Other places in the world seem to have restaurants. Also Danny Meyer in NYC has no-tipping restaurants where he pays people real wages. It can be done.

Tip, tip generously, and try to change the system that allows servers to be paid below minimum wage.

Would have edited if I could have... I get that he’s still in office until the election, but he’s a lame duck.

I don’t live in NYC any more, but you say there’s media noise re Crowley? Can you tell me where? I’m not seeing any, but (again) I’m not in NYC any more. AFAIK, he’s now a private citizen, having lost the primary. Is he still in the race somehow? 3rd party or something?

Hm. Campari rocks sounds good... splash of soda...

It’s just possible that we’ll stop wanting a pill for everything, or feel that we must never feel pain. I don’t know. But maybe!

It’s just possible that they can’t, because the US gov’t is beholden to a small class of rich people. I don’t think that is as true in Europe.

Thanks for that. Only in the current Internet climate can having a tepid non-reaction be seen as a clear win.

Stockard Channing in “The Girl Most Likely to...” in 1976. Capsule from IMDB: “An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.”

“They” didn’t take land from people who were there before them. Jews were there longer than anyone.

Yes. You missed the part that there was never any independent Palestinian state that anyone invaded. That part of the world was part of one empire or another for 1000 years. Finally, after WWI, there were efforts (because of Zionists efforts and British desire to shed a troublesome colony) to create a Jewish state and…

Political note: recklessly tossing around semi-informed statements about Israel and “Palestine” is not a great idea in NYC, even if it’s a navy-blue district. I would hate to see this terrific upset victory upset again.

Every racial superiority claim is a laying the groundwork for a property claim. That is why brown-shirts coming into a bar, even if all they want to do is drink and be loud-mouths, is a violent act and should be treated as such. Even if their shirts aren’t brown, but striped polos.

The latest 538 podcast has a take on this. Not very emotional, which is their brand (and why I listen... I get outrage sickness after a while), so it may not satisfy everyone.

By “editors” I don’t think they mean “copy editors.” I have often volunteered, but they’ve never taken me up on it.

“Globalist” I get as a very lightly-coded anti-semitic slur. But Deep State... I took it to be an ass-covering gambit whenever anything doesn’t work out perfectly, to indicate secret enemies undermining the righteous Trumpisti. But I guess those are not mutually exclusive slurs...

Well, since (in the video) they used a hammer to drive screws into the crate, James Woods will be able to push it open.

Wait... nailing himself to a cross? How do you do the hand holding the hammer?

Thanks for the laugh.

Fun article. Of course, I will never have to buy packaged hot dogs, because I’m lucky enough to live in Los Angeles. We have had, since the 19th century, a large German community, among them several gold-medal winning sausage makers. That’s gold medals awarded in Germany, in competition with German-resident sausage…