You get all the stars because no one references M*A*S*H anymore, and I loved it.

Yes, you are cooking the meat by flash frying it in oil. An alternative is poaching in court bouillon for the more health conscious. . . but this is the way a fondue main course is done at places like The Melting Pot, and it seems like they were recreating this experience.

Grew up in Atlanta, and can not only attest to this, but actually do it all the time without thinking about it.

Well, it makes sense, because your description pretty well matched my experience also. I don’t think generations who have grown up after the end of the cold war can grasp the pervasive effect it had on the zeitgeist of the young, especially in the jingoistic Reagan years.

*puts fingers in ears*

All American politicians are big legacy guys. It’s a side effect of the mental state it takes to survive the election process.

We didn’t want to Russia into it too quickly.

Completely true - after all this time, someone can just utter the words “suck it, Trebek” and I come unglued laughing.

+1 simply for vividness of description, a well-painted picture.

Yeah, I do recognize how firmly first-world that particular problem is, but they want to put new siding on the buildings and it is going to cost a fortune and right now they are just pissing me off.

That’s one of the (numerous) reasons School Buses aren’t treated like city buses in terms of laws about stopping for them and required lights on them. . .because children are not tiny adults, and as a society we have decided that they warrant extra protection as they learn adult vigilance.

Yeah I agree with this. sometimes I am inconvenienced by School Buses and School Zones - enough to bitch and make bombastic statements about what they should change. But I’m not, now or ever, going to risk a kid’s life to prove my point or whatever. I mean I get pissed off at my condo board but I don’t burn down the…

Apparently, they pulled it out of a white Bravada - zing!

I think, probably, that it is better than being in the same situation and not having had that experience.

Yes, the story is much more well-rounded.

1. It was an example of whay a conversation about prioritizing kids in relation to other relationships is not a ridiculous conversation.

Wasn’t the name Crips originally an acronym for something like community re-investment program or something like that?

Laughed so hard at this. So venomous, and yet so wonderful.

Well, I pretty much agree this whole thing is a game of semantics that is silly to play. I also think without being more specific about what constitutes emotional needs, especially versus emotional wants, if you will. All of this is age-sensitive too - there are a lot of variables.

I do, and I agree with him 100%