It suddenly occurs to me that Paul F Tompkins should’ve gotten a guest host shot at it. He’s even got the mustache!

There’s a pretty broad gulf between finding someone distasteful and loudly, publicly hating them. The latter shouldn’t be done lightly.

People really piled on him for this. I saw it everywhere. I don’t understand that. For me, the story is very clearly indicative of his mother being a toxic figure in his life.

I regret to inform you that this is McDonald’s Philippines location :(

Yeah, really, I don’t get how anybody reads that as anything but bitter and pointlessly confrontational.

A lot of people (both on the left and right) complain about “security theater” in the wake of 9/11 — the way we have to take off our shoes, not pack water, not be able to go through security as a non-passenger to meet arriving friends and relatives at their gate or to keep them company before their plane leaves the…

Doesn’t work for baking. (Or sausage, but a lot more people bake.) And it’s tricky for pasta sauces. (Since they’re going onto one of the inherently blandest things in the pantry, a properly seasoned pasta sauce tastes overseasoned.)

Too many recipes say that without giving a starting point, leaving beginners to guess. 

You could certainly be confused in fall of 2013. Bill Cosby’s fall from grace happened at the end of 2014 (prompted by a Hannibal Buress clip going viral, of all things). Bill Cosby was still putting out comedy specials at the end of 2013 and generally thought of as an adorable elderly figure, going on the talk show…

[sic] is a notation of when a misspelling is intentional, almost always used when quoting something. In this case, it’s a quote from the lawsuit.

Also, as I got that part of the review I wondered-- did they have time travel technology already when the aliens arrived and eventually decided to use it for this weird recruitment idea, or did they invent the tech during the war? And if the latter, wouldn’t everyone have been busy with all the aliens?

When hot, they are the quintessential cheapo “I had this as a kid so I love it forever” fast food nugget — not remotely great, but good in that way fast food can be, that ephemeral experience.

From Costco’s website: “Business Memberships allow you to purchase products for business, personal, and resale use at any Costco Wholesale location worldwide and online at Costco.com.” (https://www.costco.com/business-membership—-new-member.product.3165.html)

And, I would add, less interested in this web site.

Now, almost a full week later, Kemper has finally decided to respond to the controversy by posting a statement on Instagram in which she distances herself from “the organization” (she doesn’t name it) and says that she “was old enough” at the time to have learned about it before getting involved.

It’s a good apology. Mine would probably sound like:

I love how the article tries to insinuate that it was terrible that she took a week to respond to this manufactured controversy. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

• The left creates a term to discuss a real issue.

“But no one is steering the ship so it goes in some nasty directions some times.”

The way I see it... The right wing echo chamber has created a myth about “cancel culture” being some organized conspiracy all the liberal elites in the media and universities are engaged in. That’s what I think of when I hear “cancel culture doesn’t exist.” Because there’s no “conspiracy”, it’s a social trend.