And @scalzi.com, next time you’re in New York, I’d be happy to spend a little time to educate your palate. HMU.

The middle class of anything is widely acceptable. That's pretty much its definition: good enough for most people. For chocolate, as with most luxury items, there's a lot of fakery, paying for image and diminishing returns for the money. But really good chocolate is, IMHO, worth the money.

1. Anti-semitism at Harvard? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
2. Telling a Board of Directors that they're not in charge of the thing that they're funding and overseeing (and are legally responsible for) rarely ends well.
3. Maybe Bari Weiss is hiring.

Indeed, Radio Userland created a whole new generation and type of journalist and journalism.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

and yet, health insurance companies are reluctant to cover them -- and Medicare won't cover anti-obesity drugs at all.

Did they at least have “Wall of Death?” “Vincent Black Lightning?”

What kind of karaoke bars are you hanging out in, anyway?

You misspelled “Mallomar.”

I’m sure the administration will appeal, while calling the judges all sorts of names.