It’s true. I mean my parents were never liberals or anything (my dad worked for Reagan and my parents met at a teenage Republicans convention) but like they were WAYYYYY more moderate than they are now. A steady diet of Fox News has sent them both (but especially my mom) careening to like a hairsbreadth left of the…

Well, it’s sort of OK since, according to the NYTimes review, apparently Tom Robinson was acquitted in the new book.

I mean what Atticus Finch stands for is his profound devotion and belief in the rule of law. That’s why he couldn’t morally tolerate this attempt to frame Tom Robinson for rape and the town’s thirst to lynch him. At the same time, To Kill a Mockingbird was set in 1930’s Alabama. The “rule of law” there incorporated…

Srsly, its one thing to judge people who are just doing them, living their truth, and not hurting anyone in the process. It’s another fucking thing to judge someone accused of drugging and raping over 40 women and using his fame, money, and power to escape all criminal and civil liability for decades.

Yeah except, Britney sold out many arena tours in her day and Iggy Azalea had to cancel her first one. Britney may be slightly in the has been day of her career, but she makes bank from her Vegas shows and the closest Iggy’s every going to get to one of those is if she buys a ticket.

EXACTLY. Which is why I remand this case to Shade Court so Judge Brown can rexamine the mastery of this hashtag. Maybe its still too much, but like the more you peel away the layers the shadier it becomes.

YASSSSSS Barrio Cafe is so amazing. My parents live 15 minutes from there so we go every time I visit and every other tableside guacamole makes my heart sad now.

No, but there really isn’t glorious Tex-Mex food (which is a legit cuisine despite what the haters say) outside of Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona...

There’s actually a lot of really great authentic Mexican/Central American food in NYC, you just have to go to the outer boroughs to get it. It’s not really all that different than LA, you don’t really expect to find authentic Mexican food in the middle of the West Side or anything, you kind of have to go to the…

Seriously you guys, leave Melissa Clark alone! She even starts the article with the mea culpa that she too had never dabbled in the dark arts of messing with basic guacamole until she tried the guacamole at ABC Cocina, which is where she got the recipe. She’s typically all about the basics done right, so if she liked…

The fact that it specifically focused on private parties suggests to me that their contract probably was clumsy at describing the service charge as what it was, aka not a gratuity (which they made clear the one time I splurged to eat there) and instead could have been construed to be understood as a gratuity. Some…

I’m not so sure it was as evil as this post makes it out to be. There was a fascinating tell-all book, called Service Included, by a former Per Se waitress who was there when this service charge was introduced. She described how there was a lot of tension among the staff when this happened. The back-of-the-house staff…

The top-paid waitstaff at Per Se apparently make more than $100k per year, so this isn’t like wage theft or anything.

The top paid waitstaff at Per Se make more than $100k, and they make way more than most waiters do in the industry per hour, so my heart doesn’t really bleed for them. If the service charges are going to “operational costs” like lining Thomas Keller’s pockets, thats not OK, but in my experience fancy restaurants that…

Oh wow I will treasure the comments to your post forever. Or else Poe’s Law strikes again!

I agree with you that the evidence of Asian-American discrimination at top colleges is troubling, but the UT plan in question isn’t really a quota. It merely grants admissions to any Texan who graduates at the top 10% of their public high school. If anything, this system should likely benefit Asian-Americans similar…

In her defense, she seems like more of a pawn in her attorney’s long campaign to take down affirmative action than anything else. He’s a close family friend who somehow convinced her and her family to take part in this, which would explain why, given her numbers, she’s not really the best case.

Here’s what I don’t get. The Top 10% program has never been just about providing greater access to minorities, although that ends up happening, its also about providing greater access to the UT system to ALL Texans. It prevents UT Austin from being wholly dominated by students from wealthy suburbs of Dallas, Houston,…

I get that, but I trust Amy Heckerling to make it work if anybody can. Also, at the end of the day, a shitty Broadway musical version of a classic movie is way easier to ignore and way less destructive to the legacy of said movie than a shitty paint-by-numbers remake. If it’s bad, no one will see it and it will close…

It’s LAX. There’s a tunnel under one of the runways that allows a road to go through the airport.