Key Lime La Croix is spectacular.

That’s just one accepted definition among a list that includes “unusual” and “peculiar”.

I tried that once, but I just couldn’t hold my shit together when I saw the bonds and breakages of inter-generational relations literally realized by tubes of light around the family dinner table.

This is what I feel Bernie (flaws aside for a moment) was trying to do: lay out a best-case policy scenario and admit that, yes, we need to pay for it with taxes. But strategy comes in persuading people that it’s worth it, not that we can magically have our cake and eat it too.

The problem with this line of thinking on climate change is that we have backed ourselves into a corner, so anything less that “perfection” at this point is absolute suicide. We are 20 years past the point of playing nice and compromising on policy on this point.

I like this. A lot of possibilities like making it a bandana/t-shirt/totebag that’s also part of the gift. Potentially expensive, but cool if you can swing it.

Audio books for Grandpa? Audible subscription? Podcast playlist preloaded on a used ipod?

Your lede 100% described my wife’s grandparents who, upon exiting the corporeal plane a couple of years ago, left behind an immaculately maintained, garaged, Northern California, low-mileage ‘02 Avalon.

In addition to the benefits you note, skin-to-skin contact with a newborn is also really really good for general bonding and, you know, love. It’s extra vital in the case of surrogacy or adoption of a newborn.

No, this is a recently renovated house in an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood. I’m officially blaming the hippie soap.

I never understand why Hudsucker Proxy is consistently ranked toward the bottom of the Cohen Brothers’ body of work. Easily one of my favorites.

Not cheap, but hippie.

This is the only contrary opinion on this subject that might possibly sway me.

Ok, good to know.

“Young Woman with New Job Buys Appropriate Work Attire” probably on a credit card she knows she can pay off when her new salary kicks in. Who the hell hasn’t done this?

I read once that Carbonara is actually a pretty modern dish dating from post-WWII Italy when locals were dependent on US relief supplies. The actual “traditional” meat ingredient is Spam, we’ve just fancied it up in the intervening years.

So is my dishwasher just really crappy then? I feel I have to give everything a scrub before it goes into the machine or the dishes don’t actually get clean.

If you’re ever passing through Salt Lake City, go to the Red Iguana for molé. It’s even right by a train stop between the airport and downtown. It is worth the any-time-of-day wait.

Was this just basically an Audi-badged-and-styled New Beetle?

Water Wow works really well for us with small kids. It’s self-contained and somehow more engaging that crayons.