Good to know! Filing that away for future home improvement jobs. 

Oh no! You’ll be missed, Claire (but I shall find you wherever you land, and I say that in a non-creepy way). I’ve so enjoyed your voice, your wit, and your work. So many of your recipes have ended up in my repertoire. Thanks for everything. Wherever you go next is lucky to have you. 

There is so much wrong with how we feed children in schools. (First off, so many schools start so early now, we should be offering breakfast as well, but that’s another argument for another time). School lunch should be universal and free, and it should be tasty and nutritious. And kids should have more than 15…

If/when this amendment passes, Ohioans owe a huge debt of gratitude to two groups: Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights. These two groups were campaigning separately and weren’t in complete alignment with how they wanted to proceed, came together when it mattered and got shit…

Calling The Shark is Broken a Broadway sensation is probably a bit of a stretch. The reviews have been mixed to poor, with the NYT calling it “bloodless and toothless,” and Deadline said it was “too slender a tale, too gentle, to provide thrills or even, truth be told, much drama.” It’s not exactly packing theaters,…

This is why school lunches should be universally free. 

If you’re considering floor outlets, just remember: walls are much easier to patch than floors. If you want to relocate a wall outlet, you just need to patch the drywall and repaint. If your outlets are in the floors...you could be in for a lot of work for a patch that even after all that work still won’t match. Think…

This. I don’t know anybody who works a 9-5 with a commute who isn’t burned out, whether they admit it or not. The average American’s commute is about 30 minutes, so there’s lots of people getting up at 7:30, leaving their house by 8:30, working 9-5:15 (let’s face it, nobody leaves right at 5:00), and getting home…

It’s weird to me that AV Club made the #1 item on their “must watch” list something that they absolutely panned in their very own review. 

The pro-abortion rights campaign is very visible and is on TV, streaming, and billboards all around my city. They’re not engaging with the most crazy of the crazy claims, but they’re good ads that put the issue into sharp relief and tell compelling stories. The last I heard the pro campaign was outspending the vote no…

I honestly don’t think I could buy a house that smells of smoke. There would have to be major concessions from the seller on price for smoke abatement, because getting that smell out is a major, major pain in the ass. The steps above are not an exaggeration. I once rented an apartment that the previous occupant had…

Well, that didn’t last long. I logged in to try to get the yearly subscription, and it’s not $69 anymore, it’s $99. No thanks. Apple TV+ will join the ranks of all my other a la carte streaming services: subscribe for a month or two, then unsubscribe for 4-6 months at a time.

I’ve been driving a traditional hybrid for about three months now. It’s amazing. Love it. I’m getting 50 mpg and going 520+ miles on a tank. I took a 700 mile (each way) road trip and had to fill up once each way. Outside of that road trip, I’ve filled up one time in three months.

“If Timberlake is so affected, I have to wonder why hasn’t he, say, issued a diplomatic statement, or spoken to Spears behind the scenes—and before you wonder whether he has already, the tabloid’s sources insist otherwise.”

One Pan Pork Tenderloin:

Yes. Empire of Pain and Dopesick (the book and the series) make it very clear that certain regions were targeted because they were ripe for exploitation.

I haven’t read The Hard Sell, but it seems like Evans’ and Blunt’s characters are based on Alec Burlakoff and Sunrise Lee, who also figure prominently in HBO’s documentary Crime of the Century. If so, then I admire the balls of whoever decided to go ahead with Pain Hustlers as a satirical/funny take on the opioid…

Being a decent person is incompatible with working for the Trump administration. Spicer was a buffoon behind the podium, but he was also a bootlicking yes man who, despite his brief tenure, did damage to this country. 

The day after the election, I remember going into my office at the university even though I didn’t have office hours that day. I ended up sitting in our building’s staff lounge area with 4 others. None of us had to work in the office that day. We just couldn’t be alone. And yet, we just sat their silently, numb,…

Yep. I worked at the time with a bunch of international students, helping them through the writing of their dissertations. Within a week of Trump’s inauguration, I had three separate meetings with students where they cried because their parents had planned to come see them graduate, but their visas had been cancelled.…