The percentages of people supporting stricter gun laws suggest that many of those people are also gun owners. We’re well aware than many gun owners aren’t NRA loons.

And you never hear a single one of them support something actually useful. Like, say, funding to equip every classroom in the nation with a sturdy door that can be locked from the inside while the door is closed. Eight years since Virginia Tech, and there’s still classrooms that can barricaded only with someone’s body…

I have seen a baby raccoon frolicking with a kitten (definitely frolicking; it had been orphaned, rescued, and raised with the kitten). I feel I have seen the cutest thing in the world.

Ever since I found out that there were people who seem to think this ok, on the occasions that I feel moved to compliment a black person on his or her hair, I make sure my hands are either out of sight or visibly occupied, so that it doesn’t so much as look like I might consider putting my hands in their hair.

And it’s not mere lying...it’s actively “bearing false witness”, which is one of the sins forbidden in the Ten Commandments, which they are ever so fond of trying to have prominently displayed in government buildings.

My labmates and I had a pet name for our advisor when I was in grad school, but we certainly never used it to her face.

One coworker filed a complaint, in which she also complained about her hijab.

The detail that makes the situation extremely clear to me is that the crewmate who complained that she wasn’t serving alchohol also complained that she was wearing a hijab. To me, that makes it sound less like she was inconveniencing her crewmates (all the rest of whom were fine with her taking a larger share of other…

If only I could take credit for having done it. But no, it was those Ultra Low Temperature Physics grad students in the building across the street. Me, I was pulling the wings off flies. Professionally. (I’d etherized them to death first).

Listen, everyone knows that nothing short of nuclear weapons will kill those rancid little fuckers, even chopping their disgusting heads off.

“plans for a smaller, 4-inch iPhone in a nostalgic nod back to the much missed iPhone 4 form factor”

Yes, yes it is.

Robin Williams did not owe anyone continuing to live with his depression. He even less owed his fans continuing to live with rapid onset frontotemporal lobe dementia.

My Barbies used to ride in the beds of my brothers’ Tonkas.

So I don’t want to downplay what this woman did, but my understanding has always been that more extensive animal testing would never have demonstrated the harmful effects of thalidomide. Every other species we’ve tested it on, including other primates, can tolerate incredibly high doses relative to the miniscule dose…

They always say they’re “eating paleo”, but they never have a plate of bugs and tubers.

What I really want is soda made with half the sugar, but all the other flavorings. No artificial sweeteners at all, just less sweet and sticky.

The only artificial sweetener that tasted sweet to me was the long-banned cyclamate, ironically classed as the the least-sweet of artificial sweeteners. To me, all the others taste somewhere in the area of bitter-to-other chemical, but definitely not sweet. I wonder if there’s any link between being a…

And how is that guy out of the greys, when I, with my years of responsible commenting history, am not?

It’s almost like she has multiple emotions or something.