I have a question that I hope doesn’t get me yelled at for being stupid, so here goes.

No. As the actual Clerk, she’s the only one with the legal authority to do the Clerk’s duties. The deputies who work for her are functionaries carrying out her duties in her name. So even if any of them disagree with her position, they don’t have any authority to act independently of her.

Just looked at her imdb. She was on several episodes of Private Practice in 2011-12. Glad she’s still working. Most of the time when the internet does a “you’ll never guess what happened to this 90s tv star,” my only thought is that it never would have occurred to me to wonder. But I don’t think I’ve seen AJ Langer…

BRB, going to edit every mention of “squad goals” to “coterie goals.”

There’s no evidence that the cloaked person in the photograph is who left a bag of raw meat at a playground. I read the original article in the local newspaper. Someone found a bag of raw meat. Two weeks later, someone else saw and photographed the cloaked person in a yard in the same neighborhood. Someone thought, I…

Agreed. My 4-year-old, nothing-special but a really nice picture tv was fried by a lightning-to-the-power-pole power surge last week, and replacing it is actually much more difficult than I anticipated, because I don’t want a smart tv. I trust roku to update and make improvements, while the tv manufacturers have no…

Other than Jennifer Weiner’s excellent series of tweets, I thought this was the best response:

Here in Chicago, there’s a great sandwich place called Goodwin’s, and their best sandwich is the Santa Rosa. So I don’t know if I love Santa Rosa, but I know I love the Santa Rosa!

My all-time favorite ever winter coat is Jessica Simpson brand. Cute, warm, and has held up beautifully through five Chicago winters now.

As an Illinois Wesleyan alumnus, I held my breath a little when clicking on that video, but I feel fine with it.

Being in a car that goes into water is my one obsessive fear. I go through periods where I lie in bed at night and think about it. I will try to channel this gentleman.

Ha, I heard the NPR movie reviewer talk about this movie this morning, and even he mentioned Mamie Gummer’s bad hair!

I love Postcards From the Edge SO MUCH. In large part because of Meryl’s singing. I watch that last scene multiple times every time I watch the movie. I kind of like the song she does in the party in the middle of the movie even better.

I’m on my way out the door to go to IKEA in a few minutes, and I can’t wait! Variera boxes and burken jars galore!

We live in a society that gives primacy to feelings. We accept that it’s the ultimate, inarguable thing when someone says, “this is how I feel. I have to be true to how I feel.” But in my view that’s such a bad standard to apply to decisions to stay in a marriage. Feelings aren’t permanent. To me, the whole point of a…

Hey Greg, Hey Ta-Nehisi —

I agree with everything you said, and I want to add one more thing. This is such a better reading of the two novels (or early and final draft) than the “of course Atticus turned into a racist later, it’s showing us how people get more racist when they get older, haha, it’s like my dad started going crazy when he…

This is an AMAZING observation. Good eye.

I already see some very bad advice popping up in comments here. For anyone who is reading this and thinks they might have a bedbug problem, go to bedbugger.com for sound advice. From my experience, this really is an instance where there is one best internet source for information, and bedbugger.com is it. Having…

I just watched that episode yesterday. It’s such a great line.