There’s not a lot he can do about that, save for executive orders in some circumstances. The Senate is so fucked up right now that they’ll screw over the entire country before they’ll cooperate with the President, and there are some functions of government that just won’t proceed without some level of cooperation.

There’s a big difference between rejecting a nominee and refusing to even consider a nominee. The Senate can vote against (and even filibuster) a SCOTUS nomination, and both parties have in the past blocked nominations for ideological reasons. But the Republicans are now (a) refusing en masse to even discuss the…

Wow, that sounds like something out of Whiplash.

So maybe somebody was just celebrating Taylor Swift winning a Grammy and things got a little out of hand.

The Wikipedia article on BMI cites some of the earliest peer-reviewed publications, and here’s a note about it from a researcher in the 1970s: “BMI was explicitly cited by Keys as appropriate for population studies and inappropriate for individual evaluation.”

A relative of mine really hung in there with Nicholas Sparks until she got to the one where the dog died. Then she finally gave up on reading his novels in favor of something more cheerful.

Bravo for getting kids started with cooking. It’s a great way to become more adventurous about food, and also encourages both healthful eating and an understanding of household budgeting later in life. I didn’t really learn to cook until I was older, so I didn’t make meals for the family as a kid. But I did watch my…

I’m glad that NSF and NASA are responding, but unless these regulations are enforced and offenders start getting fired, their “stern reminders” won’t be effective.

I’m sure they’ll look great even after kids spill ketchup, chocolate milk, and finger paint all over them.

Trump talks like a belligerent drunk. But he apparently doesn’t drink, and I don’t know whether that makes him more or less scary.

I remember eating one or two of those things back in the day, and never having the desire to do so again. I don’t remember exactly how the calories broke down, but the main reason the meals were under 300 calories is that the portions were minuscule. It was pretty much impossible to eat one without still being hungry…

I don’t get the anti-sriracha hate either. It’s just a condiment. Some people like it, some don’t. Good on some dishes, not so much on others. Maybe it’s just because people got tired of arguing over mayonnaise.

I’ve got three decades of age on you, and I was so concerned about this that I had my doctor order a measles antibody titer as part of my most recent routine blood test. Fortunately, I seem to be fine in that department. Either the none-too-effective first-generation measles vaccine I was given in 1963 was very…

I’d like to see one with garlic-roasted Brussels sprouts and a nice wedge of Gorgonzola. The milkshake, of course, would have to be chocolate.

That sure as hell qualifies as sexual harassment. Not to mention health misinformation, since there are other causes of bladder infections besides 1, 2, and 3.

It seems like we need to do a better job of reminding people that the dangers of binge drinking aren’t limited to car crashes and sexual assaults. It’s not like we can stop college students from getting themselves hammered, but people really need to be aware that excessive drinking can cause both lethal overdoses and…

Both victims were killed because a man considered his ex-girlfriend his property, and when she had a new man in her life, the ex considered him to have stolen his property. In a homicidal and suicidal rage, the ex destroyed both of them and himself.

They’re just standing up for the rights of obtuse white people to make everything all about themselves.

Sometimes our human capacity for self-delusion scares the living shit out of me. And few things facilitate it as openly and intensely as “facilitated communication”.

Yup. Mr. Sububi once did some work with a local health department, and one of their cases was a norovirus outbreak that was traced to a rather nice restaurant. (Short version: It probably happened because some staff members had handled bread rolls without gloves, and the management agreed to crack down on this…