Need to put these two in different conferences, so if they meet at all, it's in the finals:

Is there something a little bit odd about A CHANCE TO CUT IS A CHANCE TO CURE and BODILY FUNCTIONS being released in the same year?

It's a tough business, especially now that most people who might take up homebrewing are lifelong digital natives.

If your local homebrew shop is mid-pivot to also selling cheesemaking supplies, or hydroponic gardening equipment, or disc golf accessories, etc., they're probably already struggling.

"Okay, maybe a little bit of pleasure."

Stabler's been a tradcath for a while now

I think 2001's a pretty good year for hip-hop albums, especially more indie-leaning stuff ('The Best Part,' 'Labor Days,' 'The Cold Vein,' etc., etc.)

Here's the first single from Dilated Peoples' 2001 album 'Expansion Team':

* Romancing the Cold Stone Creamery

* Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing of the Dolls

* The Texas Roadhouse Massacre

The title track from the William Parker Quartet's 2001 album, 'O'Neal's Porch':

I think this one might be worse than either of those:

3. They think Trump was anointed by God.

Me: So, Flea made an Andre 3000 record, this might not be entirely terrible.

Tom: "His delivery is somewhere between Sun Ra-style chanting and hardcore-frontman ranting.... "A Plea" turns into an actual plea to "live for peace, live for love" and to "see the god in everyone.""

Me: Well, I'm out.

"Though Nuzzi is only 32, she has for years reminded me of old-fashioned New Journalists like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese."

Free jazz

Chris Cillizza says 'totally inoffensive,' Van Epps' first wife says 'complete moron'

For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS.
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
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Rick Springfield would've been 32 at the time--I'm guessing there's someone older, but it's a start.

"That guy who made a stupid just-asking-questions argument about how far-right activists forced a trans person out of her job is anything but anti-trans."

Hakeem Jeffries is borrowing a slogan from a bad book written by a venture capitalist in an effort to light the same fire among Dem voters that Joe Biden did when he said 'nothing will fundamentally change.'