Narcissists abhor other people’s tragedies because it steals their limelight. Cases in point: pregnant army widows and Puerto Rico.

Soon you’ll be able to add contraception to this list!

Introverted /= shy. Two different things. Not worth watching a video that gets this fundamental fact wrong.

Doesn’t anyone care about the planet? Unless you’re in a tearing rush, how big an impact on your life is it to spend 5-10 minutes longer on a half-hour trip, and help to reduce emissions, reduce gridlock, and reduce wear and tear on a vehicle? If everyone has to have their own car — often a full size sedan, with…

I will wait to check it out from my public library. Oh, and the article heading is click bait. Lifehacker can do better than this.

Hetero sodomy is probably still illegal in many places. I don’t see it being enforced, though. Sounds like Moore is a typical conservative, believing in small government except when it comes to bedroom conduct and uteri.

Based on dog breed intelligence rankings, Beagles score pretty low, meaning you generally have to repeat a command many more times before they get it, compared to Border collies, most hunting dogs (Labs and Goldens score very high), and Poodles. Dumb isn’t necessarily bad, though — bulldogs are also not so bright but…

They are like a persistent intestinal parasite you picked up when you got a car loan, mortgage or credit card . . .

I have a food dehydrator, spend a lot of time on backcountry expeditions to remote places where I have to carry everything I bring on my own back (plus pay by the pound to have it flown in), and I grow lots of berries, so I make fruit leather every summer. I find that sugar makes the leather brittle, though, so…

Why is Alaska depicted as being smaller than Puerto Rico? Yeah, there isn’t much room to squeeze it in, but PR is huuuuge.

NYT says the PINs are generated based on the date and time when you contact them to start the freeze. Pretty easy to guess, given when the news broke. And I’m not paying $10 to a company that’s already made millions by collecting data about me without my permission. At this point, I have zero trust in Equifax. I…

Coupla states missing, including my own. (As usual — it’s remarkable how many of these kinds of map exercises just don’t bother with Alaska and Hawaii. Is everyone else really OK with this?) There are no roads connecting much of my state to the rest of the world, so you have to fly to Anchorage for an abortion if you…

1) I’m a boomer, not a Millennial.

Here at 61 N, the rate of change in daylight and temperature is steep around the equinoxes. There was fresh snow down to 3000' last night, the birches are turning yellow, and I will soon start using my 10K lux light box for 30-45 mins each morning, soon after I get up. OTOH, it will be a relief not to have to keep up…

Not sure I have much love to spare for the guy who referred to “my African-American,” but maybe I need to try harder?

“Other.” and “He’s a demented narcissist and you know it.”

Water does not circle the drain in one direction in the northern hemisphere and the opposite direction on the other side of the equator. If the Coriolis Effect were that strong, we would have a hard time walking or driving in a straight line.

One of the first things I did when I got my last car was to open the hood and unplug the power supply to the AC compressor. In most cars, this compressor runs any time you have the controls set to “defrost,” even when dew points are low enough that no AC is needed. On a 2 litre, 4-cyl. car, that’s a lot of drag on…

Pressure cook for a few minutes. Works like an autoclave. Or just toss it and open a new one.

Get a dog. Or two. Big dogs, “sporting” or “working” breeds.