In quite a few of the personal accounts, Cosby’s victims recall taking only a few sips of a drink before getting disoriented or passing out. If so, he must have been loading up those beverages — some of them alcoholic — with a shitload of downers. What would have happened if one of those women quickly gulped down a…

Actually, I’ll have to agree with Kim on this one. The lack of editing capability in Twitter is really annoying.

I’ll never understand people who get into other people’s faces over assisted reproductive technology, or about any other adult decision about reproduction. Do they also get all judgmental about people who have had organ transplants? “Hey, you’ve got a dead guy’s heart now, so are you real?”

Weirdest thing was on a short flight — might have been Boston to Washington — in the late 1980s, I think. It was before smoking was completely banned on aircraft, but had already been banned on short flights. I started to smell cigarette smoke a few minutes after takeoff. Looked back over my shoulder, and a couple of…

I used to hate French toast until I stopped actually frying it. My mother used to fry it in oil, and it was one of the few dishes she made that I didn’t like. When I make it now, I just grill it in a hot cast-iron pan with a thin film of oil.

Whoa. Booze-infused fruit can be yummy, but should be handled with care proportionate to the proof of the booze. While young and stupid, I once followed two or three glasses of wine by eating fruit that had been soaked in Bacardi 151. I didn’t realize that the fruit chunks had become time-release alcohol pills until I…

I’m not much of a baker, so I usually just stock my freezer with different flavors of Talenti gelato. (Because of food allergies in the household, we also usually keep some vegan frozen desserts around as well.) I also keep a can of whipped cream and a bottle of chocolate syrup in the fridge. If I’m having company,…

People used to use them as an all-purpose downer in the seventies. I’m sure they were a common rape drug, but people also took them just to get recreationally wasted.

What an inconsiderate turd. They should feed him to a giant weta!

Many people don’t realize this, but radish greens are also edible. Mr. Sububi and I like them in salads.

Hmmm. I got married several weeks before my 32nd birthday. Mr. Sububi, however, had turned 32 several weeks before the wedding. So I think I’ll refrain from telling him this!

Maybe I’ve become improbably squeamish with age, but a major reason why I’m not keen to have pets is that I don’t think I could take those damn buttholes being both constantly visible and in frequent contact with random surfaces.

I call shenanigans. With the exceptions of a few obscure tropical species, wasps don’t leave their stings stuck in your skin the way honey bees do. They pull them right back out, and if they’re still in a stinging mood, they can stick you again.

I moved to an area that’s just lousy with Sonics, and have never been tempted to go there. I’m one of those cranks who hates getting food or drinks at anything resembling a drive-through window. I’d rather stand in line for 15 minutes at a fast food place than use the drive-in, which usually breaks even time-wise…

Unless it was northern CT, in which case it would be a laid-off mall clerk who was pissed off that Friendly’s didn’t serve kielbasa or ziti, and was also murderously fed up with Cox Communications user support.

I second. I grew up in Friendly’s country, and what you want to do is stick to the ice cream. You can get mediocre luncheonette food there, but it’s not their strong point. The ice cream is the thing.

I love the taste and smell of coconut, but when I cook with coconut oil, I can never smell or taste it in the finished product.

Wait, didn’t this actually happen to the writer Anne Lamott and her best friend about 25 years ago?

Fire ants rampant on a field of kudzu.

This brings back memories of my wild youth. You insert a diaphragm after putting spermicide into the concave side, and then leave it in for several hours after sex. It holds a barrier layer of spermicide against the cervix until any remaining sperm are inviable. (If you have sex again during that time window, you…