Brown-liquor-and-bitters high five! The only time I've ever actually gone Bartender's Choice as at Longman and Eagle in Chicago and I was treated to a perfectly delightful Manhattan with bourbon rather than rye.

Right!? Keep your 6 tbsp of Splenda, Dannon — gimme that milkfat! I'm the same way — I buy a big ol' tub of whole milk yogurt and a jar of Hero all-fruit preserves and am set for weeks.

Her voice is fantastic and I love her style. I think she also has really uneven songwriting — I'll listen to Born to Die, Blue Jeans and Young & Beautiful and just get lost in the sound, but then something like the track linked or National Anthem comes along and the lyrics are just cringeworthy. But that's fine! …

I've never understood why beer is considered the "man's choice." Scotch and bourbon have always seemed much more appropriate — but most of the people I know these days who can appreciate a good whiskey are women. I guess it's a class thing to a large extent.

I think you're exactly right. This is also why the local supermarket has 5,001 brands of vanilla non-fat yogurt but ZERO whole milk / partial fat yogurts.

Right? But Melissa Harris-Perry got a show, so we should just shut up and gratefully watch her fellate the military-surveillance complex.

This very much jibes with my experience working with the elderly for many years. Even my own grandmother, who is politically, personally and religiously conservative, self-identifies as having become much more liberal in her old age. Not only in her political understanding, but in her personal life — she is much…

Bless her! Depression-era folks often have some impressive stories, especially the women. I worked for many, many years in senior care and it was honestly transformative. One of the most engaging things I did there (and really, most engaging things I've done career-wise) was lead weekly Current Events discussions.…

First things first, a great deal of the potential discrimination or disenfranchisement gay cis men possibly face due to their orientation is frequently ameliorated by their cis-male status. In my personal case, I'm also white and middle-class/college-educated, so honestly I've personally seen very little professional…

I kind of made the same point you did about "sissy-boys" in a separate comment. I think privilege of all stripes is provisional on a set of assumptions that you're going to conform to a pretty complex checklist of behaviors. The most privileged categories are also going to have the widest borders, so the acceptable r…

A lot of your stories about childhood ring very familiar. I also was pretty frequently out-grouped/excluded for failing to exhibit socially expected "boy behavior," though in my case this had nothing to do with my gender being misidentified— I have a hard time essentializing it down to my homosexual identity, either…

Yeah, that's how I first had it too! Tabbouleh is so delicious. My recommendation is to make Spanish rice but sub in bulgur for the rice — it plays nicely with tomato and pepper and garlic.

"The subject for today: Does knowledge elevate or demean us?
Or: everything you didn't want to know about my penis."

Farro and Bulgur are both big faves of mine too — they're just a different preparation of wheat and not a totally separate plant, but both are delicious.

If it means bonding over MST3k then hell yes! We can always use an extra set of hands down on the walnut ranch.

Uhhh... solution in search of a problem? I've been in possession of a penis for 30+ years and have not had to deal with this. Did I just luck out and get one of the no-mess tips, like a bottle of mustard post-1998?

So true! Here's my proposal for Top 5:

Totally agreed on all counts. The Final Sacrifice is my all-time #1. I'd also put Hobgoblins and Laserblast up there. I also love all the cheap Japanese sci-fi eps from Season 3 — Mighty Jack and Alien Fugitive especially. I mean... he tried to kill me with a forklift!

I'm guessing his whole PR team has been distracted for the last few weeks, working crisis control for Paula Deen. Seems to be about the same caliber of PR work.

I love you even more now that you posted a Space Mutiny link. God, this is a great episode - Top 5 material for sure.