Via faithful commentor Max: Spring is here! The frozen hellscape of four weeks ago is no more. So things are starting to grow. The little purple flowers that come up with the weeds are back! [Editor’s note: I mislabeled them ‘squill’ but of course those are wild violets] And the thing I am most happy …
Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread
@jmartNYT @maggieNYT My proposal: Fiorina, Graham, and Bolton appear in a balcony over the debates a la Statler and Waldorf. — Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) April 18, 2015 … And then Trump will insist on his own box, decorated “very tastefully” with lots of cheap gilding, faux leather, and his reality-show camera crew. The Paulistas will …
Open Thread: #FITN (Typical NH Truthiness)
From a Masshole perspective, “Live Free or Die Trying” New Hampshire’s main industry is mooching. When its residents are not leaching off the gubmint-tainted benefits of its neighbors (MA’s high-tech industry, hospitals & colleges; VT’s scenic treasures & locavore innovations) they’re extracting exorbitant tolls from outsiders forced or deluded enough to pass through the Granite …
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Food-Related Read: “Private Eyes in the Grocery Aisles”
No Recipe Exchange this week, so I’ll share a (basically reassuring) NYTimes article on the current standards for the food we buy: … Civilian shoppers see food when they go to the market. Mr. Samadpour, the chief executive of IEH Laboratories (short for Institute for Environmental Health), sees mystery, if not downright fraud. On this …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: There Will Be Debates
The hashtag for this weekend’s NH GOP presidential forum is #FITN, which sounds a bit like HP Lovecraft sneezing. — daveweigel (@daveweigel) April 17, 2015 Don’t worry, debate fans — the Democrats will be out on stage, per Bloomberg Politics: … Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who doubles as chair of the Democratic National …
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Domesticating Each Other, with Love
The NYTimes “Well” blog reports on “The Look of Love“: … Japanese researchers found that dogs who trained a long gaze on their owners had elevated levels of oxytocin, a hormone produced in the brain that is associated with nurturing and attachment, similar to the feel-good feedback that bolsters bonding between parent and child. After …
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Late Night Long Read: Trevor Noah & “Necessarily the News”
I always find Wesley Morris’ work interesting, even when I don’t agree with his conclusions. At Grantland, he discusses aspects of the Daily Show kerfuffle beyond the simplistic ‘four legs good, two legs bad’ reductionism that #HotTakesMedia encourages: … As a soft product launch, the post-Stewart Daily Show was already a disaster. Within 24 hours …
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