Because feet tend to swell in flight. For that very reason, though, my carry-on always, always, always has socks with soles, or disposable slippers, or similar.

And then it all went terribly, awfully, near-permanently (minor exception for Pulp Fiction) pear-shaped.

Have a star for the beautiful combination of Neko Case, Gerardo, and the Conchords.

Uh, no. The number of political appointees-as-ambassadors in the US typically ran at about one-third of the total ambassador pool (with all the “nice” embassies going to appointees). It went up pretty dramatically under President Obama (thanks, Obama!) - if memory serves, to over 50%. No idea what will happen under…

I doubt Maureen Dowd feels shame (0r, for that matter, empathy) ever. She is part of the reason I refuse to give money to the NY Times.

Aimee, you realise that what you are describing does not constitute a scam, right?

This is extremely Uncanny Valley.

Counterpoint: monkeys are cute, and, as a general rule, don’t have Fox-News / hatemongering-on-television kind of baggage, unlike, say, Megyn Kelly.

All true, and something I came to realise after the initial shock of my teacher’s reaction wore off, but it served as my first glimpse into how polarised American politics had become (or was, really, since I had nothing prior to compare it to at the time). Nothing much has surprised me since.

And apparently his (Price’s) fiancee has now dumped him.

Back when I was an impressionable 16-year-old, and asked my teacher whom she had voted for, she had reprimanded me for even daring to ask. I had recently arrived to the US as a refugee, and her reaction (in view of the Land of the Free / Home of the Brave advance PR) made no sense to me at the time.

Or the Sondra Locke / Clint Eastwood story...

Eh, everybody in NY knew about Trump, and the media made it known enough prior to the election - but the Trump voters did not want to know. You can lead a horse to water...

Why not? For one reason alone: I don’t have a STEM degree, which I’ve been mightily regretting for a while now. I’ve been looking for ways out since November 9.

Oh, I don’t even need to guess, I’ve witnessed this first-hand (both in int’l and US-only work environments). I just hope I get to see a beatdown delivered to a harasser one day, and justified by “culture,” because the inverse (i.e., harassment justified by “culture”) is so common.

I don’t suppose you can justify punching these individuals by saying, “ah, well, that’s just what we do in my culture in such circumstances”?

Fieri’s NY restaurant is well and truly terrible. But, you know, Bourdain was also deeply mediocre as a chef. They’re both better on tv than in the kitchen.

Bob is supposedly one of the reasons the HW story broke.

That’s why. Tom Hanks, wonderful as he is, isn’t known for indies, which is Miramax’s bailiwick.

Ask, and ye shall receive: