My Morse code isn’t what it used to be, but if you watch his eyes, it could be he’s saying something in Morse code, very slowly. Like, only a word or two.

... no I didn’t actually toss my garbage thusly, I try not to be a pig.  But I was tempted, because seriously, fuck those guys.

In the meantime, go get an Impossible Whopper. Vegetarian meat that actually simulates meat is the wave of the future, and the Impossible Whopper is damn close.

Fie on the three of them. Fie, I sez.  I could do without Biden’s gaffe-prone good-old-daysing, Bernie’s indifference to anything other than battling Wall Street, and Warren’s thirsty attacks on Obama throughout the years.  I’m on Team Harris, not unshakably so, but I could see her in the Oval Office and doing the…

Open a Sheetz-like establishment with a drive-thru. Out by the electric charging stations, put up a drive-in theater screen and play short pieces of entertainment (15-45 minutes).  That way people can charge their cars, get chicken, AND watch something fun.  Hell, I’d make a point of conceiving children at such an…

I get the feeling that you consider “irrational” to be a pejorative. It’s not, not really. More than anything, I see it as acknowledging the human condition: we are not Rational Wealth Maximizers in our interactions with one another, we do not behave like robots, we make decisions that probably would not make sense to…

Do you pick your friends out of some sort of algorithm designed to identify the correct number of friends with the most useful skill set? Or are your friendships based on emotional bonds? Emotional bonds are irrational, by their very nature. That doesn’t make them bad or wrong, but they can’t really claim to be…

It’s “Pope Yes”.  Their mascot is a happy little pontiff who enjoys eating chicken.

“I’m just saying that having friends is very basic, normal human behavior.”

I don’t disagree that families, friendships, etc. make for an efficient survival strategy. But how many people do you know who have kids, make friends, etc. because they’ve weighed the survival pros and cons, and decided that’s where the odds were best? Only sociopaths think that way; the rest of us do it because…

I can’t deny that blind faith is a bad thing; it’s the blindness that makes it bad. It is on the other hand possible to actually contend with one’s faith, to question it, to be challenged by it, to be made better for one’s belief. But like I say, that’s not how white evangelical Christianity evolved in America.

Like I say, i don’t think that religion necessarily makes people worse, but that’s the typical outcome in the United States. But that’s because white people are looking for justification rather than justice, and white American evangelical Christianity is built around justifying the worst that white people have to offer…

I even have a guess as to how they don’t try to kill themselves every single day out of horror at what they’ve made themselves into. A good society rewards constructive behaviors while pushing back against unwanted behaviors, via a combination of law and culture. A person could, in theory, grow up in such a society…

American Evangelical Christianity has learned to twist itself like a balloon animal to not actually challenge its adherents to become better people; instead it focuses on superficial matters (sexual purity, not using swear words) and requires only that people be “saved”. And the entire abortion crusade took off…

Life sort of imitates “Peep Show”:

Eke. Cwm. Orts. Adze.

If FriendShip Kitchens ever make it into Pittsburgh, they do pretty fine chicken too. Probably worth a visit.

Pope Yes is damn fine. We’ve seen a recent spate of Raising Cane’s chicken places in my area, so just in case they make it to Pittsburgh, let me save you some disappointment: the chicken is flavorless, the garlic toast is soggy, and the only good thing is the dipping sauce. In fact, it’s fair to say that the dipping…

Can I just say this? A lifetime of TV and movies have taught me that we white people are not nearly sensible enough to exit a house consumed by evil. The walls can be bleeding and the air vents can be croaking “GET OUT!” but white people are all, “I wonder how much air conditioning runs in the summer”.

No Doctor Octopus? For shame, Panama: