Agreed. Wind-up Bird Chronicle really sucked me in. Murakami's prose style works better against the supernatural trappings of Wind-up Bird or Kafka than it does against something more prosaic like Norwegian Wood.

Nah, I'm totally over that. I have a lot of practice!
I'm just sitting back, opening a Budweiser, and looking forward to four years of schadenfreude at the expense of Trump voters.

In a twist, it turns out that the neo-Nazis hate Muslims even more than they hate Jews.

We have a government of Confederates and Nazis, with Russia pulling the strings. It's like every war that we thought we'd won, we actually lost.
Except, apparently, the Mexican-American war.

You're assuming that people vote based on an assessment of how much they agree with a candidate's policy proposals. I think there are a lot of people who just wanted an authoritarian white guy and weren't paying very close attention to what he said.

This reminds of the scene in The Man in the High Castle where they get you to root for Himmler.

"They were handcuffed in the back of a patrol car and posed a huge threat so he was shot in the head,"

We should return Thanksgiving to its original meaning: celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy.

Buffalo Trace is good. They also make a heavenly bourbon cream liqueur.
However, my favorite bourbon right now is Angel's Envy.

We may be scavenging for cans of dog food in a radioactive hellscape, but at least we have Stranger Things 2 to look forward to!

So, to sum up your argument: "I personally get satisfaction from putting my biological child to bed, so no one could possibly gain the same satisfaction from putting a nephew to bed, even if that was the norm for their culture."
Not convinced.

And in this culture, aunts and uncles play the role of "parents", so children would have the same emotional attachment to them that we do to our parents. I don't see the problem.

First, that's not answering my question. Does anyone really think that raising your neplings is less fulfilling than raising your biological children?
Second, there was nothing about "force" in the article: " Fathers are generally involved in their children’s lives, but not as day-to-day parental figures, and are less…

I'm pretty sure the last two weeks have been way worse that W's first two weeks.

Why is involvement in your biological children's lives intrinsically more fulfilling than involvement in your neplings' lives?
I think that it is @avclub-ade723a6815e7dffd777dfb9719c8ad3:disqus and @sgtexposition:disqus who are projecting their western experiences: since they don't live the way we do, their lives must…

synesthesia!

Is that the one with the jewel thief?

I believe that's called the White House twitter feed.

Right, it was the New York Times that got Trump elected, which explains why he won New York by such large margins.

Would it count if I drank the Czech Budweiser rather than the American one?