Yeah, the regular ones. But like, a famous singer/model/actor or whatever who is super talented and trying to come here to work might get the special visa for being special. Melania was never special.

I’d gladly take a living wage than have to worry if I’m going to have a $300 shift or a $47 one.

I know it’s jail time and a huge fine to marry someone for a green card followed by deportation. I doubt anything will happen to her, but it’ll be nice to see conservatives try to explain why an exception for her was necessary and how chain migration is not really applicable with her and her parents.

I don’t know how to balance being so thoroughly unsurprised at a display of racist hypocrisy in this administration, and being so thoroughly disgusted and enraged by it.

Models and performers are sometimes given this visa. However, it’s like...successful people. Not just topless models who do the occasional campaign. She shouldn’t have gotten it, period.

well they are the same height...5' 11" - 6' 0"

Hey, that’s not a fair comparison. Melania’s clearly further back in the shot.

No one told you how to tip. People asked which servers prefer, and she told us. That’s it. Literally anything else you’re feeling is, well, exactly that: your feelings.

hmm.

In general, I enjoy and get a lot out of this column. I believe in tipping fairly, generously when I can, and in trying not to be a jerk to the waitstaff. But how I tip is really my business — and if it’s more convenient for me to tip on the card (it is), I’m going to tip on the card. It also helps remind me of the…

Yeah, so I’m going to need to see some more details on this. I certainly don’t trust the African National Congress to be able to competently carry something like this out, regardless. This doesn’t sound like it’s based in sound policy, but base electoral politics.

The issue is that creating an maintaining a farm is a multigenerational effort. A lot of the work you do is not going to pay off for many decades. The motivation for doing hard work that will not benefit you is that you are doing it for your kids or grandkids, just like previous generations did the same for you. When…

This is a good idea and could be developed further.  

Fifteen years ago, the government [of Zimbabwe] began seizing property from thousands of white farmers and giving it to blacks as recompense for the abuses of colonial rule. But now, as agricultural output stalls, black landowners are quietly reaching out to white farmers who were thrown off their land.

So, towards the end of the article, the Zimbabwe situation was mentioned. To be clear, the government of Zimbabwe fucked this up bad, and in the process destroyed a huge part of the economy. White farm-owners got nothing, black farm-getters were not properly screened or trained to see if they knew how to —you know—…

Where would they go? You really think they’d be welcome anywhere else? They’re not all Charlize Therons. Land owners aside, there’s a huge population of Afrikaners that live in abject poverty, and there’s a growing base of white supremacist movements there. There’s a few specials on the squatter camps they live in…

I agree with your first take. Disagree with your second take. People who were born there are South African citizens. That genie is already out of the bottle. The land seizing however is definitely justice.

Hard to be sympathetic to the white minority. Benefited from apartheid for years. Now losing lands that were simply “taken” by European ancestors (years ago) from the native inhabitants.

I think you can divide the 'weird' cuts of meat in three categories:
The challenge with trotters, tails and ears is not in the taste but in the texture. Gelatinous, a bit fatty, some cartilage. Can be delicious, but it really depends on the preparation and the skill of the cook. And even then I can imagine it's not for…

Eel’s one you won’t find so often in part because it’s pretty damn depleted, with a lot of the remaining catch in New England actually going to Japan because they have worse depletion problems there.