As a white Southerner, the racial coding of fried chicken and watermelon has always baffled me. All* southerners love fried chicken and watermelon (*by all, I mean the vast majority regardless of race - there are always exceptions). These are staples. The official food of Nashville is hot fried chicken (as in, only…

Hmm, the only chicken I buy from them is the canned stuff (because a single guy does not need 30 lbs of fresh chicken, and my freezer is full already.) Well, if they can't find a non-antibiotic supplier, I probably have a lifetime supply already.

I for one would not have voted for conviction. I would have voted that you be awarded ice cream.

Given all the unsolved murders in low-income minority neighborhoods, I wonder just how accurate this profile is to begin with.

Put another way, men kill for no good reason, women kill for explainable reasons. Though that doesn't fit with the usual sexist stereotypes, so that was not the conclusion of the study.

redact - redundant

We're not really sure why Mercedes makes AMG versions of nearly everything they sell, but we hope they keep doing it. It's the reason why wonderfully confusing cars like the R63 AMG exist, a 507 hp MPV.

I'm descended from many nonagenarians and a few centenarians. But then Dad died at 71. So, not sure whether I should eat ramen when I retire or just say fuck it and drink all the vodka/magic mushroom cocktails my "pension" can buy me.

Make friends with crows. Sometimes they bring you stuff you can make cool jewelry from. As in, "I made this necklace from gifts the crows brought me." As in, "Mess with me and you'll get to meet my friends, the crows."

I think the folks in charge would be very much against that. Mao is quite useful to them dead - alive? A morphine addicted megalomaniac who actually buys into (some) of the Revolution bullshit? No thank you.

Reminds me a video I saw: A parrot lives in a house with two dogs. There are geese that occasionally hang out a pond in the back yard. and the dogs like to race out and chase the geese. So the parrot learned to make noises like a flock of geese whenever it wanted to get the dogs to go away.

There are a number of people now mostly in their 30s and early 40s whose parents were killed in the dirty wars of Argentina and Chile, mainly, and then raised by supporters of the military regimes. Early on, it was a case of young leftists being killed, and their child being taken more-or-less as an afterthought.…

Eh, you talk to the wrong liberals. I'm quite left, and I don't go off on "America is the worst" rants. I mean, if there is a specific tissue at hand, I'll talk about what I think is wrong, but I love this place, and we are pretty good on a number of liberal issues compared to a lot of places.

Well, the jokes are just about as bad. Someone just drag out Bob Hope's corpse and rig it with a speaker and a tape and he can host all the Oscar's to come.

Fear. Every jingoist, every bully, every racist, every authoritarian is at their core a simple coward. They need to be called on it every single damn opportunity.

I was a waiter for all of eight weeks, many, many years ago. I have been overtipping ever since.

Only if you save bread.

Don't know about Canada, but in Spain fresh milk come in a bag. There are pitchers designed the size and shape of the bag - you drop the bag in, snip the corners, and voila. Also, I think my Spanish landlady thought I hella weird as an adult wanting fresh milk. Almost all milk in Spain comes in boxes, and far as I…

This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism."

I think the definition of "downside" here is admitting that slavery was kind of not nice. Also, any textbook that doesn't have halos for all of its pictures of Reagan (and there needs to be lots of those) is a bummer.