I still give zero shits about Piper or Caputo. 

What I take from GOOP’s popularity is a distressing number of people believe in magic.

You’re right, I was being glib. 

I’m so glad anything with “disrupt” in the description has become a clue that this will not be my thing. It saves me so much time.

What an interesting article, I didn’t know about his experience with the Cultural Revolution. When I was in high school, my mother was an event coordinator for the now defunct Kitchen and Co. This was before the Food Network really took off, so she had some really outstanding culinary people come to promote their…

I think he’s vastly overestimating people’s interest in “facts” and “eye-witness reporting” and “basic humanity.” This will be on the center Left’s tombstone: If Only We’d Explained It Better . . .

This all-powerful Lolita shit is really starting to piss me off. 

That’s the idiot who was too overtly racist FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. He lost to some twenty-something who’d never held office before.

However, at least the Germans looked pretty brave. Personally, once a lady hurls a truck at me, I’m outta there, but the Germans kept coming at her.

I winced when I heard strudel was the challenge. That’s less a pastry and more an act of masochism.

. . . or with those commas, a mid-life crises lady gets her groove back by whispering cannibalistic encouragements to her younger lover as they go on a trans-global murder spree. 

. . . and now I’m enjoying an alternative universe where Eat Prey, Love was about a frustrated lady in mid-life crisis who eats her lovers after draining them of their sexual usefulness. Thanks! (I mean that, it’s been a long week.)

Didn’t Earl have to this for Paper Boi?

The instances of taking advantage of naive/inexperienced people’s dreams is so pervasive, even if not as blatant as the opening story. I see students all the time who are looking for a hot internship to get their careers launched in any field and are desperate enough to take a a gamble on 7-8k+ “internships” with “top…

Must have managed to block those out. 

 . . . or a phallus, which I imagine was what they were going for.

I just posted about that scene. I read that when I was eight and I was and still am horrified.

Oh, man, The Godfather book messed up my childhood. I transferred schools in 3rd grade and my reading levels had tested out of the class lessons, so they just sent me to the library for an hour. You’d be amazed what people donate to an elementary school. The Godfather book has a really unnecessary, long description of…

This was something that annoyed me, to be honest. It’s a good joke, but in practice, I’ve found it to be more nuanced. Sometimes, a well-meant, Southern “bless your heart” means “I’m so sorry for that thing happening to you, I empathize.” Language is layered, yo.

. . . Or Jackson separating Native Americans from their children in the ramp up to the Trail of Tears. This has always been part of the country’s DNA.