Oh man, we got the “gateway drug” spiel every year when we did drug abuse education in health class and in DARE. It was part of the trifecta of abuse education education lies dispensed through DARE. Those lies are:

I still dream about the meals I had a little holes in the wall, or the street food I had in places like Jerusalem, Bangkok, Rome and Paris. So much incredible food is out there for under like $10. 

I can understand people who say they prefer a fatty piece of meat if that meat is well marbled. That sort of cut will be easy to chew because the fat is dispersed throughout. But I don’t get people who like big chunks of fat running through their meat. That kind of fat is hard to chew and has a horrible texture, and…

My favorite response to the tweet with the video is this one: “Or you could have flown to Brazil and had the best meal of your life from a man on a bike.” 

Yep. Felt triathlon bikes start at around $3k. And Felt is, in my opinion, often a great value for the money, so other bikes in that pile are likely even more expensive.* A friend of mine is a serious triathlete and his bike cost him $8k. When you consider the cost of those bikes, plus the pain and suffering of the…

I used to ride 250+ miles a week on my road bike. I unabashedly take up the lane when I ride outside, because otherwise drivers will think it’s OK to try to squeeze past you when there isn’t enough time or space. But now I’m mostly riding indoors on a trainer anyway. Why? A combination of factors, but mostly because…

If it is not as bad, it is only by the very smallest of degrees. Intention matters very little to the cyclists involved. The driver still fully intended to put them in danger through his harassment. Any reasonable person could see that a likely consequence of his actions would have been injury to the cyclists. Even if…

I actually thought the meta-ness made it even worse. It wasn’t good meta. There are usually so few lines that clang in Ted Lasso, which is a testament to their writing staff and the work they do. They manage to incorporate characters’ idiosyncratic, pop culture reference heavy speech patterns in ways that seem natural.…

Yeah, just make a paste and let it sit for 5-10 minutes, then wipe clean with a cloth. Don’t scrub hard since baking soda is mildly abrasive. 

Rebecca’s mother made a joke about how Sam’s boxer briefs left little to the imagination but if the writers really wanted that joke to land they would have chosen a lighter color.

Yeah, I think we’re pushing toward a triumphant if bittersweet ending for sure. I don’t see any way that this show ends without Ted going back to America to be closer to his son, which will be sad for the community and culture he’s built in Richmond. But I think he’ll go out on a high note, with the team either…

Thanks for this. I hadn’t considered that particular interpretation of the scene, and that makes so much sense. Love that way of looking at it. 

I think S2 Nate is meant to contrast with Ted in some ways, particularly in regard to doing the work to become mentally healthy. Ted resists that impulse for most of the season but eventually is open to change and because of that we see him improve. Nate, on the other hand, does nothing to address the places where he…

I think Rupert is less interested in taking Nate on as a coach and more interested in using Nate to sow dissent and take down Richmond from the inside. When you think about it, Nate is still very much a nobody in the broader world of football outside of Richmond. He had his 15 minutes of “fame” and now he’s back to…

Cardamom was my immediate thought when I read the headline. I also thought of Chinese five spice, which is surprisingly good in baked dishes. Despite having some of the same flavors as pumpkin spice, it is distinctly different given the inclusion of fennel and sichuan peppercorns (or ginger...there is some variation…

Eh, maybe, maybe not. Their kid is something like 17 months old right now. IIRC, developmentally by that point kids should be shaking their head no and pointing to things, and they may have a few (just a handful) of “little” words—basically one syllable stuff like no/go/yeah. But mostly around 18 months is when they…

Both. The source material is bad—the plot is weak and the tone is way off (like the review says, Evan does some truly terrible things with very little in the way of consequences). And the film adaptation itself does nothing to mitigate those problems with the source material. In fact, the creators of the film make…

JFC that statement from Cuomo is a monument to his continued arrogance. What in the world does it being “not sexual in nature” have to do with it—also, it was sexual in nature because you groped her ass, dickhead. And who cares if it was in a public setting or that she was an ABC exec? All that shows is that you were…

Just for the sake of clarity: Dopesick on Hulu is a drama miniseries, not a documentary series. I’m looking forward to it. If you’re looking for a stellar docuseries on the opioid crisis, check out The Crime of the Century on HBO.

Yeah, I use this all the time, particularly in e-mail correspondence with my students. If they’ve asked a question and I’ve given them a lengthy written answer, I’m going to open it back up to them at the end of the so that they can refine and extend their question if they have to. Does this make sense? What…