Yeah. Just because a lot of people think something doesn’t make it true. A lot of people believe Trump is smart, and that is a demonstrable falsehood.

I make a point of taking pictures of the flying penii I see in museums.  I have quite a collection at this point, because they were everywhere.

I have realized that the world can be divided into two sets of people, people who value people and people who value money.  She values money.  She would sell every last one of her principles and morals if it meant more money.  That’s how she can support Republican policies - because they ensure that she gets more…

Since we had a band, I had the ability to nix my husband’s obsession with Celine Dion, though I did sing one of her less grating songs for him. But what can I say, her music inspired him to learn English, without which I’d never have been able to talk to him in the first place. Good things can come from strange places.

And I thought I was bad at basketball.

I would say, hey Iowans, maybe you should actually vote for people who won’t put in place these terrible laws?  But then I remember gerrymandering and crap and realize that this is probably the minority having engineered this exact outcome.  But still - Iowans who are complaining but not voting in your local…

Please track the hazardous materials you use in your house if you have children. I did a research project for a client who sells a fairly innocuous common household good and I was shocked at how many of the calls to Poison Control were because someone in the house was completely irresponsible.  Putting some of the…

It came from the Apopo website, which trains them for landmines and TB detection.  Perhaps not the most unbiased source, to be honest.  I hadn’t really thought it about it.

I’m 100% okay with not getting any version of a Bond movie ever again.  Gender-swapped or not.

African pouched rats have been trained to do the same thing at as high or higher a success rate, so, yeah?

Our golden retriever would get lost if she went around a corner. We lost her for almost a week until we found out that she had moved into a doghouse two streets down after not being able to find her way home. I’m talking maybe a 5 minute walk away. She was lovely and sweet but dumb as anything. And our neighbors’ dog…

When I lived in American Samoa, there was a serious lack of entertainment, so one of our big things was evening gecko fights. They were really territorial and the biggest ones got the spots closest to the lights, with the smaller ones trying to sneak over and inevitably getting caught and beaten up. The fights were…

I’m just going to echo - the new Ducktales is so good.  Like, so so so so good.  The only I haven’t loved is the Don Carnage doesn’t look enough like a fox (too rounded of a snout.)  But oh my goodness is that a great show.

If you are interested in medical history, may I recommend the book Quackery which is pretty funny and really fascinating about some of the things we went through before we had modern medicine.  They cover early surgery and it is really terrifying.

Follow up question to that, though - if it’s listed as being a “15% gratuity” versus “15% service charge” or “$5 service charge”, is there a way to tell if it is a built-in tip based on how it’s worded?  I would think a gratuity would be a tip, but a service charge wouldn’t be.  

I’d argue that none of the people involved had to say anything they said or do the things they did. If the outcome of sexually assaulting people and saying racist things online is that everyone says “well, that was a bad thing to say, but if there are consequences to saying this shitty thing or sexually assaulting…

I’m going to give you the advice I gave my friend who is recovering from an eating disorder “you only have to be attractive to the person you want to be attractive to. And it they don’t find you attractive, they aren’t worth you, so find someone else.” This idea that you have to fit into a narrow box in order to be…

Thank you!  I have skin sensitization to coconut oil and every time I go somewhere touting “all natural skin care” I have to ask because so many of the products contain coconut oil.  I’m also sensitized to tea tree oil.  Natural doesn’t mean harmless.

Side note - the woman who won the primary to run as a democrat for Elizabeth Esty’s seat in Connecticut is a black woman from inner city Waterbury (Jahana Hayes), and she is amazing. I can’t vote for her (wrong district) but I’m just saying, as much as it’s unfortunate that some democratic politicians ended up on the…

I am a small business owner who pays all of my employees well above the minimum wage (we’re in CT.) Here’s the thing. The companies that claim that they can’t pay a higher wage, or pay for insurance, could totally do that if the person who owns the company is willing to take home less. There are no companies where the…