Growing up in New England, we had “peanut butter bars” (at least in my family; gods know where grandma got the recipe from originally, probably a ‘50s housewife magazine.)

This is the first time in longer than I can remember that I’ve seen “grain” as a unit of weight applied to something other than a bullet. Pharmaceuticals long ago swapped grains for milligrams.

As my mother would be the first to tell you, even if Dad and the kids do their best, Mom still has to go back and do it right. You can’t let her off the hook even with the best of intentions.

This was precisely my thought. Kids need to learn, and have the lesson reinforced as early and often as possible, that not everything is about them.

I ditched all social media as part of a New Year’s resolution to take better care of my mental health. I’d ditched Facebook in 2017 (and deleted my account in 2018) and finally did the same for Twitter last Christmas. I was never on Instagram or any of the other platforms that are probably out there but I’ve never…

At some point the American right has to have a reckoning. The most dangerous thing to happen to progressives and evangelicals alike would be for pro-business moderate Republicans and centrist Democrats to realize that if each simply abandons their fringe and comes together on a common platform, and if they formed a…

During the worst of the pandemic, when countries around the world were racing to develop the COVID vaccine first, I said half-seriously that if another country gets a working vaccine out, they should put an embargo on shipments of it to the US.

“mOdS mAkE gAmEs BeTtEr”

“Across 2 beloved XBox franchises”...

Ben-Hur: The Game of the Movie

“Eventually, I moved into my own apartment back in the Bronx and was met with the classic issue of living in a borough that contains small pockets of food deserts; there were no good grocery stores within walking distance.”

I’ll throw another chip on the pile for Tennessee. There’s regular racism, there’s blue state covert racism and de facto segregation, and then further down the Racism Highway, there’s overt racism, and that’s when you know you’re in Tennessee.

I’m a religious man, and every once in awhile the gods do something to remind me why I believe in them.

“Dedicated u-turn? Why would you need that when everywhere is u-turn capable?”

Whatever’s cheapest, in “original” or chicken flavor. I’m not a fan of the stuff, though...when times get tough, I usually go with dry spaghetti or canned tuna or canned pasta. If I’m down to blocks of ramen, I am absolutely scraping the barrel and the fight’s probably already lost.

For the same reason accepting money from people in order to give them rides in a car isn’t a taxi service.

No, Bryant says “she feels she did not consent”, which weasel words but also which indicates that from a legal point of view he’s saying “this could come down to he said, she said, but instead we’re just going to settle and move on before this gets to be any more of a circus.”

The sexual assault part was alleged. The cheating on his wife part was remedied by a several-million-dollar bribe of a gift (it was something like $4 million big fat 2004 dollars for a diamond ring) and a decade and a half of becoming the best “girl dad” he could be to his kids.

Allegedly. And say what you will about him, but if the statements of the people around him when he died were anything to go by, he spent most of the next 16 years redeeming himself.

I have no qualms about letting tech-bro shitheads and corporate assholes eat each other economically. My line in the sand is locally-owned small businesses, which I fully intend to start regularly hitting up after Second Dose Day and throughout this summer. I sadly lagged on that during the pandemic (COVID scared the…