To clarify, though, the decline in “reading and writing comprehension” has been in traditional forms of media. I am sure that, had the testing been available, we would have found that Latin comprehension declined as French became the European lingua franca (see what I did?) of the Mediterranean, and that French…

What we now call “literature” has always been denigrated by self-appointed cultural custodians, from Thucydides criticizing Herodotus for fictionalizing history, to 15th century Latin scholars deploring The Canterbury Tales as vulgarian, to anticommunists burning The Grapes of Wrath for seducing the youth to the…

I MUST HAVE THEM.

Cacahuetes japoneses. Mexican-Japanese peanuts in a soy/lime/MSG crispy wheat shell. I could eat Jimmy Carter bankrupt with those beauties.

Somewhere Joe Biden just flinched without knowing why.

Other people may have a different understanding of the distinction, but I think a con artist is a subtype of grifter. Anybody who can talk you out of your money through trickery is a grifter — it can include people from Bernie Madoff to panhandlers with a fake sob story. A con artist is someone who uses specific…

It’s delicious fried on white bread with yellow mustard. 

Oh no, does this dumb idiot think an honorary degree is the same thing as an actual Ph.D.? 

Ess-A-Bagel is running a buy some bagels/get some and some Hanukkah cookies free special right now! If you like the traditional spread with nova and pickled herring, Russ and Daughters is definitely my pick (although be prepared to pay for it). 

That’s disgusting.

I want it real bad. 

Thanks for going out of your way to say Makrut lime leaves, instead of...the other thing.

OH HELL YEAH

We keep trying and they keep calling us snowflakes!

With that jawline, they’d better check him for mumps, too.

The director failing to direct her is some deeply stunning objectification. In the objective of not fucking up her career, I won’t list them here, but if you wanted to figure out which Riverdale directors think Black women are things, you could find out via IMDB.

Why *hasn’t* MLB done a full bubble quarantine? Is it a union vs. management issue? 

For the life of me, I don’t understand why this many years into the game white people still feel the need to be racist on Facebook.

Towards the Bronx I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering A-Rod; to the last I boo at thee; from hell’s heart I drunkenly shit-talk thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at Yankee.

Can confirm we are the worst, but as a Scorpio: Would you like to hit it? Please? I’ll bring the weird stuff!

Was it Yanny/Laurel?