A smallish omelette bar where the cubed melon is starting to turn and the mini muffins are stale and they ran out of orange juice 15 minutes after opening. Why yes, I have stayed at a Comfort Inn, and I assume Mar-a-Lago is the same but on a much gaudier scale.

From Fred G:

Please tell me that’s Chico’s 40. My previous dog used to go crazy when I cracked an ice tray. She loved to chew on ice cubes. When I’d have people over and I was whipping up the drinks they’d observe this. I’d tell them she was waiting for her whiskey sour to take the edge off a very stressful day.

Department of Justice Rick-rolling is the best Rick-rolling.

I grew up in an overwhelmingly Catholic town and the public schools never served meat on Fridays, and not just during Lent. This was post-Vatican II, not the 1840s.

JFK, I guess because they get so many out-of-towners, is a surprising repository of all kinds of things. The first Starbucks I ever encountered was at JFK and I lived in Manhattan, still do, where Starbucks are now as ubiquitous as overflowing trash cans and subway delays.

You have a great username and led me to google to remember why the name Soleil Moon Frye sounded so familiar. Here’s what I learned from wikipedia:

And AOC won that primary despite being ignored by the mass media, most notoriously the New York Times. She was seen as a young bartender running a quixotic campaign against an entrenched establishment Democrat who was following the rules and slowly making his way to the top leadership position.

I think Pelosi might have been thinking of the Justice Democrats. There are seven of them at this point, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Ro Khanna being the others I can remember off the top of my head.

If you’re a fan of 1980s music:

Have you ever read J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground? Busing in Boston in the 1970s, what could go wrong? It’s a wonderful book.

I thought the argument about the jobs was the opposite: the jobs would involve sitting in a new “campus” (blarrgh) and they’d be white-collar office jobs and probably pretty specific to the industry, like supply chain management and data analytics and stuff like that. The feeling was they’d be importing a lot of…

Maybe it was politic’s in The Federalist Papers. But I think they went for Politicks.

I think he was using the wrong verb, not dropping one. Swap “spare” for “prevent.”

Have you ever given your dogs salmon jerky? I give it to my dog every once in a while and his eyes practically roll out of his head: he is transported to culinary bliss. 

She probably found it at a swap meet and is convinced it is made from wood from The True Cross. Why it only cost $5 and wound up at a swap meet, rather than, say, the Vatican Museums, is probably something she’d rather not dwell on.

I bet at least one of the guys owns a football, but probably not an NFL franchise team. Plus, Kraft isn’t accused of “soliciting sodomy,” which is a very Victorian term, just a handie or two from his accommodating masseuse.

This actually isn’t as strange as it seems. The station this happened at, 28th St/7th Avenue, is at the epicenter of New York’s shrinking Flower District. There is, or was, a place on the corner that sold trees like these, you kind of had to walk through them to get into one of the station entrances if they were…

How do your grandparents pronounce the word “mittens” or “kitten”, if you’ve ever heard them say this? I had a Boston-born grandmother who did the glottle stop. She also pronounced “film” as “fill-um.” And “theater” as “thee-ay-tah,” but she wasn’t imitating Downton Abbey, that was just a Boston thing she grew up…

I’ll name one.