Excellent, thank you for the recommendation. I love reading about how these disasters unfold behind the scenes. Have you read The Devil’s Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood?

Chances are, there are certain situations that are more likely to light their tempers on fire.

I like the way you think.

I’m reminded of Seth Meyer’s reaction when Biden named some cabinet positions - looking forward to never hearing about these people again as they competently go about their jobs.

You’re absolutely right.

As a kid I loved your Maleficents and your Jafars, but as an adult I always find villains most memorable when their motivations are realistic and purely petty.

Every time I read “Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)“.

During the period of the three Ansei earthquakes from 1854-60, Namazu became a popular character for parody in print and stage. Insert joke about cosplay being eternal here.
(Kyosai Kawanabe and Robun Kanagaki, performing in 1855)

The first date I went on with my now-wife. We met and live in a quite remote town; it’s at least 2 hours drive to the next town with more than 1,000 people. My wife’s nephew had his birthday and out of nowhere wanted to go bowling. So we all piled into my future SIL’s car and drove 120 miles to the nearest bowling…

Growing their own food further reduces the cost of feeding inmates. Getting them to prepare the food reduces it even more. Both of which reduces paying jobs to non-inmates.

My friend group had a vote and decided we would have jammed a toothpick in the lock from the inside, kept quiet and enjoyed a free second apartment. We couldn’t agree if we would use the extra space for a small-storage business or a lasertag arena.

I’d maybe say those are more historical depictions? Native Americans did once commonly dress like that, but don’t anymore.

I admit we’ve been thinking about this as well. Suess and PD Eastman did a brilliant picture dictionary for beginning readers. There are only 2 entries for any kind of ethnicity, Eskimo and Indian, and the pictures are stereotyped but basically just very simplified illustrations of people just standing. The kind of…

And Dr. Seuss’ first book under his pseudonym, To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, features a character referred to as a “Chinaman who eats with sticks,” who is wearing a conical hat and has bright yellow skin.

Chopped tomato, chickpeas, corn and red kidney beans. The only one with anything besides the veg and water is the tomato, added citric acid.

None of the canned veg we buy has added salt - I didn’t even know that was a thing until I read this article. But we live outside the US.

In my experience, the labels don’t always make it easy to identify a canned fruit or vegetable that hasn’t been pre-salted or doused in syrup.

Is this a regional thing? We live in the UK. I just got the canned vegetables from our pantry and they’re all just veg and water, except the tomato which also had citric…

I’ve gotten some snide comments from other parents along the lines of “thanks, we all forgot Clean-up Time is in 10 minutes lol”.

Peeps are delicious at Easter and unforgivable any other time of the year. Why make some many spin-off holiday versions? Let sleeping peeps lie.

Easy, just flick their off switch.