Huh. Maybe if Amazon (just to name a random company) paid its workers better . . .

Exactly

“oh THIS is the kind of novel this is. Ok bye”

Lots of steps but not hard. This one’s good: altonbrown.com/recipes/over...

So dumb. “It thought for a split second”—No. It didn’t.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

You're bitter, you see, because deep down you wish YOU'D started a cynical media empire just like Bari did . . . as if that's the ambition of every opinion writer.

If you toss it into a dependent clause AS IF it’s established fact then that’s the same thing right?

He just pure makes shit up

Thank you. Needed that.

Run Lola Run

Oh no! That sucks. I think my empty-nest syndrome manifests itself in an unhealthy interest in my grown kids' daily problems. Like — what was that? you need a frosting recipe? I gotcha kid — as if they couldn't manage themselves. Maybe this is the real reason people crave grandkids . . .

Being a parent is the easiest way to answer the question: what should I do today? (Oh you want life purpose? Here, take care of this helpless creature . . . ) I actually really admire the people who choose not to reproduce, because they have to answer that question from scratch.

I also think there's a tendency to imply that when people react online to the underlying messages in a piece of culture, they AREN'T also doing more active engaged work as citizens. But is that really true? Can't people do both, and the Sweeney-skewering TikToks are just the fun end of it?

Yeah, this was a definite bonus to leaving the WaPo opinion page . . .

Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so.

So progressives are more willing to compromise, more aware of the devastation that Trump would bring, or better people?