Menudo is always great when I’m feeling under the weather.  Haven’t done much pozole; I may have to try it.

A lot of liquor stores get gift sets in this time of year that include a bottle of whiskey and some whiskey-related paraphrenalia - a couple of glasses, a hip flask, something along those lines. They’re often cheaper than a whiskey bottle by itself. Get one with your dude’s favorite whiskey, and it’s a great gift.

Did you read the part where he said she had both mental and physical health problems? You are presuming at least as much as E. Vogel is, if not more, by simply assuming all her problems are due to being codependent.

So are you. You’re the one who’s saying, “She can’t hold a job only because she doesn’t need to. She’d quickly find and keep a job if she needed to - but he no doubt tells her it’s ok that she’s not working and that he’ll take care of her.” You have no earthly idea what her issues are or how severe they are, so the…

They weren’t just different. With the exception of Spider-Man, they were unlikable, twisted, grotesque fun house-mirror versions of themselves, produced by people who thought the best way to modernize comic book heroes was to take away everything people liked about them and make them mean and gritty.

My family used to use the Sunday comics to wrap presents.  You know, back when newspapers were a thing.

GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN.

I’d suggest you have your allergist write a paper about it, because you’d be the first.

I thought I had the M for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

They’re going full on Beastmaster 2 with this shit?

I don’t know where you live, but cherish the fact that you don’t have to worry about it like we do.

I usually just butter the outside, but put some spreadable cheese on the inside.  Even something as basic as Laughing Cow will do the job.

Stick a pair of clean kitchen scissors directly down in can, and snip, snip, snip until you have a can of chopped tomatoes.

One trick I’ve picked up from a couple of recipes is to save the water after you wring out the potatoes, and let it sit for a while until the starch separates out and sinks to the bottom. Then pour off as much of the water as you can without losing the starch, and mix that back into the shredded potatoes.

OK, so you’ve made it clear that you want to argue this despite not reading any of the stuff I posted to actually make my argument. Can you at least defend your own argument? Show me someone who has done it your way on a large scale and succeeded? If you’re arguing that California is a special case that’s not relevant…

You could always just read the articles, instead of assuming. Then you might see that a couple of them talk about farms who have done exactly what you said, paying upwards of $20 an hour for labor, and still couldn’t find American workers who would last longer than a day at the job.

You should really read the articles I linked.

It’s easy to say “check the place”, and far harder to actually check all the places.  You need workers to be able to come forward, or you are going to need a lot more enforcement agents (which means a lot more money).

The problem is, you can put all the fines you want on them, but until workers are willing to come forward and blow the whistle, the fines will rarely if ever be enforced. And nobody is going to come forward if they think doing so will result in them getting arrested, deported, and possibly interned for an indefinite…

I actually do agree with you to a point. The problem is that, when we do have those crackdowns and take those workers out of the fields, nobody is replacing them. As much as you may not want to hear the old saw, these truly are “jobs Americans don’t want to do”, and illegal immigration is filling that gap.