You con’t see the same reporting on hatred against Jews. We’ve had three incidents of people trying to stab Jews at kosher markets while yelling about wanting to kill Jews in as many days last I heard, desecration of Jewish cemeteries is a thing we’ve had to get used to, and Israel gets the same sort of use on the…

The three biggest parts of whether your job keeps you sane or drives you nuts are whether you feel like there’s some sort of product from your effort (you don’t feel like you’re writing long documents that are printed directly into a shredder), whether your hours are marginally humane, and whether your coworkers are a…

That guy with the laser cane from that spy show.

I think it’s because it’s a bit easier to code lesbians, so they were gradually worked into media. This is especially evident in geek media, in which the gay and Jewish representation is almost completely made up of lesbians (even Kitty Pryde was originally meant to end up with Rachel Summers).

At the same time, Jews have roughly the same proportion of the population and level of representation (first television wedding wedding of two Jews came after the first television wedding of two gays, if memory serves) and you don’t see anywhere near the same level of agitation for them.

It’s interesting to track how teenaged/adolescent the turtles are drawn in any given interpretation. The versions that inspired those costumes are clearly supposed to be 14, the same age as every protagonist, while the ‘90's 1-2-3-4 series had them as 90210 teens (aka 30-year-olds).

That goes back to the days of radio. The Goldbergs was the show to teach America that Jews are normal, horn-free people. Molly Goldberg then went on to become America’s mom.

It’s interesting comparing that to kosher certification, in which the inspection companies market themselves on their stringency because the vendors are well aware that consumers follow certification reputations obsessively. The weirdest no-loyalty story in recent news was when an independent mashgiach tried to spread…

Misbehaving children.

That’ll take a while, as I read this around 2012. I think it may have been The New Yorker or Atlantic.

and making pink, sometimes offensively gendered sets “for girls”.

“I like that Duplo is also more gender-neutral and less brand-heavy than Lego proper,” Lange says.

I think they also assumed that the only process that would be targeted at the president would be impeachment, which would nullify the president’s ability to pardon anyone.

Those are mittens. It’s cold there.

None of those examples at the end fit the given definition, though, leading us to the practical definition: anything you want to imply is illegal/unconstitutional but can’t actually identify any way it is so.

Not a one of them populated in any significant sense.

If I have to fix something I’m paying for myself, it’s terrible. Just look at European cars.

I never got the logic that you should cut slack for tardiness if the server’s busy. If the server’s working that many tables, he’s getting tips from that many tables and thus making up size with volume.

What are the essential board games? I can think of chess, checkers, go, mancala, and backgammon. What do you consider the best version of each (with chess I think being the only one with a definitive version)? Likewise, definitive card games.

Sometimes the convenience and gas savings are worth it. I get most of my calories from X-shares at this point. And yoghourt and canned fish.