That quote is somewhat surprising, given that she came to the US at 17 as part of an arranged marriage, one that she would leave after “several years of struggling”. Then again, sometimes arranged marriages turn out great.

I agree that defense contractors got paid. But was that wealth transfer out of Afghanistan?  Or from US taxpayers and from a huge increase in debt?

Feminist lobbying did not make the US invade Afghanistan. It did, however, provide cover on the left (however you’d like to construe that) for a war of conquest, occupation, and exploitation.

Eggs: hell no.

That question assumes the serving size is one cookie. Some people can do that. For me, the answer is: eat one the first way. The next, the second way. The third, dunked in milk. Repeat until sick.

Makes sense. I’ve been to the Astoria park but not McCarren. I’d wanted to see a few shows there but it didn’t happen. From the YouTube clips, it looks like it had really fallen apart. Glad to see it’s been restored.

Wow.  As if pools in the middle of the desert weren’t bad enough as is.

The header image is the Astoria pool though, right?

I tried to ungray your response to me, with no luck.  Kinja is terrible.

Twice a day is understandable in a Florida summer.  What about winter, or if you stay inside all day?

That’s nice, but coffins and headstones seem to be a waste, and embalming fluid can’t be good for the environment. Put me in a pod, and let my body nourish a tree.

If you went to Northwestern, I’d assume many of the students came from outside the Chicago area, and they either didn’t care about finding good pizza, or simply went to someplace familiar from home.

“Is that true?” - Chris Farley, staring around the 3:00 mark.

Jock meatheads were into Slayer?

Not really, this seems to be a new phenomenon: cold drinks made up a whopping 74% of Starbucks’ total beverage sales in the third quarter. For context, that’s up from 64% two years ago and just 37% in 2013.

I would have thought that the “see your suite attendant to order” would have made this pretty clear, but I guess not.

That’s straight out of The Office.

“We need unifiers and not vilifiers, people who argue hard and act hard for what they truly believe, but always with civility and never ad hominem attacks,” said Bezos. “And unfortunately we live in a world where this is too often not the case.”

Singer and new parent Halsey found some time during her child’s nap time

I do like chimichurri sauce. I’ve never made it, but I’ve had it twice, once on the side with steak frites, the other with skirt, and it paired well with both. The addition of all the herbs does turn it into a pretty good sauce.