Vicarious Visions is specifically in Albany. It feels weird to just call it upstate New York considering how far it is from Buffalo.

Man, they burn a lot more than this building tanks that will never be used. The people who are responsible for that won’t face any punishment at all.

So Bittenbinder is the German version of Cooper, then?

A win for Harden is a loss for the game of basketball.

And the Celtics still have two extra lottery picks.

Clearly our children must be protected from Grammy-winning music about pedophiles.

Aren’t those songs about hedonism and prostitution? And I bet this guy likes Steely Dan, which is named after a robot dildo. Do you think he would have gotten employees fired for playing “Semi-Charmed Life”? It’s about crystal meth addiction.

We had to play whatever mix they got licensed, which got old fast.

Eagles sang about promiscuity, drug use, and conspicuous consumption, too. Cleaner language just gets it on the radio but it doesn’t improve the message.

I can see that too, but he has to be aware of the context. Nothing wrong with pointing out that the song isn’t appropriate for work but it’s on the manager for allowing music to be played over the loudspeaker without an ASCAP license, which is usually how businesses end up deciding what ends up being used as…

It feels like he was angry about having his little white bubble pierced by the culture of the black people whose city surrounds Duke. Never mind that Duke would not exist at all without the labor of African Americans.

I have a feeling you wouldn’t like me as a lady.

Sort of. It depends on how footloose the workers are. American workers going overseas for better paying jobs would be a neat flip to the script.

It’s a bit of both. Developing the skills necessary to fill those jobs takes more personal investment than the salary of those jobs would return, so people don’t bother learning those skills.

It’s a shame that this crappy season is your introduction to this show. You don’t get to see the weird Hough siblings being strange but also brilliant (Julianne is such a good dancer that having her compete was basically unfair), none of the Chmerkovskys battling the judges (and their partners), none of Mark Ballas…

If I had heavily invested in Virtual Console games I would be frustrated at purchasing them for a new console. Maybe Microsoft got us used to eternal support.

It’s not exactly a surprise that your house is in danger of a lava flow if it’s in Lava Flow Risk Zone 1 or 2. By now they’ve all evacuated but I hope most of them had a plan and were able to get everything they needed.

About the only additional random risk where I live that would give less warning than a volcano would be a tornado, which is so exceedingly rare that stingy insurance companies are happy to cover it. When you live in a rift zone on an active volcano, you know that the likelihood of your home being at risk of a lava…

Living in a rift zone for an active volcano, or in a flood plain, or on the beach: you have to know going in that it’s essentially a rental. To some extent that’s true of every house but the expiration date is more finite for some risks than others. I still hope everybody got what they needed before they got to…