Saturday, June 23, 2018

@19:35, 6/22/18

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1
Food

The Secret to Perfect Popcorn Is Already in Your Cupboard

Beyond butter and salt, oil — and lots of it — makes for the most impeccably crunchy kernels.

I can do that.

2
Food

Anthony Bourdain Toxicology Report: No Narcotics in His System

The chef, author and television correspondent was found dead in a French hotel room last month. His death shook fans and colleagues across the world.

The decision was his.

3
World

He Left Work for 3 Minutes Before His Lunch Break. Now His Pay Is Docked.

A waterworks employee in Kobe, Japan, was fined and reprimanded after his bosses found he had been slipping out to order a bento box before his official lunch break.

Order tomorrow's lunch today.

4
Well

Can a Bar of Soap Transmit Infection?

And would a jar of liquid soap be a better bet than bar soap?

no!

5
Watching

11 Great Titles Expiring From Netflix in July

Every month, as various licenses expire, streaming services lose movies and TV series from their catalogs.

There are other services.

6
Books

Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot

Joseph O’Neill’s story collection, “Good Trouble,” features characters unlikely to be on the receiving end of a warmhearted learning experience.

Enjoy.

7
Arts

Kimmel Can’t Figure Out Melania Trump’s ‘I Really Don’t Care’ Jacket

Jimmy Kimmel wondered, “Is the president now tweeting onto his wife’s clothes?”

It is funnier that way.

8
Times Insider

She Wanted You to See a Family, Not Just a Pregnant Man

The photographer Jackie Molloy followed Tanner and David for a year and a half, during which time she took some 20,000 pictures.

I have some learning to do.
People will need to cut me some slack.

9
U.S.

Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border

Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, has been an under-the-radar presence in Washington. Then a video of his visit to a former Walmart in Texas went viral.

Senator Jeff Merkley has made the situation clear.

10
Arts

Can an Artist Shift the Gun Debate?

At the Guggenheim, Shaun Leonardo encouraged those on all sides of the gun control issue to find common ground with their opponents, by connecting physically.

As in the world outside, victory conditions are absent.

the gun debate will not shift from this.

Failed art is not bad art.





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1
Food

Anthony Bourdain Toxicology Report: No Narcotics in His System


"Solution Unsatisfactory"

2
Food

The Secret to Perfect Popcorn Is Already in Your Cupboard


Yes

3
World

He Left Work for 3 Minutes Before His Lunch Break. Now His Pay Is Docked.


Education is expensive.

4
Watching

11 Great Titles Expiring From Netflix in July

Every month, as various licenses expire, streaming services lose movies and TV series from their catalogs.

There are other streaming services.

5
Well

Can a Bar of Soap Transmit Infection?

And would a jar of liquid soap be a better bet than bar soap?

No

6
Books

Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot

Joseph O’Neill’s story collection, “Good Trouble,” features characters unlikely to be on the receiving end of a warmhearted learning experience.

Enjoy

7
Obituaries

Rebecca Parris, Jazz Singer, Is Dead at 66

In a four-decade career, Ms. Parris, hailed as Boston’s first lady of jazz, recorded 10 albums and performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Gary Burton.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0cAfu1ti4ycf2xoNs6VSyi5-P4BEQ6pQ

8
Opinion

The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry

How much would you pay to reinvent your life?

I have noticed the prevalence of fraud and self deception.

I do not want to be alone among strangers again.
I gather acquaintances I should not have.

9
Arts

ABC Pulls Episode of ‘The Proposal’ After Sexual Assault Accusation

A contestant on the new reality dating series is accused of aiding the sexual assault of a woman in Milwaukee last fall.

ABC should know better.

10
Opinion

Low-Skill Jobs for Men

A Pennsylvania reader writes that immigration raids have left jobs going unfilled.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/business/men-unemployment-jobs.html

Established people don't want to live six to a room.
Immigrants will do so.

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