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The jury determines guilt while the judge sets the sentence.

As someone who has lived in New England for the last 30 years, I have to tell you that that description is bullshit.

The old man who runs the dump keeps his hand of glory in a Red Sox glass. The Bruins mug belongs to his son.

As someone who grew up on that old web, I am grateful that the board game hobbyist community is still using Board Game Geek. That site is just a reskin of a pile of PHPbb forums.

My favorite dog whistle (that went over my head, because I was not the audience for it) was the Subaru “Come out and play” commercial.

If I remember it correctly, the ad was mostly footage of Subaru SUVs driving over rocks and through streams while a voice over talks about the cars’ off-road capabilities. The ads would always end with the narrator saying "Subaru invites you to come out and play.”

As a straight man, I always assumed that the commercial was about how much fun it is to drive a Subaru up a mountain. Apparently, I was missing the point. The nature footage was all a distraction to pacify the straights. The real commercial was just the sentence fragment “Subaru invites you to come out”. It was meant to say that Subaru supports queer people. It was a resounding success in promoting the ‘Subaru driving lesbian’ stereotype.

The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.

If you read the article, he does not even grow his own pumpkins anymore but buys them from other farms in the area. It is more of a pumpkin themed seasonal theme park.

A month ago, my wife saw a nice looking cookie recipe on Instagram. When she tried it herself, the cookies came out looking amazing. We had to throw them out because they tasted awful.

I crack with the blade of a knife (since I generally have one handy to chop whatever else I am including in the dish). I can get a very good crack with minimal force. Since it is such a small break, there aren’t any large pieces of shell to get into the food. I don’t cook recipes that require separating the white from the yolk, so I am not sure how often I break the membrane between the two, but from casual observation, it is almost never.

As my therapist likes to point out, no one is calling out my gross incompetence, so I can’t be doing that bad.