Need a Perot type to give Republicans a way to splinter off Trump (Ron Johnson come back!). Even then, you need Democrats to not splinter in a thousand different directions or take their ball and go home because someone took a nuanced approach on something.

The problem with In Memoriam, as well, is that the list is only going to get longer as Boomers start dropping in droves. We’re at that end of the road for the early phases of the heart of Hollywood’s Golden Age through the ‘70s.

Honestly, since they are doing just Academy members (which is why some celebrities are…

Subaru Crosstrek Plugin Hybrid is quickly becoming the car I am willing to abandon Toyota for on my next purchase. This Highlander just looks taller and a lot more gas thirsty to me.

Disagree. The 24-hour news cycle completely changed the way we handle political discourse in this country. It made it easier not to talk to each other. I know that in the Millennial world the concept of giving a shit about people who don’t live in big cities seems foreign, but there was a time that it wasn’t so…

Quad Cities is a fucking depressing place. I imagine it’s what Des Moines was before the insurance companies had to make the place livable to attract anyone to work here.

Well, 70-year-old farmer was raised in a time when you could (and should) do that. But these days. Yeah. Just keep them on TV and tell me which one I’m supposed to vote for, media overlords! :eyeroll:

The caucuses are bad. The state is not representative. But your reasoning is, at best, flawed.

Yeah. The “Dur, but it’s a gas station” take is wrong. Casey’s and Kum & Go are both better than Little Caesar’s or Domino’s. Running away.

except it’s more racist.

CA/NY person relocated to Iowa. Yes. They do.

My 6th grader recently discovered this series and loves it. Between Colfer’s series and Neil Patrick Harris’ “Magic Misfits” series, two decent kid litoptions written by previous television stars.

See, I use that to clean the mesh, too (and I fall asleep with them in so occasionally there is some gunk). I just never seem to have a problem getting it out with just a q-tip. To each their own. Just seems needlessly complicated.

As a grad student, I remember going uptown to the homecoming game (which was attended by roughly 200ish people). Having spent my undergrad years making weekly trips to the Rose Bowl, my new grad school buddy (an $C alum) and I found the whole experience to be more akin to a well-funded high school program.

Where you can take comm college classes through the high school in 11th and 12th grade and work on your AA basically for free. It’s called other names in other places, I think. Here, if you play your cards right you can basically be done with an AA by hs graduation.

taking a cotton swab and dampening it ever-so-slightly with 70% rubbing alcohol and running it gently over the plastic parts of the buds and the top crevices of the case

Again, not paying SUPER close attention to this story. But I believe someone tipped off the paper. It wasn’t some crusade.

To be fair, if one of these two was more of a story, it’s the band story. Again, mountain out of a molehill stuff. But a more problematic story than Beer Can Carson.

Not only did school quality impact our choice moving to a part of the country where we had no geographical or social parameters (other than like being near modern amenities) but also the quality of the district. Dual-enrollment is a huge benefit that our kids will have access to when they get to high school and really…

Because, in the end, every Carson King or Maddie Poppe or Chris Soules or Brandon Routh or Shawn Johnson or Jason Momoa or Ashton Kucher isn’t just an individual. Each one is a cultural and emotional avatar carrying the heart and soul of every Iowan where anywhere else they’d just be a “celebrity.” But if anything…

No. The reporter doesn’t blow. He’s doing his job. The blowback at the Register on this is just ridiculous. He’s not a hypocrite, either (see “doing his job”). He’s just some other stupid schmuck who wagged his ass around on social media so that Mike Cernovich (yes, that fucking asshole has time to come be a factor in…

I’ve done well to avoid the finer details of this story and only catch the wafting fumes of the dumpster fire. But that would not surprise me.