Well shit. I drank a lot of Anchor Steam throughout my 20s, and I’ve been missing it after I moved out of California. There’s a nice specialty beer and sandwich place I like to treat myself to once in a while that has beer caps encased in resin in the table tops, and sitting in a booth last time looking at all the…

There’s no non-gruesome way to have state sanctioned murder. That being said, the success rate of a firing squad for a quick and successful execution just isn’t matched. The process of obtaining the drugs many states were using for execution was jammed up a while back by manufacturers and import companies refusing to…

I do strive to be like my grandma. She traveled the world, and lived in both Fiji and Kenya for periods of time. She is in her 90s and still goes for hikes and swims, sings in a symphony choir (which happens to be lead by my high school music teacher), hangs out with her friends, and is one of the better cooks in the…

I don’t want to be stubborn on this point. I come from a family of Michiganders, so I have grown up around a weird batch of people who have always had pride for Jerry Ford. But on the other hand I’ve also been oddly fascinated by Watergate since I was in high school and they made us watch “All the President’s Men” in…

I know that’s the story as presented as to why Ford issued the pardon, but Watergate and the White House Plumbers weren’t the first to engage in shenanigans in the pursuit of election, so I don’t fully buy that Ford thought they would be the last. As far as “healing the nation” goes, that was met with a mixed…

Anyone else find themselves directing some of their anger at Gerry Ford over this? If he hadn’t pardoned Nixon there’s a version of this in which Trump isn’t the first ex-Prez to face all these trials and we have a damn roadmap to follow. 

You’re right, of course. Although the court has declared that money is equal to speech, that the government matching money in campaigns is an infringement on corporate and private funders free speech, and that free association is also speech. I’m not saying that it makes a good case, what I’m saying is the court will…

I’ve been listening to too much about how fucked up the law is lately and... well, non-compete clauses suck. And while a lot of bad has already happened from allowing this man to open his mouth, I think more good can happen from non-compete clauses everywhere becoming an illegal infringement on free speech. Carlson is…

Why you bringing Guy Fieri into this? His wife is only 4 years younger than him and they married when they were both in their 20s.

Or, alternatively, never bought or planned to buy anything from Starbucks in the first place.

Studies have shown that the best tipped servers tend to be large busted white women in their 30s, so I don’t think tips pooled based on customer service ranking would do anything but perpetuate discrimination issues already embedded in tipped professions.

I think it’s pretty telling how little effort and engagement this site has been getting, and I did find it fun when there was more volume and space for news about stuff and people that I’ve never heard of before. That being said, I don’t believe that correlates at all with coverage of mainstream celebrities as it has…

I’m trying to remember this era you’re talking about. I’ve been reading this website for a little over a decade and there’s a lot I miss about how it used to be (Hate Song, more and better reviews of TV episodes including shows that had long since stopped airing, a section I could click on that was just previews of…

Just read somewhere that the two final dates (not the family meetings, the other ones) were aired out of order (so Gabi was actually first), which does change things a bit in relation to that conversation that Gabi and Zach had. 

In all fairness to all the heartbroken women in their early to mid 20s on the Bachelor, shooting that show really messes with a person. Cut off from family and friends, deprived of internet and TV, unable to just leave the shoot and go for a walk, totally at the mercy of producers... I can’t imagine that it’s a place…

Yeah, I think this show would be best at an hour (and that’s not including commercials). They can stretch the premier and the Tell All to 2 hours and at least sort of justify it, but 2 hours is a really long fucking time. 

Maybe if that’s what they agreed upon in the room? Which would be why Gabi referred to the night as a “cuddle sesh” initially. But it was pretty clear in their filmed conversation that he was intent on telling people what happened and was just giving her a heads up (if he hadn’t went to Gabi ahead of time that would…

I know this show sets a low bar for standard of comparison, but I begrudgingly have to acknowledge Zach’s attempts to be considerate. He gave Gabi a heads up as to what he was about to do and made a go at comforting her about both his lack of shame at what they did and his need to be honest. And he approached both…

I didn’t think it was impossible, just really really really lucky. My issue is more that overall births as shown in post-apocalyptic and sci-fi fiction tend to be really quick. Most of the time it seems the TV shows where women take a long time to give birth are sitcoms (and occasionally dramas) where they can just be…

I don’t think we’re given enough information to make that judgement call, and ultimately, even if the Fireflies would be better rulers, it would never make that motivation pure. The issue is that Marlene is selling this plan as some sort of selfless sacrifice, when it is obviously not. The best comparison I can think…