I've smoked crack with George Clinton.

I have one quibble with this article. Arizona was only Mexican territory because they took it from the Spanish when they declared independence from that country. The Spanish had taken what is Arizona today from the Tohono O'odham, Havasupai, Chemehuevi, Tewa, Apaches, Hopi, Maricopa, Mohave, and various other…

The embellishment on that first red dress reminds me of the creatures from The Labyrinth that were formed using puppeteers' hands.

Apologies first for getting so scientific-y there, but I have to say ever since I found that chart I am obsessed with the color of my pee. Maybe cause I've been living in the desert and hydration is soooo important here. Clear pee happens to me when I've been drinking and have had a few (too many) beers. As far as…

Urine varies in color according to the amount of water you drink. Clear pee is not good because it means you are over hydrated, where as nearly orange pee means you are severely dehydrated. Ideally, you want a light yellow pee, like the color of pale straw, because it means you are correctly hydrated.

This is what happens when you emphasize test-taking and route memorization over developing critical thinking skills and how to apply them to real-world situations. This is the legacy of No Child Left Behind. I just finished TAing this semester and most of my kids were 18 year olds, so they grew up with this ish. The…

Warning: graphic woodcut.

I wish white people would remember that they are merely Africans who have adapted to less ultraviolent light. That is all (well not entirely, there's loads of other microevolutionary changes but if you are going to go only by skin color....). There is no progress or superiority in skin color, just simple adaptation to…

Ugh I teach here. <checks class list> Good he's not in any of my classes. My kids seem to be pretty progressive on sex/gender issues though, at least acknowledging that these issues are complex.

I agree with this so much! I was in elementary school in the early to mid-90s when things seemed to have shifted from giving prizes to the winner to giving participation awards to everyone. I went to a fine arts school; every year the school held an art fair and the judges would award 1st-5th place to exceptional…

Working and living in Mexico, one of the best things is that you sometimes bond closely with some of the street dogs. In Mitla there was a dog we called Amiguita who followed us everywhere. When she went into heat, all the male dogs (there were only a few bitches in town, maybe 3 while the male dog pop. was quite…

First off, I am not diminishing Little Richard and bigging up anyone else over him. That's what you don't seem to be getting about the point I am trying to make - that rock n' roll wasn't invented in one single go by one or two people, but was a evolutionary process with contributions from a great many artists and…

In Oaxaca they eat grasshoppers or chapulines, and fried up with a little salt, chile, and ajo they are delicious and great with beer. They have them in sizes from small, medium, and large. I can't quite do the large cause the eyes freak me out, but I love munching on the small and medium ones.

Yes, in that Little Richard did not "all but invent rock n' roll", which is the OP's point and mine as well. Nor, in counterpoint to your argument, was it the sole invention of Little Richard and Ike Turner alone. My counterpoint was that many people contributed to rock n' roll, and to leave out Chuck Berry and Bo…

AND PEOPLE GONNA DIE!

"Boosting the perfectly good immune systems...."

Little Richard yes was a part of the early evolution of rock n' roll, but he was not the only one. See also Chuck Berry (very important!!!!), Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Guitar Slim, Goree Carter, Willie Johnson, Gene Vincent, and yes even Jerry Lee Lewis, to name a few.

Actually, you can look at thousands of convictions over the past decades for crimes against children and see that many sentences are less than 3 years, even when the perpetrator is male and the victim(s) female. Some sentences are a matter of months. Cases like Sandusky, with the amount of time given to him, are not…

Girls/women can find themselves in uncomfortable situations, but not in the hopes of getting a story. As a vagina-owner, I have been in some uncomfortable situations, mostly due to the fact — as this woman explained — that you go somewhere expecting things to be one thing, they turn out to be different, and due to…

Actually, considering that a lot of male rapists get less than that or are not convicted ever, I am not sure how this is reflecting a privilege of any sort, gendered or otherwise.