Oven bacon is bland, boring bacon, IMO.

I thought everyone microwaved them these days.

The public school system I attended required all students, regardless of sex, to take both shop and home economics in middle school. And that was 30 years ago.

Let’s also have The Hunchback of Notre Dame end with France passing the ADA while we’re at it.

Maggie finds this scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen particularly inspirational (unfortunately I can’t find a better clip of it on YouTube):

You can get need-based deferments on making payments (e.g., you’re enrolled in a graduate program; you’re unemployed; etc.), but I’m not sure that defers your interest anymore.

A fully-loaded iPod Nano with noise-cancelling headphones plus a few hundred pages of reading work fine for me.

This post is kind of weird because I thought ESPN not televising the anthem was a brilliant “pox on both your houses” strategy rather than “rolling over” for the NFL.

If you don’t like to have any flavor in your food, sure.

Dr., I just wanted to warn you that some troll upthread has stolen your handle (but failed to steal your avatar) and is saying some rather inflammatory things.

a North Carolina jury found him guilty of invasion of privacy on Monday. . . . Monday night that the jury awarded her $1 after finding Greg Biffle guilty

The article is poorly written.  Based on the previous Jalopnik posts on the subject, this was a civil case, not a criminal case.  The defendant wasn’t found “guilty” of anything; he was found liable.

Yes, and in the realm of DC Comics, Ragman and Captain Marvel Jr./CM3 are who come to my mind first.

Nor is he German!

Since when is Batwoman “one of the most well-known Jewish characters in comic book superherodom”?  I’m a DC fanboy and this is literally the first time I’ve heard that the character is supposed to be Jewish.

Points off for failing to switch to double quotation marks around “alive,” unless you’re British, in which case you get full points.

+1 Lowry’s cover is much superior — it respects the original while being innovative at the same time.

I didn’t realize the SPCA could execute search warrants!

and all of a sudden the medallions are next to worthless and the drivers are still on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I have a similar problem — when I read the rules for F1 racing, my interpretation keeps veering back and forth.