Sure, some of these people are “rich”, others make a good living, and still others are there because they just had one great job, but are not rich by any stretch. Actors can make good money, but it’s spotty and inconsistent and the business is fickle.

My (very limited) understanding of those Southern “honorary” ranks, like Colonel, is due to their involvement in posses that engaged in lynchings. I wonder (just asking questions!) if the ranks had to do with their ad-hoc militias posing as “well-regulated” so they could justify their running around shooting people…

Copy that. WC is possibly interesting in how repulsive it is. In-n-Out is much better and has those creepy/charming bible verse references on the wrapping.

Good suggestions. I’ve been wrestling with the Settings app, which I can’t even describe how awful it is. Not that it was great before! I think there must be a battle of executives at MS, because Settings/Control Panel just reeks of hostile compromise, designed to make the most people the most unhappy. 

That’s not how I read that sentence at all. (Caveat -- I support Warren) I see it as, The system is difficult and inequitable, and Elizabeth Warren tried to remedy some of that.

I agree with you. Sure, they could do... something. But what would be effective? And what wouldn’t cause backwash that’s worse?

Thanks, I needed a laugh.

Given the sultry lighting and the color scheme of the set, the green cap would just have looked wrong. The lighting person and the set dresser changed it.

I think that’s right, and not just Christian. But yes, we’re in a Christian majority country/ies (USA/Europe) and it manifests that way. But no, atheists are not hostile to religion, that implies a certain animus. I think, though, that atheists do not make excuses for wickedness done under religions’ aegis, so they…

I’m laughing at that then stealing it. Very funny.

Okay, reading the other comments I feel bad now, because it’s certainly not compostable, but I use a Brother labelmaker, the kind that plugs into a USB port on my PC and is essentially a printer. So I can put little wee graphics on the label (cute!). My wife does a lot of storing leftovers and freezing things, and…

I tried to influence my parents to de-clutter, to no avail. They went from having a wonderful danish-modern apartment on the Upper West Side of NY to living in a dangerous, rickety pile of books, magazines, and tchotchkes. While my mother complained about it bitterly and constantly, and it was actually dangerous for…

I recommend the podcast, You Are Not So Smart, by David McRaney. All about this.

There was an interesting article by Cory Doctorow about this. Can’t find the link... But the idea was that if you had described the machinations behind the opioid epidemic, it would sound like a big conspiracy. Admittedly, not with a “shadow government” or (shudder) nanobots. Wish I could find that link...

At home, I do pour-over and at work, Nespresso. It’s good! I was a restaurant in Lyon (the “Culinary Capital of France”) and I went to one of their typical Lyonnais restaurants. It was great. I ordered coffee with my dessert, and the little espresso cup was marked “Nespresso”! I (skeptically) asked the waiter if that…

“The push to recall Newsom came after GOP supporters became upset with the governor’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic...”

Sort of looking forward to Foundation... Loved it when I was a 12 year old in 1966, but it doesn’t bear rereading. Asimov was a wonderful person, a great thinker, and a terrific non-fiction writer. The characters make cardboard look vibrant and alive. Maybe TV writers and actors can imbue them with some more agency.

I have a practically vintage (25 years old, maybe?) Nissan Thermos thermal carafe, with a drip cone. I wash it daily with just soap. Every month or so I use powder DipIt, which is amazingly effective. You pour boiling water and 1 tbsp DipIt into the carafe, let sit for 40 minutes, then scrub with soap and water.…

This is great, and I wish it well. Note that in the quest to make Hollywood products more representative over the past 40 years, confirmation bias and motivated reasoning took their toll. Whenever a Black or Woman-led project succeeded, it was celebrated, but considered some kind of exception. When they failed, it…

Interesting conversation, but I agree with those who feel she should not even have been asked the question. It’s not up to her, it’s purely LMM, Chu, and the casting team, namely Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernie Telsey (I suspect Telsey did extras, if I remember from my acting days, but I could be wrong). Yes,…