As the previous season of GBBO proved

That piece in Slate reached way too far to make its points. If you understand how they evaluate the show, there is no cumulative effect on judging. The goal any week (which I believe was actually articulated at some point in this season) is to not be the worst that week. Hermine was/is probably a better baker than…

My female friends hate it when they walk by a construction site and the workers there yell things like, “Hey, did you know that Adams passed the sedition Act of 1798 that prohibited the publication of false, scandalous, and malicious writing about the President and Congress, but deliberately omitted the Vice…

Yup! And the reasons that both of them gave me were just “I don’t feel like going anywhere”. Motherfucker you agreed to come here and were supposed to bring a side dish. Obviously you never made that side dish, so why wait till the last minute to tell me? 

My dad was on home hospice, and Thanksgiving Dinner was his final meal at the table. He was having trouble swallowing so we gave him a beer with liquid thickener and that was all he could handle. I don’t even remember eating but it must have happened. Then I sat with him in his sick room. The TV was on but it was on…

I’m so sorry. Yeah, my dad had a lot of sad-looking meals in the hospital before the end, especially since he needed everything either very soft or pureed. He passed away about a week before Thanksgiving (last year), which didn’t make for a great Thanksgiving, either. But at least a bunch of fun relatives showed up to…

I overcooked ours. I swear I calculated the cooking time correctly!

The year my father was dying. He was in the hospital over Thanksgiving. When they brought his dinner, there was a paper turkey placemat on the tray. For some reason that just broke my heart. Trying to make a “festive” Thanksgiving, which was his last, by putting it on a turkey placement. There was something just so…

So it was just us 3 this year and somehow we managed to screw up dinner so bad that we ate spaghetti & meatballs for instead. At least the tiny human was happy. Oddly we are normally very capable cooks but you know 2020

In my early 20s I tried to do my first adult Thanksgiving on my own with friends. Spent all day cooking the bird and like 6 sides and a pecan pie. This was around ‘98? so I used the Joy of Cooking for all of it. Then the 2 friends that I’d invited both bailed on me at the last minute (like an hour before they were…

My church in Germany did Easter by zoom. I’m part of an orthodox church and Easter is of course the most important holiday. It involves a week of twice a day readings, singing and praying and a night time reading of the Apocalypse. Seriously, it is all church every day and we found a way to do this.

This made me so mad. It was ruled in the guise of “freedom of religion.” I thought freedom of religion meant that you couldn’t be persecuted, jailed, or shot for practicing your religion, not that you had to gather in 100's in one room during a pandemic so you could infect 1000's of others. What about other people’s…

So, I think I just ate thanksgiving dinner by myself for the first time. I was supposed to go out to eat with my mom but her racist tendencies flared up when a black man answered the phone. When I foolishly tried to remind her that y’know, people are fucking people, she refuted the fact by going and saying she didn’t…

I legit don’t know whether this is a deeply pathetic story or not, but years ago , on the day we were supposed to be getting married before my ex broke it off, I did go by myself for dinner to the fancy restaurant where we were going to be having dinner with our immediate families (it wasn’t going to be a big…

It was my birthday recently, and I have a small tradition to eat some oysters for my birthday because I love them. My partner is a vegetarian, so usually we’ll go out someplace that feels like a treat, I’ll get a few for myself to start the meal......but that wasn’t going to happen this year. I was kind of bummed…

Pickle ball is played on what is close to a quarter court tennis court with a racquet that looks somewhere between a paddle and a badminton racquet. The ball is soft so doesn’t really bounce. Its actually a great game for players who would have difficulty running a full court - also it can be played inside in a gym.…

Ok here we go. I do not understand why your country is not enforcing mask usage or how many people can gather in one place or any of the other long list of things that are proven to stop the spread of COVID-19. I don’t understand why your health care workers don’t have access to the PPE they need, or why there aren’t…

Having worked in healthcare for almost 25 years, I watched the anti-vaccine movement grow from a far-fringe small group of nut jobs to an internet-enabled Wakefield-McCarthy international juggernaut of stupidity. Even after 1.4 MILLION DEATHS, even after all this suffering, I STILL have patients every day tell me that…

Hola kitty cats! I’m digging my new life in the mountains of Panama. My decision to retire was a good one for many reasons, just one of which is that a racist, conspiracy theory spreading mask-denier in my old office/cube farm might have infected everyone in the office with Covid; he came to work defiantly maskless…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I took some time off last week, which was sorely needed between new job being moved but still trying to get the house together. At least I finally got the mattress I original ordered, almost 4 weeks after ordering it and after over a week on the one they tried to sell me instead that…