It's not about sex at all. It's a flimsy pretext to attack and defund public schools, which has been a decades-long project on the part of Republicans. They want private school for their kids and child labor for yours.

And Professor von Nostrand from the Clinic signed off on the environmental impact!

And Pearl Jam was arguably as big as Taylor Swift at the time, or close to it. They had a ton of clout, they basically ran their career aground trying to fight Ticketmaster, and they lost.

Although I do wonder if they had had more success if other big bands of the era had stood by them and also boycotted.

Sam AM is a nice, upscale brunch place downtown. Cafe Alyce is a nice, upscale brunch place near McGinley Square.

And Larsen's Diner doesn't look like much from the outside (it's a dingy old building wedged in between two dollar stores on Communipaw), but the food is terrific. Maybe not a first date spot, but a place to go to often if that first date pans out...

There are several answers here that are correct, but they used a different method from any of them when the built the Brooklyn Bridge. They built a wooden "room" larger than the bridge supports, and submerged it, and essentially just made two big square holes in the river to work in.

Jack's Service on Summit Ave. in the heights is terrific. Reasonably priced, and honest, to the point where they once talked me out of an expesive repair!

When I read The Martian, for whatever reason I pictured Donald Glover as Mark Watley (the nerdy, sarcastic stranded astronaut). And then they cast him in the movie... in a small supporting role.

In fairness, the book even says he looks like Clint.

The funny thing is, I didn't use the word sellout. It's 100% him being defensive.

Eponymous means self-titled. So you can talk about The Smiths' eponymous first album, or their second album, Meat Is Murder.

Every part of Paul Fireman's astroturf campaign to privatize the park is disgusting, but this tactic he keeps using — trying to pretend turning public land over to developers, and handing public land over to a country club with a $400,000 entry fee is somehow a racial justice issue.

He's somehow persuaded a few people at the NAACP to spout his propaganda. He set up a phony "protest" in the park last year, so Friends of LSP organized a counterprotest. The LSP group drew people from all walks of life, from every community in JC. The astrotruf protest was 100% Black, apart from the white guy telling everyone where to stand and what to chant. It's what's known in the business as "buying optics." It's absolutely shameless, but there's no low to which Fireman won't stoop.

Imagine directing that kind of language at a retired kindergarten teacher who's donated countless hours of his time to protect the park, and in defense of a billionaire who owns a country club.

That was in response to an earlier comment where I suggested the Chronicle was launched solely to push Fireman's propaganda. Then again, he's been at this for ten years, so I might not be wrong.

"Should we privatize the park?"

"Nevermore!"

This was an exchange I just had online with whoever runs the "Hudson County Chronicles", a "news" outlet that largely exists to spout pro-Fireman propaganda in favor of turning Liberty State Park over to developers. And out of the blue, whoevers' behind the account made this comment about Sam Pesin (who no one had mentioned) which is way, way over the line.

Brian Stack does frequent meet-and-greet events with constituents. Although the dates listed on his web site stop in February. But whenever he announces more, we should post here.

And that's only the money he's pouring into Liberty State Park For Paul. He's also almost certainly the one funding Jersey City Chronicles, a fake media outlet that pushes Pave the Park propaganda. And who knows how many other arms his astroturf campaign has going.

All the while using the polution as justification for turning the land over to developers!

Of course not! I'm sure if we show up there we'll just happen upon some children who happen to be hanging out in a brewery at 10pm on a school night, just like Fireman did!

That might be the worst part of it — at least other people who sold their souls to Fireman got paid for it. But don't worry, the optics of having a bunch of kids in your brewery at 9:30 on a school night filming propaganda for a cartoonishly evil developer who wants to bulldoze a nature preserve to expand his country club isn't going to come back to bite you on the ass at any point.

I agree the first two seasons were a huge waste of Patrick Stewart's talents. But they really righted the ship with the third and he has some terrific acting moments. (And Frakes really shines as both an actor and director)

I think it's fair to say the more recent shows have a higher bar to clear in the Golden Age of Television than the 90s-era shows did when they were essentially the only sci-fi on TV apart from X-Files.

Not everyone sees that as a bad thing!

The first two seasons of Picard are a hot mess, but the third season has been terrific. I went in expecting a bunch of empty fan service, but they really delve into the TNG characters and how they've changed over time, and interrogate their relationship to Picard. And that's all balanced with some great action and mystery.

They were also hoping for an influx of new viewers (I forget what the cause for optimism was), and they wanted to catch people up on the series. And a clip show was the only way to do that in the pre-streaming era! (I think this was just barely in the VCR era, but you had to be a pretty hardcore fan to tape every episode)