I don’t think a lot of younger Bernie supporters really appreciate what the crime/crack situation was in the late 80s and early 90s. Unintended consequences and all that, but the world was very different, and black people were the biggest victims of that crime spike.

Here’s what she wore last time she won

She is a for real rock star, especially given that Lauren Bacall was the presenter

I would assume that ALL meals on an El Al flight are kosher.

Not exactly. If I have a trait to become infertile at a certain age, then other members of my kin group might also have that trait. If the trait causes more of my kin group to survive long enough to have their own offspring, then we outcompete the other members of the population that don’t have the trait.

But you get variability in a population via random mutation.

But men don’t have an off switch on their reproductive ability while they are still healthy adults, like women do. I’m post menopausal in my late forties, which is well short of being doddering and elderly. I’m going to spend the afternoon collecting soils samples with a hammer drill. I could certainly support…

As a post-menopausal woman who does not have any offspring, I could be seen as an evolutionary dead end. But I know that my success will affect the future success of my brother’s offspring. As a scientist, I understand the question they are trying to answer, and I’m always interested in the result. Menopause is weird,…

yep — I was just trying to point out that you have a reproductive impact even after you are reproducing.

But living past menopause does impact the survival of other people in your kin group, to the extent that you continue to eat food that could go to your offspring.

They didn’t study males because males continue to be reproductively viable, at some level, until the day they kick it, and women do not. From an evolutionary biology sense, there is a question there to answer. It doesn’t denigrate women — it actually implies that there is some very important function that supercedes…

Is there something wrong with her teeth? Why is everything liquid?

She doesn’t even seem to eat the lawn clippings. She would make an herbal infused shrub elixir of wild dandelion greens, maybe. But no eating.

**whoosh**

If we’re going to be technical, the Dakotas are in the Great Plains.

That happens sometimes with my cat.

The average temperature in December 1882-1887 in Toronto was 26.1F (-3.3C). God, I love the internet.

If your hair is white, there is no such thing as a temporary tint (sorry — white by 25, learned the hard way).

I’m old enough that we just got the PLO and the IRA as options.

Anybody who’s ever been in a women’s restroom knows that we’re all in stalls! You can’t tell what anybody is doing in any of them. Unless someone asks you to pass them some toilet paper so they can wipe their Y chromosome, you DON’T KNOW what they’re packing.