With the added benefit of thinking that, though the military is a jingoistic extension of American imperialism, the American President should not make arbitrary policy decisions as if he’s Louis XIV.

This is a terrible example, since The Awakening is an American classic.

I think you missed part of the point. All things that make the a Keurig wasteful also make it horribly inefficient.

German actually has three different gender cases: male, female, and neuter.

It’s nice! Not for 10 grand, but I could definitely hang it up next to my Britney poster and feel like it brought the room together.

I’m desperate for a follow up: Addams Family Reunion. Bring back the entire cast. Gomez, alas, has passed on, but because we’re the Addams, he’s never far from our thoughts. Uncle Fester is mostly a corpse. Morticia has taken up Grandmama’s role. Wednesday has grown out of her deadpan and into the gothy joie de vivre…

The law wasn’t really applied until Giuliani revived it in the 90s.

This is the joke that I wanted.

In a statement, Sunwing said the terms “champagne vacations” and “champagne service” were used to imply the type of service passengers could expect, not describe the beverage specifically.

TBH, neither of these sound great. What would be really cool and totally unfeasible is to have a series like Nero Wolfe or Sherlock, with Nancy Drew solving a different hour-and-a-half long mystery. Take some cues from Riverdale and watch the money pour in.

Exactly. What is she doing to save the world after Civil War as a badass spy, and then how does she come back in from the cold?

Yeah, you know it’s the show’s theme when they hire Susan Sarandon to say it.

The nuclear family? Both A- and B-Plots? Jerry and Beth’s whole relationship? It’s a sitcom where the situations are the multiverse.

Ever notice that men who don’t get this joke also accuse women/feminists of being unfunny killjoys?

Yeah, I don’t know that I disagree with the idea that selflessness is good, but I definitely don’t think selflessness is the highest form of goodness.

Yeah, Bentham is cool because our true motivations aren’t knowable empirically, even to ourselves. So worrying about why you do a thing doesn’t make much difference to him.

You’re rehearsing a type of utilitarianism. Bentham, probably.

The great thing about this ethos is that being good and being an asshole aren’t mutually exclusive positions.

There is no schedule for coming out, and it isn’t a race. Sometimes it’ll be expedient to go back in the closet for a bit, but you’re still you even if you’re not out. You are not being dishonest when you make your safety and happiness paramount. And being out is a marathon, not a sprint—you’ll be coming out in any…

His company was the money person, basically. So little creative control, but without his cash these things wouldn’t exist. That puts hims roughly where the Catholic church was for da Vinci—the patron with the cash.