I appreciate your, and the other commenters, reassuring me that there are sane perspectives left. The controversy the author alludes to is the identity-based criticism the author wants to personally advance.

I had to go to great lengths to re-find this article when using my laptop so I could actually log in to this curses comment platform just so I could star this comment for being a blessed island of sanity.

No less auspicious a public figure than Ta-Nehisi Coates tweeted, after viewing the live 30 Rock episode with John…

I miss Vanessa.

I’m relieved to find a couple not-total-idiots haunting this comment thread. I suffered through the first part along with everybody else. When that turned out to be the *point* of the entire concept, I gave SNL writers a golf clap for creativity. Not every beat of the follow-up was hilarious, but—as the review…

The main reason to stir, rather than shake, martinis and other cocktails that involve vermouth but do not involve citrus is so that you don’t turn the drink muddy and frothy. It won’t taste bad, but it won’t look attractive.

The main reason we DO shake cocktails with citrus is that citrus juice is already cloudy, so…