All commercial transportation companies “pay money to help their competitors” in the form of regulations, fees, and taxes. It’s not insane just because you don’t know how it works because you’ve never had reason to think about it before.

Twitter on everyone, really.

The common orthodoxy is that they cannot be removed, but they can, in fact, be impeached by the Senate, and former Chief Justice William Rehnquist said they could be removed without impeachment under extraordinary circumstances.

My hands definitely preclude that, as I’m struggling with pen and fork. A soldering iron would be an ugly accident waiting to happen. And the amount you save building it yourself isn’t much less than the value of the time spent on it, unfortunately.

That is a great fucking headline.

I’m not talking about the narrative, I’m talking about the real, extraordinary, amazing, mind-boggling story of this woman’s life. Seriously, stealing hundreds of thousands of welfare dollars isn’t even in the top five of insane things she did.

Sigh, I started captioning because I couldn’t make a living copy editing any more, so I feel your mental pain too.

I did leave open the possibility that he was an inconsiderate douche, no? I was just elaborating on why some people up thread said she sounded toxic.

We’ve been breeding produce for appearance and uniformity and durability to aid in mechanical picking, shipping, and transport for so long that not only has the flavor deteriorated, so has the nutrient content. Some researchers think the obesity epidemic is due to our microbiomes adjusting to food that has more…

Reply to me again in a couple months if it works and you remember!

People who don’t bake and don’t realize that the peel can turn brown and gross while the bananas themselves are just fine.

“The federal government does not tax wealth; it taxes income.”

Just on the blogs formerly known as Gawker Media, really. I bailed on Jez after getting demoted to the greys for rewriting the science and health articles in the comments one too many times, though. ; )

Google “welfare queen, Slate” and you will find an amazing piece of historical reporting on the woman Reagan was talking about. Welfare fraud was the least of her crimes, it was INSANE.

Sigh. Any time any female musician is involved with a male musician, there’s always people who say he wrote her songs for her, especially if he is more famous. People forget that when they first met, she was actually more well known and critically acclaimed. The British music press saw him as Courtney Love’s…

My doctor had me eliminate nightshades like potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant from my diet, and recommended consuming a lot of turmeric via a Laird Hamilton superfood coffee creamer thing that I can’t buy with food stamps, so I just made my own version of it. My situation is too severe to be helped much by such things…

My point is not that he doesn’t have to pay attention to her because he paid for everything, or that paying for everything grants him license to be an inconsiderate douche.

He and his husband aren’t just ultra-conservatives, they’re evangelicals. His husband went to Liberty University.

Just the original version of this on io9's version of this story, as it’s basically just the conversation I had with my roommate in the kitchen the day after we saw Black Panther. This one’s a wee bit better though, so I’d share this one. Thank you for the lovely compliment.