Wes,

Thanks for the coverage and story telling in a Ranger-like fashion. I'm sure a few of your followers will have questions about IS, but we'll just say it's one step at a time. We started in Afghanistan in 2012, now we're in five countries. Give it time. When an opportunity to make cool products in dangerous…

Great post. Nice hear about some ideas that could lead to real and lasting peace, that don't depend on a never ending show of force. Even better that it comes from guys that have had boots on the ground.

My girlfriend would like me to point out that if she were going to go into battle, or fight someone, or do pretty much anything physical, she'd be wearing a good bra that doesn't allow for much movement despite her larger cup size, and doesn't understand video game costumes at all, nor why developers feel the need to…

I kind of get the ham thing. Some people are really sensitive to smoked flavors (or like me, love them! Give me all your gouda and smoked meats!), and like yeah, ham and pork chop at least come from the same animal...but in general smoked salmon still tastes like salmon, and smoked sausages still taste like sausages,…

Yeah, you're totally right about that. Anyone who isn't frothing at the mouth with bitter vitriol directed at restaurant patrons, and has the brazen audacity to suggest that a server may have made a mistake, is instantly a shunned pariah... Ugh...

Thanks thought police commie.

I've enjoyed BCO, but lately it's seemed like you have a lot of contempt for your readers/commenters. Maybe it's not intentional, but it certainly comes across that way. Just because Kathryn doesn't agree with your opinion doesn't mean you need to be rude or that her comment is boring.

You really don't like people disagreeing with you, do you? Maybe you should quit reading comments, it really seems to stress you out. Friendly advice from the healthy heart brigade.

TBH I've never tweeted someone I don't know but I don't get the last point at all. Someone creates a Twitter account with the sole purpose of putting their thoughts out into the world, to everyone and to anyone on Twitter - and then gets outraged if someone responds to that?

Could you possibly have made a more unnecessarily snarky response to a well-intentioned comment? I'm going to go with "no."

Woah. Usually authors aren't such dicks like this for no reason. I get that it kind of rambled on, but she was basically saying "Why didn't they just say 'this is whole wheat toast' " Which doesn't seem like it would warrant an asshole response.

With the toast situation, the very first time the customer complained, the server should have responded with a polite, "But this is whole wheat toast, ma'am. Would you like something else?" The entire drama would've been diffused right then. As a veteran server of over twelve years, I believe effective 2-way…

But it was the server's fault in the toast story. Please explain how you think the problem was ever going to be resolved by repeatedly serving the woman the same thing and not asking what the problem with it was.

Nope, didn't miss the part where she described the Scallop Mini Burgers as seared scallops on brioche. If diners are returning this dish on the regular, and notice she said "not even close to the only time this has happened", it doesn't take a great leap to figure out some people don't know what scallops are.

There are no winners in the toast story. Not the batshit crazy customer that doesn't know how words work (and who gets that irate at any toast-related issue?). But the server doesn't win either, I mean he/she could see that the toast was, in fact, wheat toast. Every time a new plate came out, it was wheat, right? How…

RIP, pro career of Marcus Mariota.

Looks like a motherboard!

Is that a No More Wife Beater?

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, sh... hey, where'd you go!?!