Drew: you’ve written a number of thoughtful pieces that I’ve much admired—you aren’t just a jokester, although you have made me laugh out loud many times, which is a rare enough thing for someone who has been fundamentally pissed off for 35 years, and I offer you my most sincere thanks...

Angostura: no Rule Brittania without it.

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I am shocked no one specified that you should only use Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, never that tasteless curly variety.

1. To those who say that Trump is “insane,” “needs therapy,” or anything along those lines, I implore you, stop! Before sinking to my present unexalted status (I am a lawyer), I was in the building trades for over 20 years—and what Trump is, many and many a man (I hesitate to assign a percentage) is as well. Were they…

I knew a black deputy sheriff who said that if he was ever accused of anything that might provoke a law enforcement response, he was going to strip naked, sit on his front porch steps, put his hands on top of his head with fingers laced, and pray.

If you were fomenting a deep, dark, intricate conspiracy, who’s the last person on earth you’d tell?

My first thought was, “What idiot let a law student get empaneled?”

I used to visit friends who lived on the 400 block (seem to recall it was 417) of Frederick in order to buy acid in bulk. Thereafter I lived on a crowded houseboat in Sausalito, Gate 6, Kappas Harbor. This was in 68-72. I cannot express how much I loved it there, even though we were all living in wretched poverty (my…

Word.

In my state (WA), they are called “recovery agents.”

Thanks much

I’m running Win 7 and I’d like to stick with it for the time being. Is upgrading to 10 the only ironclad solution?

There’s something I’ve not heard brought up concerning Comey’s firing and HRC’s emails.

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Lapsed RC here (of the Ould Sod lineage): you never ate anything before Mass. The idea was you must not gulp the Host down to dissolve on top of a secular seething of ham and eggs, thereby polluting it or denaturing it or some such nonsense. And I will tell you that if you were attending the High Mass at eleven…

Il Douche

Back in my framing days, I would use it to determine how long I had been somewhere.

The Khans appeared at the Dem convention in response to Trump;s relentless attacks on Muslims, Trump trotted out the SEAl’s widow in order to bask in the applause and use an anecdote to justify wrecking important agencies, e.g the State Dept., EPA, etc., to dump further funds into the coffers of the military (who I…

The Khans appeared at the Dem convention because of Trump’s relentless demonizing of Muslims.