Dad, I'm hungry!

Right, what do I cook for tea?

Errr, McCain chips. These will be good.

You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer?

Just say, Alexa, open McCain, and Alexa will help you.

What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me?

Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them and give you ideas for tea.

Okay. Alexa, open McCain.

Well done, Dad. Such a tech wizard.

Chip, chip, hooray.

Crispy air fryer perfection with McCain.

Slate's gymnual says the first thing you gotta know about tonight's democratic presidential debate

is that it is Joe Biden's to lose. Still.

You're starting to see a lot of the campaigns who thought he would be gone by now

just because of, you know, his history of shall we say verbal flubs, you know, catching up to him.

But it really hasn't happened. And I think they're starting to be confused about what exactly can be done about that.

And the answer might very well be nothing.

Since Biden entered the race this spring, the other candidates have surged and plummeted in the polls.

But the whole time they have been orbiting Biden.

He is consistently the top choice of about 30% of democratic voters.

So in the 10 qualifying candidates walk on the stage and he's tonight.

The real question is whether any of them are going to start generating their own gravitational pull.

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