Exactly. It’s like how when people say that grammar and language shouldn’t change, they mean that it should have stopped changing at the moment they learned it.

Ooh, lucky for you, there’s a Gawker alum here to handwave that all away:

I wonder if it has anything to do with the way the Bernie bros have been treating women online (particularly supporters of Warren). And Bernie himself not shooting his bros down.

Same goes for any new-world ingredient that's been deeply incorporated into another cuisine. Chile peppers are from the new-world and no one would consider spicy Indian dishes inauthentic. Or that kimchi isn't really Korean.

Spaghetti and meatballs was invented in the US by Italian immigrants.

General Tso doesn’t exist in China but its preparation is based on flavors and cooking techniques brought to the US by Chinese immigrants and served in restaurants run by Chinese immigrants. You can classify it as Chinese-American but that doesn’t make it fake or inauthentic.

About six years ago I took a cooking class in Italy. The instructor only taught dishes that were authentic to that particular region of Italy (Puglia). And he talked a little about how the cuisine evolved over time, but he also scorned anything that wasn’t authentic, which seemed contradictory to me. Tomatoes aren’t…

That’s just like saying that Italians who move to America are no longer real Italians.  No, they’re Italians who have picked up a lot of American traditions and integrated it into their own culture.

He’s talking about the fact that Italians don’t usually eat meatballs on their spaghetti.

He’s talking about the fact that Italians don’t usually eat meatballs on their spaghetti. Red sauced spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American contribution.

I mean, Chef Boyardee (aka Ettore Boiardi) was an actual Italian immigrant, you can shit on the canned food they make now but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a real history tied to real Italian traditions.

It's like people who call Chinese-American food not "real" or "inauthentic". It's the food of immigrants that came from countries with extremely diverse food traditions, distilled down into an overly broad label of "Chinese" or "Italian". Just because Olive Garden or Panda Express use certain recipes doesn't mean they…

I think it’s mainly her and her brother that write her lyrics.

I still think it’s a little uneven, but I loved this episode and I like where the show is going. There really should be an ongoing parade of Darwinian payback on board that ship.
The way I see it is a cavalcade of people who are utterly accustomed to their actions having either no consequences whatsoever, or have been…

As a big VEEP fan I was iffy on this show at first, and I think the first couple of “establishing characters” episodes had some very, very lame jokes, very mild and toothless style of humor. But a few episodes in, as characters really started to come into their personalities, and the plot continued to unravel the…

“They’re in a really scary reality, utterly dependent on a blundering corporation to take care of them . . .”

yeah the fact that they went there 3 times in a row is what makes it good dark comedy and really sets the tone of the whole show.

‘This show is more like a speculative documentary. It’s where Veep led us in 40yrs time. I buy every frame of it’

By the time a third set of people rushed in, I was legit expecting that by the end of the episode, the full 500 people they were talking about jettisoning a few weeks ago would have spaced themselves.

I know the shift in tone is all over the place, but it’s the tone they wanted. If it were an accident or the result of editorial incompetence, I’d be more unforgiving. And I think I’m really starting to understand this show. Maybe. But poor leadership and poor decision-making born of magical thinking are how we here…