It may seem a little crazy to think that anyone might be worried about spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s biopic about atom bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer, as played by Cillian Murphy. Maybe a few people reading this have actually read Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy, on which it’s based. Really, it’s more about how Nolan tells the story of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project with a stacked cast of actors and some of the best craftspeople in the industry.

A few months ago, I was watching Chris Kimball of Milk Street discuss why slicing garlic is better than mincing it. I’ve been doing that for a while since it’s faster, doesn’t get the cutting board as garlicky, and the sliced garlic doesn’t burn as quickly as minced garlic does when you sauté it. According to him (and a well-regarded chef I worked with), the more you mash or manipulate garlic, the more of its bitter flavors are released.

But, Seth, that last completion cost them a shot at a field goal. He should have just run out of bounds for Harrison. Said in my best three year-old voice. By the way, I loved the fake punt in this game. Not just because it was awesome, but because it was so low risk. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, you are ahead, playing the Jets, and at midfield, so the defense is likely to stop them even if you fail because, well, the Jets.

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Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph published an interview with the famously divorced former TV-writer Graham Linehan. In the interview, Glinner justified his intensely irrational hatred of trans people by stating “there’s no trans art”. ”There’s no great trans film. There’s no great trans creators of music. All the books that come out by trans authors are universally panned because of their incoherence.” The interview itself pointed out that this wasn’t true, with the next paragraph stating the critically-acclaimed works of Torrey Peters (writer of Detransition, Baby nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Aiden Thomas (Cemetery Boys) as well as actors Laverne Cox and Elliot Page.