That’s fucking perfect. I love it. I’ve spent my whole life hearing about the Boomers, and just as that’s declined (unless we’re talking about their impact on Social Security), we’re now hearing about Millennials as a group on a daily basis. “Boomies” sums it up.

Wealth and taste aren’t often found in the same package, when you come right down to it.

Superior alternative to English muffins (crumpets): Portuguese (Azorian) bolos levedos - sweet muffins. Similar shape, they’re denser. You can find them at grocery stores all over New England (also, Ocean State Job Lot locations even in NY and NJ). And, not hard to make on your own. Can also be ordered online from…

It would be great if people saw what was done to Flint as the class warfare that it actually is, rather than what we usually hear - that advocating for a more progressive tax system, or taxing investments at the same rate as income - is “class warfare”.

I have little doubt that the Governor and his lieutenants will…

Our three boys either have had or will get the vaccine. It just made sense.

Yup, and if it’s close enough that they matter, I think the threat of Bloomberg keeps them in line. If Sanders starts to walk away with it, he gets in anyway and likely hands the election to the Republicans, as long as they don’t nominate Cruz.

I know she does - but there’s been a small amount of (premature) talk in recent weeks about the superdelegates (especially the current office holders) starting to move to undecided or switching if Sanders does well enough. It’s unlikely to happen.

This is a warning to the Democratic superdelegates not to back Sanders.

I was staying in Manchester NH over Christmas, and drove up to Sugar Hill and Littleton NH, and there wasn’t a damn bit of snow on the ground. And it was well above freezing. Seemed completely wrong.

Glad to see winter showed up.

That could lead to them getting uncomfortably flirty with each other over you if one of them decides that the “pretend we’re strangers” thing works for them. That could be worse.

I’m increasingly thinking that sort of training may be necessary.

Yup. When I’m feeling nice, I remind myself that without them, it’s impossible for people to have faith that the outcome isn’t pre-ordained. When I’m seeing it in action, I’m sometimes reminded of an old quote that Larry Ellison made about the software company CA - “Every ecosystem needs a bottom feeder”.

Honestly, I’m surprised there hasn’t been more unrest. The rich, and their lickspittle media pundits, like to act like to act all outraged at the notion of the rich being taxed more and the lower classes being slightly resentful. Feelings are “class warfare”.

No, what happend to Flint is class warfare. And, as usual,…

It depends on where you are. As a kid in the 70s and 80s in Rhode Island, every school in my town had an RN. If they were absent, there wasn’t a substitute.

Where I now live in NJ, every school building has an RN. In addition to sick kids, the nurse handles health-related paperwork (documenting food allergiest, etc)…

Which was worse, Star Trek V or Nemesis? Discuss.

I want it. But I’d have to impose a period dress code on guests, and no music or TV made later than 1979. If you’re going to live it, live it.

That’s a really good idea - although small businesses will scream. Remember, FMLA is unpaid, but businesses with fewer than 50 employees don’t have to provide it to their employees. The ADA doesn’t apply to businesses with fewer than 15 employees. I would expect a system like this to have a similar carveout, meaning…

Rubio also lacks the magic Cruz touch, where most normal humans find him more and more creepy the longer they’re exposed to him. The man is the human embodiment of the “Uncanny Valley”.

Yup - it’s amazing how good this show is, and how bad the X-Files was in comparison. Stilted, boring, totally lacking in any chemistry between the characters. It’s like watching a table reading.

With their apparent family dynamic, he was probably sweating whether or not she’d actually do this.

This is still less creepy than Cruz’ mother in his video, who said she prayed for him several times a day (which you’d only do if he was in great physical danger -not - or you believed his soul was in peril), and was so…