In Russia, sandwich cook you! I don’t even know what to make of this image: a Russian man hotwiring a … sandwich.
“Every day for six years, I brushed my teeth, I got in my car, and I looked for pickles,” Speaking of weird stories involving food, here’s one out of my former hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri. A random pickle jar on the side of the highway that’s been in the same location for years.
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This Safeway needs a name. If you’re not a denizen of The Swamp™, you probably don’t know that Washington’s Safeway grocery stores often have nicknames. Erick Erickson met with a member of Congress at one nameless Safeway to do some shopping, and record the representative’s thoughts on President Trump.
If you read the whole thing, you’ll see that it’s…spicy. So, what do we call this Safeway? A friend suggested the “Sh*t Talk Safeway” while another suggested “Sockpuppet Safeway.” Will Erick Erickson reveal which Safeway it was?
The British Virgin Islands Marlins? No, the Miami Marlins aren’t moving to the islands, but they are claiming that’s where their corporate citizenship lies… to avoid a court appearance.
Sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg? That’s what the ever-talented Matthew Walther is expressing over at The Week as the tech billionaire is grilled by members of Congress:
Of course she doesn’t. Very few of the more than one billion Facebook users have even the remotest sense of what is actually involved in the creation and maintenance of even a very simple website, much less an acute appreciation of what happens to the information that we share with a thousand different entities every time we so much as search for a book on Amazon or Google “King Crimson discography ranked.” Many of us are becoming slightly more aware of just how powerful the tools employed to harvest our whims and queries have become in recent years; everyone has his favorite story of searching for or even having a conversation about a product only to find his inbox inundated with related 15 percent off solicitations.
I feel for the guy, too. Imagine having elected officials ask you about Diamond & Silk. And not as some sort of joke.
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