-down test fine. It too is expensive, at least more than your Chobanis and Oikoses.

ETA: I guess one could interpret the #blackhistorymonth2018 as him pulling the race card, but I did not.