Is it really rude to be truthful?

I understand that Cheney is probably the biggest villain of the Bush years when all is said and done, but Bush was still the president. He was also a grown man capable of making decisions. He made several bad ones. For eight years straight. You don’t have to be some evil villain out of a comic book to have a lot of…

Oak-kay, we are all making an ash of ourselves, I be-leaf. As much as I root for a good stalk of puns, we need to branch out. It’s a thorny issue, knot easy to cut down to size. But we have no lacquer of wits, here, so we should soon see the finish...

The biggest problem is none of this matters. This will sound like hyperbole, but it’s not. This is a full shift into illiberal democracy, the kind of polity you see in Hungary, or Poland, or Israel. Where power is more important than norms, institutions are playthings for power politics, where the majority uses…

honestly, there’s nothing like fresh off the line. it’s magical.

Philly could do this easily.

Yes, absolutely, thank you for the correction.

So, basically the Takeout office is just filled with people coming up with the worst ideas possible and then taste testing them? Or are you really?

I feel like maybe you’re just saying that you guys taste-tested them as a kind of elaborate prank to see if anybody else will go home and actually make one.*

Video or it…

You could still not put pants on, but some of us like challenges.

“And, let’s be honest, they’re not using the money for toiletries that aren’t covered.”

Yeah, no. Just because a lobster absorbs THC through its gills doesn’t mean it gets high.

Lobsters are invertebrates, and the neurological systems of invertebrates have major differences from those in Phylum Chordata. A lot of insecticides work by affecting chemical receptors present in invertebrates that are not…

cocaine.  It was a cocaine joke. 

Yeah, I mean imagine if you’re so fucking fragile that someone at another table at a restaurant sending a text message bothers you. 

This is funny (and a point well made), but it’s only a prank by the loosest definition of the term. Yes, it was not a real McDonald’s ad, but the mere fact that it looked so much like one sort of renders the prank lame.

Until all restaurants ban cell phones at the table, it’s a non-issue. If some restaurants don’t want my money, I’m happy to take my business elsewhere.

Aren’t the day-drinkers just swilling vodka?

Yay, I found a sane person!

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with…

Alternative take: taking pictures of how much money you can afford to spend is ostentatious and an actual case of virtual signaling.