THANK GOD THEY PULLED IT! I don’t like seeing people in horrible pain. I’ve worked as a nurse. I’ve worked in hospitals. I spent a year doing hospice care for a woman who died of breast cancer. It hurts to see someone suffering and not be able to do anything about it. I have sometimes had to deal with it but only a per…

What the bleep? None of the women in that photo is wearing anything that is green by even the most generous description.

The system is working exactly as designed. The system is intended to funnel huge amounts of money into the pockets of defense contractors and the legislators who accept their bribes. Equipping troops is something never appears on the radar of Congressmen, the vast majority of whom are cowards and chickenhawks led by…

There have never been any limits to how low people will stoop in order to steal, and there never will be. I firmly believe that stealing more than a certain amount, or stealing from certain sources (like TANF funds) should be a capital crime. When you pull @%#$ like this, you cause untold human suffering. People die…

They flew there, of course. Hell, in the spring, sea gulls fly to the Great Salt Lake to scoop up the brine shrimp when they hatch.

One of the things that curses a restaurant the worst is lack of parking. When there’s parking for only 4 cars out front and it costs you $20 to park within walking distance, you’re not going to seat many customers.

One thing I remember from one of Bourdain’s books, which I didn’t see mentioned here, is how badly a restaurant can be hurt by unscrupulous suppliers. From what he wrote, apparently the owner has to personally check every shipment with scales and calipers or he’ll get robbed blind.

The only sensible answer to the question posed in this article’s headine is, “No sane person would give a damn.”

My proposal: a law that anyone whose incomes totals more than $1,000,000 a year is not entitled to any protection from any government-run police force or firefighting agency. They’ll have to spend a lot to protect themselves, thus forcing them to keep money in circulation where commoners can get at it.

Democracy in the US can be dismantled only if the American people let it be. We can still save the Constitution. STOP reelecting Mitch McConnell and his ilk. STOP swallowing what you know are lies and hypocrisy because you think you and your kind will get something out of it. STOP caring less about your country than…

Unfortunately, you’re absolutely right. The election system has always been more about the privileged elite trying to control the masses than with actually finding people worthy of office. The very existence of the Electoral College is proof of that. It gives those in power a final chance to negate the will of the…

It presents no barriers to you. Your post is hypocrisy. Your reasons for refusing to take part in helping decide who governs the country are, you have a personality defect which you refuse to deal with, and you’re lazy.

A caucus has one good point - it makes voter fraud much, much harder. When live people have to turn up to register their choice, you can’t have party hacks voting the graveyard. And it’s easy to see whether or not the people in the meeting are actually people who belong in that area or if they’re being trucked in to…

I don’t understand how the bleep these noise-hunting critters could have ever become a problem. They attack sounds, right?

You can make beer in a year, you can make whiskey in a decade, but it takes a lifetime to make decent wine. Any bunch of nomadic barbarians can make beer and ale while they ride through plundering, but to make wine you need long-term stable conditions. That’s why wine is the drink of civilization. Wine IS civilization.

Another reason those wines are high-end is because they’re limited production, because the varietals used to make them are very hard to grow. Those grapes are relatively delicate. They are low-lying plants and the grape clusters hang very close to the ground and often get down on the ground, which makes them very…

It’s hard to find but IMDB.com does have a little info about it. Apparently it was made for TV; I don’t know if it’s on CD.

STOP using this idiotic !@#%$! label “gig economy”. It’s a lie. Go back to calling it by the old name, calling it what it really is - greedy slime taking advantage of people who are desperately trying to find some way to scrape by.

“Mind-numbing tasks for pittance.”

“I’m having to spend hours of my time, like late at night, trying to figure out summer camp and get them signed up for sports and all that.”