I’ve eaten brains once. I was in China for a business trip, I usually tell the host just to order what they like for me and I’ll be adventurous from there. My host was up front about the brains, and I noped it for the main course, but I said I’d give some a try if someone else ordered it.

Our thoughts and prayers need to go to the victims here. We shouldn’t rush to make laws at this time. We can’t use this crisis to write legislation to single out law-abiding citizens. The guy was just a normal neighbor, no one would have thought he could have done it. It’s just an isolated incident, we can’t use it to…

MacCallum: So if shot at, they would shoot back?

So much this. Once our kids were good to hook on solid food, we started them on the same things we were eating. When their friends come over, it’s always an adventure getting newbies to try tagine, jerk chicken, or fish tacos.  I travel internationally for business, so I bring back pictures of very exotic dishes that…

I’m kind of rooting for a “Wrath of Khan” fakeout death. We have a funeral episode, the audience relaxes, then WHAM - Phil drops dead of an annuerism.  

As a conservative suburban white kid 25 years ago, I had a friend show up in blackface for a Halloween party.  Everyone gave him the side eye and a number of people told him he had gone too far and needed to go wash the makeup off.  If a group of teenagers in the 90's can figure out it’s a bad idea, how the hell can a…

My daughter went to preschool three full days each week. Some of her friends went five days (more for daycare than anything else). We didn’t want or need to pay for the extra days. We told her if she worked really hard, we’d let her go to kindergarten all five days. Everyone go to go to five day kindergarten. This lie…

Yeah, but who’s river caught fire on more than one occasion?

While I agree with your point that freedom of expression doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, in the case of the far/alt-right, its closer to yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded building. With modern communication tech, it’s so easy for them to get their message out to a huge audience with the click of a mouse. There’s no…

As a born and bred Detroiter, there’s some bad sports years on the horizon. The Tigers and the Wings both hung on to aging stars for too long and have a lot of awful losses coming as the go through rebuilds that are five years overdue. The Pistons ray of hope is Blake freaking Griffin, so no hope there.

Of course they’re more efficient, never mind the heat islands they create, the pollution that is centralized there, the runnoff from industrialism that’s created, higher incidences of diseases, and the impact on wildlife - cities are much better. I’m not saying the burbs are perfect but to say city living is the only…

I’m genuinely curious- why is it such a bad thing for you?  I know everyone has different ideas of theirs life, and yours sounds very City-centric. You can see from my posts I’m pretty comfortable in the burbs, what do you have against them?  I’m not trying to start a beef, just get a different perspective?

Technology isn’t displacing labor, it’s changing it. You’re making the same argument the buggy whip manufacturers made when the car came along. 20 years ago, how many people could make a living as a network engineer or an YouTube celebrity? Those same people would have been the CNC operators or cash register repairmen …

The market’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. An excess of people are saying “I want to live in this block and this block only, what will it cost me?” Landlords are more than happy to raise rent to whatever the market bears. If they can get people to live in a dorm on that spot because people aren’t willing to…

I’ve lived in the burbs and commuted in 30-45 minutes each way into a major city for most of my adult life. Jobs are largely place based, but most of the people we are discussing in this article are part of a mobility society where they can move. They are choosing to pack in like sardines because they couldn’t lower…

I have a friend who lives in Hong Kong. He just paid $1.3M USD for a 560sq. ft. 2 bed 1 bath apartment.  New York/ San Francisco have nothing on that.

Part of this is a bias against the burbs. No where in HamNo’s screed did he mention why you must live in a city. It’s like cities are walled off like Mega-City One and those of us in the burbs are wasteland mutants that should be shot on sight.

I bought some five spice the other day because I couldn’t get my stir frys to taste right without it. I’m going to try it in my coffee and bourbon (separately).

I’d love to see someone like Jacksonville or Carolina try and push a new stadium or we’ll move threat and the city just point to LA and ask how it went.

In our house, the saying was “Don’t argue with a toddler.  One of you loses and one of you looks like a toddler.”