My wife and I have gotten into the habit of doing a turkey breast when it’s just the two of us. It still provides quite a bit of leftovers, but if you get a smaller one it’s not too bad. Plus, they’re really easy to smoke on a standard charcoal grill and get the most gorgeous mahogany coloring when it’s finished.

It’s not just about bad numbers, it’s about good numbers as well. 15.8 million viewers is a HUGE number for a show these days. By comparison, The Walking Dead’s premiere brought in 15 million viewers in three-day viewing. The biggest shows on broadcast (The Big Bang Theory, This Is Us, and The Good Doctor) are all…

The CDC separates violent deaths into six separate categories based on intent: Accident, suicide, homicide, intent unknown, legal intervention, and operations of war. So, homicide will refer to any intentional killing of another person that is not ruled accidental, whether criminal or not, including issues of…

Chevy likes toys that are too big for her, which is good because pretty much every toy is too big for her.

Because calling them “bad people,” or “evil,” or “psychopaths,” or “lunatics,” as all the Republican politicians have done today, absolves us of the responsibility of owning up to the fact that it’s not always “bad people” who do harm with a gun.

James Loewen’s Sundown Towns has a ton of great examples of this. I don’t necessarily recommend the book (it’s overly long, extremely repetitive, and written in a tone of “Oh My God! You guys will never believe this!!!” that I don’t care for), but it’s worth skimming, if only for example after example of towns…

Dude, just rotate your subscriptions. We subscribed to HBO this summer, which allowed us to watch Game of Thrones and catch up on Westworld and Big Little Lies. Then we canceled HBO and subscribed to Starz, which lets us watch Outlander and catch up on Survivor’s Remorse. Outlander will end and we’ll switch to CBS to…

It’s $6/mo with commercials so, watched in real time, it will cost you $18. Or you could wait until the first 9 episodes have aired and subscribe for one month for $6 and binge the ones you missed.

“Extortion”? What extortion? They made a product and are asking people to pay for it. You’re certainly welcome to not consume it.

For about seven years, part of my job was to be the librarian who decides what donated books get added to the collection. The advice I always give to people is to ask themselves why they want to get rid of their book(s). Is it because it’s old and taking up space on your shelf and you just don’t want it anymore? …

As somebody else recommended, Better World Books will take most things, if there’s a drop box near you.

Agreed. I’ve looked into getting a Tivo, but commercial-free Hulu is $12/mo and gets me everything on NBC, ABC, and Fox without commercials. The CBS and CW apps have ads but they’re not that intrusive and are usually quite a bit shorter than broadcast ad breaks. And they’re free.

Joe Walsh had himself an entire career today. It was kind of amazing, in a horrible, racist kind of way.

I’ve been trying to not to get all hipstery with the “You haven’t really seen an eclipse until you’ve seen the totality,” but this was my first total eclipse and it really is spectacular to see the totality.

Can somebody explain the scoring to me. Isn’t a 6-4 tiebreaker in the third set the end? Why do they play another game?

“Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?”

I’ve owned multiple versions of this game and had never seen the fifth level before today.

Because the purpose is to get a representative sample, and you would miss the increasing number of homes (about 10%) that don’t have cable/sat or the 50% of homes that don’t have DVRs.

Cincinnati chili is fine once you get past the fact that it’s called “chili.” Hand somebody a plate, call it “Greek Spaghetti,” and they’ll usually like it.

Both Battlestar Galactica and Lost had endings that were perfectly fitting to their shows.