We did reverse-seared steak, your poached lobster tail recipe (it was sublime), mashed baby Yukon golds, and creamed spinach. Steakhouse dinner at home for well under $100, and that counts a bottle each of white and red.

For readers' reference: freeze your butter and just chop it up right out of the freezer when…

Thanks for that culture tip!

I have a geography tip for you: America isn't in Europe!

If you sincerely want to make an impact in changing restaurant labor laws, step one is to not go to restaurants and line the owner's pockets. Paying for your meal - paying the owner - and stiffing the worker is not the financial incentive you think it is.

If you don't make enough money to tip, you should stick to…

Hey, Natty Bo is pretty decent as cheap-ass American adjunct lagers go.

I AM WATCHING THE SANDLOT!

Jia Tolentino's friend was once (allegedly) HELD UP AT GUNPOINT by Mike Jones.

Who?

"That's ridiculous. Everyone knows there's no such thing as a racial slur for Indians." —Dan Snyder

I don't want to live on this planet anymore I don't want that guy to live on this planet anymore.

He's just afraid that the truth will come out:

Most of this is good, old-fashioned awkwardness, but some of these guys belong on some kind of watch list.

It leads to the "totally valid" question . . .

I'm not making a stand. It's a constant reminder kind of thing.

Good to know you think these people were doing the right kind of rioting.

Why, it's almost as if things some people do when angry don't correlate to the general behavior or character of that or any population at large at all!

Also: setting fires, unlawfully discharging firearms, breaking into a stadium, and destruction of property are all explicitly mentioned in the article.

When is Bill O'Reilly going to speak out denouncing the lawlessness in the white community?

What would that prove? That women have bad impulses, too, so therefore men don't rape?

I am so glad D.C. was not selected.

Except that the best players from the baseball powerhouse countries (Japan, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela) all come to play for professional teams in North America. Sort of like how the best players on the teams of every country that legitimately contends for a medal in basketball at the Olympics are NBA…

But even celiac sufferers aren't allergic. Their small intestine cannot absorb a protein found in the gluten of certain grains.

Can somebody also do one for the horrible "your argument is invalid because you are emotional" trope?

Mansplaining is a real thing. It doesn't mean you don't get to have opinions; it means that when you condescendingly assume someone doesn't know or understand a subject because they are a woman, you are a dick.