So do you mean that we’re living in the timeline where von Ludendorff advanced too far at the Marne because he really wanted a cronut? Or is there a recipe out there somewhere for Kaiser Wilhelm’s Hot Chicken?

It is called the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act” - no mention of “stimulus” in there. Putting it in my emergency fund provides for aid, relief, and economic security, if not today, then someday. Plus my bank can always opt to stimulate the economy by lending it out. (Or as a cash reserve to pay out…

There’s a place near me that makes a magnificently thin crust - so much so that doing take-out just isn’t worth it. It’s great in the restaurant, edible right when I get home, and a soggy disappointment when I go back for seconds. But with this tip, I’m wondering if they’re open during the pandemic.

Strong agree. Admittedly, there are psychological benefits to writing fewer checks every month, tracking fewer accounts, and all that. But when I was digging out, I was really motivated to bring those interest charges down as fast as possible. Even more than watching the balances come down, watching the bank make less…

David Chang was born in Vienna, Virginia and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He’s not a foreign-born chef and it’s a pretty big problem that the sentence implies he is.

Defenders of the cash cow sports will point out the positive effects on the other sports. Sure, the football and basketball money rarely makes it out of the athletic department, but it does pay for field hockey and swimming and the upkeep for general fitness facilities. All that helps the school recruit and retain…

I don’t get it. Why would you want more privacy at randomly selected intervals? I guess, as a way to dip your toe in and see if you like DuckDuckGo, it’s a fine first step.

And as far as the switch being hard, as someone who made the switch two or three months ago - not often. The results are comparable. If I need…

The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens. I’ve been trying to drop the line about “concupiscent curds” into conversation for 30 years now.

I noticed that my kid frequently wants plain noodles with parmesan on them. So I made him cacio e pepe and he loved it.

I gotta say I’m in favor of a general “must have bathrooms” law, although you’re probably right that it’s probably a holdover to try and make it more expensive to run a bar.

Marked bathrooms - I’m gonna guess that’s a holdover from the time when it was the radical SJWs who thought unaccompanied ladies should be…

Take your damned star.

Really? What the heck do you keep in your car, a Back Seat of Nails?

I’ve bought tons of these bags from Kroger and I can’t think of one ever ripping. They use pretty durable stuff. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the zip-top fail either, and I know I’ve seen clamshells pop open.

And KCRW is a real NPR station out of Santa Monica. Neat trick that they share an area code.

Yeah, I played with this yesterday, and the fact that it silences all my app notifications makes it a non-starter. I wish Apple understood that Phone and iMessage are just two apps on my pocket computer, and frankly two of the least interesting ones...

Can apps be whitelisted for Do Not Disturb? I want this desperately, but between Google Voice and Hangouts and Slack, I get a fair number of valid notifications which I do want to get through. (Airline apps telling me my flight’s delayed or cancelled would be another example.)

Hang in there, Jamie.

My experience with the debit card has been similarly positive. Most of the time, the payments just go right through. I’ve had my card declined a couple of times, apparently because of the way the vendor’s CC processing is set up - so I pay out of pocket and decide whether it’s worth it to file a receipt.

I disagree. Even in the food section, we expect reporters to exercise judgment and, yes, be “master detectives” for us. Find out the facts and assemble interesting stories beyond just paying attention to who “rants and raves.” (Which maybe are not the words I’d choose when talking about racial discrimination and…

So, I hate to say it but... you left receipts.

The other problem is that most articles are behind a paywall, are very technically written, and most people (me included!) don’t feel like parsing out technical words to reveal what the paper actually says.