Why would you hit an 8 ball with the stick?

True. Of the people who actively follow the news in the Midwest (5%?) NYT is by far the most influential. Everyone else is either completely ignorant or get their fragmented news from social media and Sinclair. Grim.

I disagree. Outside of NYC it is tremendously important. It is the only big-city paper for sale in Iowa stores. It has the largest paid subscription base of any paper in the world. Granted, this more reflects the collapse of newspapers in general.

Nice

This morning?

Improved a bit? If you were born in 1985 life expectancy increased 10 years. Nearly a billion people gained the right to vote. World human rights index increased from .48 to .66. Gays and lesbians went from pariahs to having marriage right in west. Primary education rose from 75 to 86% etc etc

Progress isn't linear, but In your lifetime every single objective measurement of human wellbeing has dramatically improved. Life expectancy, education, human rights, pollution, etc. What is the fantasy year you want to return to to Make Everything Great Again?

What if I'd continued? "After washing down his statin with a mug of decaf, the hero settled into his default breakfast: banana spread on whole-wheat toast ..."

Yep.

Should read the Reddit investigation into this list. www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

Nacho and Nazi are cognates, both derived from the name Ignatius

I heard his mom was hot

Meredith Willson! Know it well from elementary school. Song has an unlikely history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

SE Middle School art class. My son did this a few years ago. A fun project!

My best comebacks come to me 16-24 hours after the argument is over

I wonder what happened to my Sellery Hall roommate, Chad. Did he ever finish that 64 oz bottle of Ralph Loren Polo?

My cousin once said "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! <pause> No, that's preposterous. No one can eat a whole horse. <thinking> I'm so hungry I could eat a large sandwich."

Pez should release the patent on their pill dispensers