This doesn’t surprise me. Everything that goes into a pressure cooker comes out with much more flavor. Everything that goes into a slow cooker comes out tasting like nothing.

That’s really sad. Stonewall was a historic event, and it really deserves a good film that will do it justice.

I’ve loved broccoli since childhood. Wasn’t until I was well into my fifties that I learned that some people, especially in childhood, perceive its taste as bitter. I thought this was weird, until I realized that I perceive the taste of chocolate cake as bitter. Not cocoa-bitter, which can be very pleasant for me, but…

I’m imagining one of these jerks asking a woman “Are you a cat lady?” and her asking him “Are you my alternative?”* And I have to say that cats have never sounded so good.

“Things our mothers and sisters had to hear” isn’t all that far from some white guy who thinks he can drop N-bombs because “I have black friends”.

Exactly. My husband and I have made some decisions knowing that they would decrease our income or our net worth. Some we were happy with, some we weren’t, some we’re still figuring out. We’re not rich and we never will be. But we don’t have kids or a mortgage (both by choice), so our options are different from those…

No, she didn’t say that other people should quit their jobs if they hated them. She never said that it was good to go into debt. It’s a story about her personal experience, not career advice for other people.

Her ex-boyfriend was invited to the Republican National Convention as a reward for getting her pregnant — an act that required much less brainpower than building a clock.

Congrats and best wishes, Mark and Allen!

May have to try this! I rarely eat scrambled eggs, mostly because I can’t stand even the tiniest browned or crisp area on them. This method looks like a win!

Whoa, tampon bombs! I knew I shouldn’t have thrown out my extras after menopause. Who knew they were good for something else?

Excellent article, Eric!

The one bad experience I had in that department was in college, though I don’t remember whether the doctor was a GYN or an internist. Throughout all the years that I was releasing eggs, I had what I sometimes called “thermonuclear Mittelschmerz”. My egg follicles didn’t just ovulate — they exploded. It always hurt…

My GYN used to do my well-woman exam, including breast exam, when I was younger. My family practice doctor does it now. I haven’t seen a GYN since my uterus and ovaries were removed in 2003.

I used to be a member of a church, and almost every Sunday, some of us would go out to lunch together after the service. There were quite a few friendly, local, casual restaurants within a mile or two of the church, and we sort of rotated among them. We were always nice to our servers and tipped them properly…

This has always been my experience, so I wondered if other people also experience it: Nothing really tastes the same to me twice, even if it’s the exact same substance, the exact same recipe, or even taken from the exact same container. Not wine, not coffee, not ice cream, not even toothpaste. In the same ballpark:…

Almost correct. Corporations in a competitive market have THEIR best interests in mind. Because they want to keep you as a customer and make a profit, it’s often in their best interest to ignore or hide quality and safety issues. If you as the consumer don’t know that the issues are there, you don’t have enough…

And extra points for the Home Movies GIF!

I’d go with this order, from best to worst. (I’ve always lived in temperate North America, though, so YMMV.!

Now I’m craving bi bim bap in a hot stone bowl!