Thank you for actually addressing the difference between poached and soft-boiled. (I don’t know that I’ve ever eaten a soft-boiled egg, so the strength of the reaction is pretty surprising to me.) “Softer” and “luscious” are qualities I could look for.

Looks like you only got through Page 1 of that Open Secrets report? There’s another 2 pages of folks who took $2,500 or less.

Switching the channels on your wireless network is a great solution and I’ll definitely try it. If it’s not available to you, there’s another option - turn your wifi off on your computer or mobile device. Obviously, there are a lot of scenarios where this doesn’t work (streaming media, listening while surfing or…

Yup. I can see the appeal of removing “figure out and pack lunch” from most mornings, but I see it being replaced by “stress out once a week trying to look good for the other parents.”

Oh, about the same age that they learn to throw the discus.

Not enough stars in the sky for this comment. (Actually, as soon as I saw the words “mimosa bar” my general reaction was “you had it coming.”)

Or maybe “Naan naan naan naan na naan... gettin’ jiggy with it...”

Great post. And yes - Utz’s crab chips are better than Herr’s. But any crab chips are better than no crab chips, especially since I went and moved to the midwest. (Also, Utz’s Carolina BBQ chips perfect both the salt-and-vinegar chip and the BBQ chip, at the same beautiful time.)

I believe firmly that mac and cheese comes out of a blue box from the Kraft corporation. But... I think there are some entries on this list which could make me change my mind. (In part because I think I believe mac and cheese should be massively salty and “cheese”/yeasty, and some of these toppings might get me back…

Do it! I’ve got a friend who is commuting weekly to her fencing lessons an hour away in the big city. I mean, you might discover “that was fun, but not worth the drive”... but what if you discover “that’s SO MUCH fun that it IS worth the drive”?

I won’t bore you with the obvious long-term savings realized by replacing paper bills that last a year and a half with coins that last generations.

Well, if it’s about beauty, let’s just put another statue up there. Problem solved.

Let’s start with General Sherman. There oughta be statues of the great man who fought to preserve his country all over the southland.

Yeah - you can see this already with the tariffs on imported goods, where huge lobbyist and lawyer bills are run up trying to get goods into the most advantageous categories.

Except you can’t see it, because it’s pretty darn opaque to the end consumer.

There’s an old Buddy Hackett story that points out it works both ways. Hackett was working in the motor pool when a phone call came in:

If that’s a scan of the actual order with 3 Ls in Mr. Williams’ name, I’ll lay 5 bucks they’re going to make a big deal about how that’s his corporate strawman name, not his Natural Citizen name, and file something with lots of Capitalized and all-caps WORDS and written in RED INK denying the validity of the judgment…

“world’s most obvious Oberlin alum Lena Dunham”

Chargebacks are supposed to protect account holders from fraud - either by vendors, or through account theft. So a more complicated (but fairer) process might be to write a specific, actionable claim - something that could go to court. If the vendor took money and never delivered, they should pay the fees. (And maybe…

I agree strongly that I’d love to see urban-rural data analyzed. (Or state trooper vs. county vs local PD.) Living in a pretty darn rural small town in Ohio, though, I reserve judgment on where you’d be more likely to be stopped. Our local cops don’t seem too afraid to pull the “y’all ain’t from around here” act.…

I mostly share this stunned question. But I will say that I paid the Reading Rainbow subscription fee at least once because I didn’t get around to talking to my kid about how much he actually used it. Sometimes you’re paying for the right to imagine you’ll use the service - like a gym membership.

The other thing I can…

It probably has to do with the kind of potatoes you like. Microwaving waxy potatoes (reds and golds) works pretty OK. Microwaved russets, I just completely disagree - the texture is mealy, not fluffy, and you lose all that lovely crisp skin. This is, admittedly, a very close cousin to what you get when a restaurant…