if you’re into audio books, Wisconsin Public Radio does a show literally called “Chapter A Day” where they have one of the announcers read a book in roughly half-hour chunks (aired during the second half of the lunch hour.)

for escapist fantasy, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence are all good times.

i mean, couldn’t you just make a vegetable dip with it? get some carrot and celery sticks, mix in some sour cream (or maybe try half reg, half that microwaved jelly trick?) and you should be good to go.

along with suggesting pitchers at the dive bar, maybe try to pitch an after-hours BYOB potluck? the all-dip party someone on The Takeout suggested once sounded like a blast to me and you should be able to brown bag a bottle of Boone’s Farm or something from the nearest 7-11 to keep your costs low.

it’s 2019, dude or dudette on the internet - if you can’t figure out that racist bullshit is just a smokescreen to justify your fears, that’s on you and your fuckin’ ignorance. there’s no excuse for it anymore.

what are the “really legitimate reasons” these people are so fuckin’ afraid, tho?

not to be a prick, but there better be a tribute to Rick Veitch in the credits because, what with the subject matter and that costume, i’m getting a real MAXIMORTAL vibe.

no, you don’t get to have it both ways: if you’re going to support the right of the state to FORCE pregnant women to have babies, then you have to pay to clothe, feed, treat, etc. those children as well.

they already got you to give up your data - they don’t need to cater to you anymore.

anyone know if they block sports broadcasts? i live in the pittsburgh pirates broadcast area but miss listening to the milwaukee brewers of my childhood in wisconsin. and, yeah, i know i could pay for an MLB subscription, but i’m a poor.

but... if you eat your sandwich first, what do you dip into the soup?! dipping a gooey grilled cheese into one of those 33 cent CupONoodle things is one of life’s great pleasures, especially if the grilled cheese is made with good bread and a nice sharp cheddar combined with some melty mozz... something about dunking…

i think the look is fine - it gives me a real Hardware-vibe, kinda clunky and idiosyncratic.

i’d be interested in learning more about the economics behind this issue and how the sales are interpreted by DC. anyone know the page count and the number of pages devoted to story vs ads?

Robin Hobb, kind of.

i have trouble with him personally for a couple reasons but if you can put aside your feelings about a problematic author, i really enjoyed Orson Scott Card’s ENCHANTMENT. it’s a modern-day retelling of the Sleeping Beauty legend - a contemporary language scholar stumbles upon the beauty while running in the forests…

c’mon - compare this to any of the idiotic gibberish Trump tweets out on a daily fuckin’ basis... at least warren’s heart was in the right place.

i left wisconsin in 2004 and while i still have family there, it’s not like i’m checking in on hometown news every day. but, from what i can tell, i think the lame duck shenanigans the republicans tried to ram through have all been overturned by the courts. which was good news (although i don’t know the state of any…

John Oliver is an entertainer, a comedian. He is neither a political leader or a journalist in the media.

i moved to west virginia from wisconsin in 2004 to study historic preservation. that means i’m not an expert in the economic tribulations of the region, but i have seen a lot of them firsthand during the last 15 years.

time to earn a No-Prize, i guess.