There was an amendment that failed, etc. but honestly, if they couldn't stop a dumb resolution like this, they should at least have the party discipline to be registered as Present and not cast a vote. But the Democratic leadership has never seen a rake it didn't want to step on.

Yup.

The billionaires can buy a lot of press fluffing--though I kind of suspect the NYT at this point doesn't even need to get paid off, because they're fully in courtier mode. But all the fawning in the world does not a real thing make.

Like, wow, bad. The other stuff is kind of Whole Foods-expensive-not-great, but the instant ramen is WTF happened here.

When you think about any of these movies, it is absolutely impossible to imagine people loving them if they didn't have animated precursors--if this was the first time you'd ever seen these and had no knowledge of the animated, I honestly think you'd go "meh".

I can say one NOT to buy, and that's the Momofuku chili crisp. I dunno what happened with Momofuku's brand products, but imho none of them are very good.

Look, at this point, the news story would be, "What aren't they going to destroy or decimate?" I'm hard-pressed to think of any major aspect of American life that they're not working hard to turn into total failure and shit.

"They chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose. They shared a 'common language, common skepticisms, common ideas about what was beautiful, common beliefs about what was valuable.' ...She liked him just the way he was."

"They both 'moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert'".