Speculation: the writers get the equivalent of the pitch - “girl gets kidnapped by a violent mafiosa who *truly loves* her, and she tames his wild heart!” and then have to work out a path from here to there in however many days of writing they are allocated.

I am enough of an ‘old’ that Youtubers still strike me as at best c-grade reality show jackasses with no editing staff to help them get better, with a few notable exceptions.

No one said ‘shut down’, what is required is that we reopen in a safe and effective manner.

I restrung my guitar but until daycare reopens, cant touch it.

Fun fact: from what my relative told me ~10 years ago, he would routinely save all his paperwork for end of shift, even if he had nothing to do, then go to his station house and type it up on a typewriter, and his union opposed computerization of such records because it would not allow ‘after shift overtime pay’…

And, Padma is hardly a shill for ‘American food’.

Exactly! If the damn thing has been there since last fall, either his team has seen it many, many times already, or someone else has, and either way, they left it.

“I want a show that tells me I suck for liking Panda Express or Taco Bell, and that I should never ever eat at either.”

“All lives matter” is proving to be the worst whack-a-mole event ever.

Even if someone hates ‘dumb movies’, that one is always good. The jokes and asides are gold.

There are many shows, cited in this story, that draw attention to amazing world cuisines and the people behind them. The specific focus of this series is the specific foods that have crossed over to ‘American mainstream’ acceptance and are readily available in strip malls, food courts, etc. - in a form that is almost…

I actually agree 100%.

Lifelong VW driver here, except a one-time dalliance with an ‘86 Ford Mustang (never again!). Ive got an ‘06 Jetta TDI now, waiting on the promised electric Minivan reboot a year or two from now, but may have to consider a used Alltrack instead, for reasons I cannot adequately explain.

As I noted in another response - I was basing my remark on a sample of 1, who is a standard officer after 15+ years because he is an idiot and cant get promoted.

Fair to say. I have one relative on the NYPD who could no way afford to live in Manhattan - I know what he makes. I was judging based on that. He has several kids, no side hustle and while his wife works, it wouldnt put them over enough to live there.

Whats wrong with Risk, aside from taking all night to play, especially when some clown occupies Australia and just turtles it out forever?

Sure, but the rest of the company leadership is apparently doing the right thing, or at least, doing the best they can to get right.

Ok, one of my few gripes with President Obama was that he had seemed late to lunch with regard to supporting gay marriage and related LGBT civil rights.

Not if she lives *in* NYC.

Almost - it is false equivalence in support of willful ignorance about race in America and its impact, especially on people of color.