Which moves governmental power down to the level of the bureaucrats— career civil servants will know more about how the government works than the newly elected officials.

So you vote in favor of a more powerful bureaucracy.

Re: “There’s nothing special about any of the steps, the researchers say;”

A lot of sauces have wheat in them (flour for thickening, for example). Apparently some soy sauces have wheat in them.

I don’t really believe that most consumer measuring cups are accurate enough to care which one I use.  Comparing a single dry measuring cup to a single liquid measuring cup (apparently in only one direction) doesn’t tell us much.

I think “bullshit goal” implies that it isn’t some sort of scientifically calculated goal.  It’s just a made up number.

I doubt that my kid is a shoe-tying prodigy but this worked at age 6.

I don’t get why people have trouble with this. Teaching kids of an appropriate age to tie shoes is a matter of 10 minutes.

According to: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rabies

The third baseman touches the base putting out the runner going from second to third.  The third baseman then tags the runner who started on third for the second out.  He then throws the ball to second base to put out the runner going from first to second.  Everything else is extraneous.

As far as I can tell the difference between a BA and a BS is the number of math classes you have to take.

Some people claim that you should not split the infinitive and therefore “not to have” is better than “to not have”.

Read the linked Washington Post article.

To Everyone who thinks this can never happen to them:

My rearview mirror looks out the rear window, not at the back seat.  I can’t see my pre-teen in the mirror, let alone a car seat.

Our local paper has a list of arrests for the week, but I think that’s only for the city police, not county or state.

Redistricting won’t happen until after the 2020 census so it won’t have any effect until the 2022 election.

In addition to that, districts won’t be redrawn until after the 2020 census, so it will have no effect on the 2020 election.

When I see someone using a check, they don’t get carded, but the check gets scanned and the debit happens immediately based on the account and routing number on the check.  They don’t even have to fill out the check.

It’s been a while (late 80s) since I worked at McDs but when I was there the scrambled eggs were also fresh, we cracked and beat them in batches, but they weren’t frozen liquid eggs.