The old way of making bagels was truly horrible on the workers.  Super hot, humid steamy kitchen.  Windows all fogged up.  As a customer I know this is the place to get the best bagels, but wouldn’t want to work in there.

Your server wasn’t eavesdropping, you have a loud piercing voice. Based on this letter, the last thing you need is more salt.

I imagine that there aren’t many non-stupid letters to this column. Restaurants are not that hard to understand.

“Alum” is a casual, informal term. Language happens.

Went back to visit Trondheim last summer, this is the third largest city in Norway. Used to live there many years ago, it used to be a vibrant city.  Commercial center for a 500,000 people county.  Now it’s emptying out, there’s a toll ring around the city and parking is expensive. Pedestrian areas are still there,…

You’re comparing apples and oranges though. What is the physical size of Oslo? What is the physical size of Sonoma County? It’s SUPER easy to reduce traffic deaths by getting rid of cars when you don’t actually NEED cars because you can walk everywhere in a tiny city.

Reducing usage of cars, lowering speed limits, promoting cycling and walking are great in a dense, physically tiny city like Oslo. Look at its size on Google Maps - it’s like 2.5 miles across. This approach would be a disaster in any US city, where walking or bicycling simply aren’t a reasonable alternative for…

Grown by Mexican drug cartels yay!

Or the military.  Rape certainly happened there before women were allowed in the ranks.

One word: prison.

Yes.  We definitely need to hasten the melting of the ice caps. They have been in the way far too long.

ahh, yes because it’s just the cars in the US that are causing that.

car = I can get in and go wherever I want, whenever I want. I’m in control. I can talk to myself in peace, practicing arguments that I may have one day, or replaying things that I should have said. I can listen to whatever music I want to, or talk on my (hands free) phone without worry.

The name “Sackler” writ large on the MET, Louvre, Guggenheim, etc. etc. says a lot about what is wrong with museums. I know that many of these museums have or will be taking down the names of such donors , but only as a result of very recent public pressure.

“Most of the US budget is spent on social services.”

Note that for a developed nation, the US does not spend a lot as a percentage of GDP:

If employees can choose when and where to work they are contractors.

A pregnant waitress already got more than the tip.

We do if we want to eat them...otherwise they wiggle too much.

I was gonna say the same thing. Apparently the Univision overlords decided to drop fact checkers or proof readers or something.