I can see why people are upset. A teenager conveyed a racial slur to almost a dozen people, through an unwitting intermediary. That teenager deserves a stern talking-to, so that he understands how seriously people take this kind of offensive behavior.

Also Mississippi: Eudora Welty, Richard Wright...  Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King...  I think some southern states hit way above their weight when it comes to the arts.

I’ve appreciated adjustable seats with memory whenever I’ve picked up my car from the shop. One button press (though I have to look for the button) and it’s in the right position again.

I wonder if the rules forbid mechanical aids in folding? Because if you could compress a sheet of paper into a dense enough ball, it would be like throwing a baseball. Totally uninformative and useless as a paper airplane, though.

straight cis men (arguably the most unimpressive of our species)

We don’t need two anthems. It’s a damn football game. We don’t need any anthems.

I think this is on target. A while ago, on some other social media site, I was arguing with a racist who claimed that something like two-thirds of shootings in New York City had a Black shooter, with White shooters accounting for just 2% of shootings. Checking a NYPD report, I was shocked to find out this is roughly…

Same here. I need to wait at least a couple of hours after eating before I run, which means when I used to run in the mornings, it was always before breakfast.

Wow!

My wife and I used to drive from Raleigh to Baltimore for family get-togethers on the holidays. The most memorable drives over that stretch were on Christmas Day, hitting that stretch early-to-late morning. Sad, right?

I don’t know how it is in Connecticut, but my least favorite stretch of I-95 is between DC and Fredericksburg. It’s brutal.

Cool, that’s new to me.

And more importantly, if you are so lucky to have a painting—not a photo, A PAINTING—of yourself in repose sans garb, definitely hang it above the dining room table.

Douche here. I lived in France 5 years as a kid & then studied in Paris in college, so I’m that insufferable person who says “ahn-deev” and pronounces croissant correctly.

Huh. Maybe it’s more regional than I’d thought? My wife grew up near Burlington, and it was a term she used.

Googling turns up the information that the take-home pay for the median American earner is about $40,000. This works out (obviously) to a recommended $30,000 cash reserve. The median emergency fund maintained by the average American is just $2,000.

It was to die for.

How can you write an article about sandwiches in Vermont without telling everyone that what passes elsewhere for a sub or hoagie or hero sandwich is called a grinder?

Nice selection!

Indeed, inadvertent errors should result in life-changing consequences. /s