That last one is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a while. Sounds like it was written by a Calvinist (not the kind that includes Hobbes). I guess if you believe that everything is predestined, then you can say that all the money you have is already predetermined and you can’t affect that, but then so is your spending.

No comment on the date being today, while Bolton keeps saying he resigned yesterday? Or is that a different article?

Except it has changed, several times this year. The signature sandwiches are gone, the international menu items are in. New international items are coming, and the current ones will leave soon.

All of the Chick-Fil-A stans out there need to come to Utah and experience the place here. I went to one a few weeks back. The place was only about a third full, so it wasn’t overwhelmingly busy. They had someone taking orders on a tablet at the start of the line. Then when we got to the counter, they tried taking the…

If someone is the next LeBron, then they would already be known in high school and just waiting for their one year before moving on to the NBA. That person already has some fame, doesn’t really need college to be drafted, and could get some endorsements already. So why wouldn’t they go to a California school and make…

Swimming culture is weird. My niece is about to go to college on a swim scholarship. In her last meet with her club, she was getting a wedgie, and other parents objected. One guy blocked her from getting to her starting blocks and she missed her final race. He said something about she shouldn’t be allowed to swim like…

Their pizzas are not ready in 3 minutes. It probably takes 3 minutes to just go through the process of getting the pizza ordered, and then more time for it to cook. Might 3 minutes be the actual time in the oven? Sure, could be, as it’s a pretty thin crust. But I’ve never seen it take less than 5 minutes from…

I had no idea I needed that. Thanks!

Y’know what? I don’t care any more. He hasn’t come anywhere close to Trumpian levels of making shit up, so I just can’t get worked up about this. Would he be a bad president? Sure. Does crap like this make it clear he would be a bad president? Absolutely. Is there any possibility that he would be a worse president…

Did you happen to catch the article about banana peel bacon?

Of course it was Trump. Anyone other than Trump could have at least looked at it and realized that the area that may be affected doesn’t suddenly narrow down at the most extreme end. For some reason, that bugs me more than anything else in this particular mess - at least make an attempt to make it look real.

Almost all of the words you have listed have specific meanings, and a lot of that meaning is lost when you use simpler words with different meanings.

You’re probably right - for there to be any justice in the world, the current batch of cops in the US need to all stop doing that job.

A year or two back, we watched every adaptation of a King work that we could find, in chronological order. It was amazing how bad some of the earliest ones were - Firestarter was the worst, we decided.

I had never heard of that game before now, but that box copy makes me think of King’s story “The Word Processor of the Gods”. 

Two articles on Stephen King stuff, and you still haven’t talked about his music video collaboration with Michael Jackson - Ghosts. King and Mick Garris wrote it, and at the time it ended up being the most expensive music video ever made, with Jackson paying for every bit of it. Jackson plays like five roles in it. It…

Don’t most Weird Al songs end up being shorter than the actual version? I know The Saga Begins is substantially shorter, and a quick check shows me that Tacky is a full minute shorter than Happy, and Eat It is a full minute shorter than Beat It. Amish Paradise is 40 seconds shorter than Gangsta’s Paradise.

When pushed to elaborate by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Goldman said: “I didn’t realize he does that,” Biden said, referring to Goldman’s fossil fuel involvement. “I was told if you look at the SEC filings he’s not listed as one of those executives. That’s what we look at. The SEC filings. Who are those executives?”

Am I the only one who read that headline as millennials would actually be driving the old vets to the place where they wanted to shot people, since the vets probably are to old to drive a car?

I know people who swear by the Coke they get from McDonald’s - something about the mixture makes it the perfect version of Coke. These people would never consider not getting a Coke at McD’s.