In college I worked for a lighting company that lit the tent on the South Lawn of the White House in 1999. The Clinton’s had that tent up for a year, and every event was decorated, lit, and run completely differently. Setting up those events is not for the faint of heart. That took a command of logistics that rivals…

More than half the time I eat that Hot Pocket, I get cooked from the inside anyway. 

That’s smart! You’re giving the botulism a fake target. While it goes for the easy score of the potatoes in the oven, you’re eating the ignored, bacteria free ones on your plate.

Did I miss in the article how it works as a phone? Do you hold it to your ear open or shut, or is that strictly a bluetooth process?

I have been installing Ecobees as part of my HVAC business from the first generation. As I say to my customers, the Nest was developed by gadget people to be a thermostat and the Ecobee was developed by thermostat guys to be a gadget. The Ecobee is more robust in the things it can do for the system than the Nest.

Speaking as a man, having an extra wife should enable you to almost double the workload. So you figure each wife would increase the work done by 1.8 times.

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history…

I had thought she understood
They have never understood
And no reason that they should

Thank you. I know it’s a very sensitive topic for people, and trying to get across a tone of playful and silly rather than hateful is difficult on the internet. I’m taken much more seriously on the internet than I should be. 

Look, I mean this in as respectful a way as I can. I am categorically not trying to insult or degrade anyone, but this is the way my brain works.

No love for The Pirate King? He’s voiced by Brian Blessed!

Oh crap! Gold *and* bullets? So no mutant werewolves?

I’ll nitpick this: the other reason the statues were put in place is to constantly have the reminder that a large section of the population was willing to go to war to keep slaves. Which has the double purpose of keeping the antagonism alive, and reminding whole swaths of people that they were considered cattle.

I’m going to point out how important small things like that are on the sanity of those working under conditions like that. I’m sure the WH domestic staff is trained to keep as much rolling under the guise of normalcy to help minimize stress. They’re able to provide subconscious clues that everything is normal, and the…

Not on masks, but on the completely new virus that no one had seen before? Yes. Lots more research and information came to light over time.

This is a typo, but one that makes me wonder if you were sold out of an Victorian orphanage to a chimney sweep.  

Or you end up with carnivorous zebras. Which is just in line with how this year’s going anyway. 

It’s Blather’s response to the donation that kills me. 

You watch what makes you happy, and damned anyone else.

The first hour was the most amusing, heartbreaking, and tense thing I have watched in ages. As a former theatre teachers, my wife, myself and our 15 y.o. emerging theatre kid were in stitches with the technical difficulties. We have all been there when something goes wrong onstage an there’s nothing you can do but…