I mean... maybe if you’re only eating bagels for the cream cheese.

... Another reason to drink your coffee black.

I can never decide whether the cultural gulf between us and Japan is too wide, or they’re just less into kink-shaming than we are.

No, what I need is a decoy lap.

I’d say if something has been parodied by its own community (hello heavy metal, wrestling, Star WarsTrek, anything you can think of), then that community considers it a guilty pleasure.

A guilty pleasure is something you enjoy in spite of the fact that you know you should be superior to it. A guilty pleasure is something that plays your attention like a piano, even though you understand the formula completely.

I drink excellent coffee, thank you.

I mean, you’re not wrong but I bet people in the 1920s were annoyed with flappers who referred to their pomme frites as “French fries”. The nerve!

TBH, I have no idea if anybody still does this. It was an annoyance that I encountered several times when I was in college twenty years ago. I only recall it really being an issue once when I’d determined that I had *just* enough cash for a cup of coffee + tax, and they wanted an extra dime for milk and sugar.

Alternatively, delude yourself into liking black coffee until you believe it and can confidently assert superiority over those who require lightener and sweetener. Then take things further into a zen state where you would never stoop to adulterating your own brew, but you accept other people’s coffee preferences as…

Look, witch hunts—fake or otherwise—traditionally end with a test to determine whether the subject is actually a witch or not. I, for one, am looking forward to the day when we finally throw Donald Trump in the pond to see if he’s made of wood.

Depends, is your daughter growing up to be a misogynist?

I guess if I’d thought about it I’d have realized that the drive-thru is always listening, but it never crossed my mind until last summer when I was stuck a few cars behind a large order or two. The car ahead of me had finished ordering at least a minute previously and was still waiting when the speaker suddenly said,…

That entire second paragraph reads like “I know this looks like I’m not even trying but just hear me out.”

Glorious. Now if only it could help me on those Kitchn posts where I scroll up and down for several minutes only to find that the recipe is hosted on another blog and the link is hiding at the end of a paragraph.

Hey, lots of the government is open today.  Just none of the fun parts.

I’ll put it this way: I was going to describe him using a different word than"guy", but decided against it.

It really depends on where you live and how much snow you get; my neighborhood got about ten inches over the course of Tuesday. We also have a lot of foot traffic so unshoveled walks get leveled pretty quickly, but it’s a major problem for anyone with mobility issues (and it’s a “super annoyance” according to the guy…

Dude, if you can't tell the difference between a dark horse and a black sheep, then it's too dark and you need to turn the lights on.

Did he apologize? I haven’t been paying attention to Lian Neeson, other than reading about it when the first story broke. My point is, an apology by itself may not be sufficient, but it’s hard to take any of the damage control seriously unless it comes with an apology. For some reason the apology—which should be the…