I don’t doubt that some percent of state representatives in these states are elected due to gerrymandering or voter suppression rather than the actual will of the people. But it seems somewhat disingenuous to act like these laws necessarily wouldn’t exist if voting were perfectly accessible in these states. The fact…

And if she doesn’t work, those lunches are grabbed in the car while running errands and driving the kids/grandkids around, because she forgot to eat again...

Even before Jingle All the Way too.

“Dearest Abigail, I hope this letter finds you well.

habanero isn’t a fruit?

The Cabbage Patch Kids brawls (1983) happened years before the Tickle Me Elmo (1996) ones. I had just turned 9 Christmas of 1983 and was squarely in the demographic for a Cabbage Patch Kid, but my mother gave me one the following Easter instead because they were just impossible to find during the holidays, unless you…

Watch “The Mitchells Versus The Machines” to get a little anti-Furby joy.

Well, technically, tomatoes are a fruit...

There are definitely accounts of various stores on the ‘black friday’ dating back to the 1940s/50s having fights and major sales in the 1930s causing scuffles and fights.  I can’t explicitly say they were over toys but humans will battle over any resource.  

Am I the only one who wants a Ken Burns style documentary on the history of the parental toy brawls?
Lots of black & white photos of people duking it out over Cabbage Patch kids and narrators reading interview accounts of target employees asking “WTF is that about?”

This isn’t about fighting for toys, but I had a friend (an adult) who collected Beanie Babies. And by collected I mean — a special bunch of display cases, and she never took the tags off, and she bought every variant.

I’d fight someone for a first edition Furby but only so I could destroy the soulless monster and prevent it’s conquest for world domination.

I want to say Cabbage Patch Kids is the first time I remembered something like this happening.

There was hysteria over Cabbage Patch Dolls, Beanie Babies, and my borderline-white trash niece-by-marriage was on the news melting down over a Furby, but I don’t recall any actual brawls over any of these goods.

Why do you think you haven’t seen Jaime Hyneman in a while?  Just pointing out the obvious...

No, you cannot stab someone with a blood icicle like Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat

It seems clear enough to me that the Cole character is the audience—he has to learn about the world and its implications for his family as the movie goes on.

same. i can do almost anything on the grill. but can’t do a decent burger. you’d think it would be 101 stuff. but no. either too dry, or undercooked. fail after fail.

This is encouraging. I’m actually doing some chicken thighs tonight!

“Oh yeah?! Well I’m something of an underworld boss myself!”