I would like this over and over if I could. Grateful for both of you!

100%

I had that phone for ten years!

This was an unforced error. An obvious trap. And, as a college prof of two decades, not great teaching. Of course the essay sucked—that doesn’t mean you take the bait

Similar experience, different book: red badge of courage

Yes

Sheesh, that bag though

Please send it to her!!

No sour cabbage in “the meal” for us—but that was on regular rotation at other times

Cope’s is the best!!

A lot of PA Dutch ancestors here. Potato bread filling (not stuffing) is a treasure (and a pain in the neck since it’s hard to get the bread stale enough in the PNW)

Death by flag—missed that headline.

Many, many Americans have a very hard time understanding words. By which I mean actual words disappear or become unimportant so that various fantasies can persist unchallenged. Where race is involved, the tendency becomes overwhelming.

All of which is a long way of saying, yup. That surely happens.

I include myself in the bait-taking

So proud of my city, which often takes the bait.

But what’s not missing is killer balance with that weight

The Pips line was especially unruly this week. Too many September birthday folks wanting their free donuts.

Pretending to be serious is so much easier. (I mean, come ON. CY’s statement is so profoundly dumb that it requires a whole new metric of dumbness to account for it.)