I understand that, but why eat a burger in the first place? There is so much other good food around. I say this as a carnivore, and an adventurous eater, and I’ve never understood the concept of “replica foods.”

I still don’t understand why something like the salty, fat-laden Impossible Burger exists. Why try to replicate something you’re trying to get away from?

No, but I went to a private university, not Ivy League but in the Top 30. And not USC, the epicenter of the “Varsity Blues” scandal. They can buy their own way in.

It’s a drop in the bucket. It costs about $70,000 a year at least to attend our school (including tuition, residential, books, cafeteria fees, all the other fees, etc.) It’s absolutely insane, but they’re good about doling out financial aid so only the wealthiest pay full freight.

I was waiting for this.

I think Splinter’s biggest problem and what led to the mass greying was that the writers/editors/mangaing editors/however they styled themselves were very thin-skinned as time wore on.

Did you know that the phrase “cutting the cord” also used to be a euphemism for “Kicking the kids out of the house because they’re old enough to have their own lives”? Like, “Throwing them out of the nest.” Now it is, of course, a euphemism for “getting rid of cable and using streaming services.”

Have you ever read The United States of Arugula? It’s a history of food culture in America, mostly about the postwar 20th-century experience, and there’s a good section about Alice Waters and her years starting out in Berkeley. It was not a smooth road, but she persevered.

Autocorrect is the bane of my existence. 

EDIT! Alice Walton. As in the photo at top. My system apparently is a foodie and auto-corrected to Alice Waters.

If you’re admitted to the bar in any state aren’t you allowed (maybe under limited conditions) to represent clients in DC? I have a feeling some of my friends have done this. One’s coming over tomorrow, I’ll ask him.

“Never board the somewhat empty subway car on an otherwise packed train.”

Alice Waters, noted patron of the arts and founder of Crystal Bridges down in Bentonville, has gone full Philip Johnson in that photo.

This article filled me with revulsion but it did prompt me to do some quick wiki research about the Marshall Islands. It’s fascinating:

One of the saddest sights in the world is near Columbus Circle in Manhattan on Friday nights. It is from there that people, including more than a few small children, board buses to take them to remote upstate prisons to visit inmates. They sleep on the bus and then visit on Saturday. I presume the small children are…

It’s very stange that he communicates with his own son via Twitter. I mean, I know, it’s so Half-Scoop can try and win favor with Two-Scoops, and Two-Scoops amplifies the sentiment for that small portion of his base who knows what Twitter is.

Jane Curtin famously did when she was in the premier season of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975. It was a particularly debauched environment, even by the standards of the era, but she did her thing and then went home to her husband. The men, on the other hand...

Kinja’d again but maybe this reply will go through. Sorry for the double post if the first one didn’t vanish into the kinjasphere.

Oh I will. I hold nothing back. But this was the pre-internet age so all the advice concerned face-to-face encounters, telephone conversations, or written correspondence. Whoever wrote this (and I think it was a pseudonym, lost in the fog of my memory) could have added another 200 pages about email, social media,…

I once owned a book that was several hundreds of pages long and described, in great detail, how to act, speak to, and write letters to almost anyone, including the Pope (and it gave his address in Vatican City.)