Inherited a number of cookbooks from my grandmother, inc several from that era, and there is a ludicrous amount of canned goods & "oleo" featured

Though from your descriptions of a slightly more rural environs, I'm guessing these books skipped straight past those trends

Legitimately podcasts, substacks & even microblogging sites have been great as recommendation generators.

With not too much effort, it's much easier to find people with both broader & more refined versions of your tastes now

That may be, but it's harder to do Horns Down in that configuration

R-Point

This game would have ended with the Wanamaker's Santa getting pelted with something fifty years ago.

Smh town's gone soft

Doggo has the right idea; spend as much time with your grandparents while you can

Why are the Eastern despotates so far ahead of us in the wild animal domestication race?

I suppose I'd be more disappointed, if I werent riding on the high of the burn on my hand resolving itself into a first degree instead of second degree

Supervillain who is determined to bring about a new (Little) Ice Age because of his sartorial preferences

What if the Navy only staffed the ships but otherwise had no control over anything.

Have some other agency design/buy all their hardware, facilities, logistics, etc. Then it's up to them to do something with it

None of those promotional materials featuring lobster thermidor for everyone that dummies obsess over adequately depict how full of tobacco smoke the cabins were

He also previously ran a couple opiod pill mill pharmacies while in Congress