Pima cotton isn’t genetically engineered beyond the old fashioned process of cultivation. The name Supima is trademarked, but pima is not, and as such, anybody who grows it doesn’t need to pay ConAg-Santo-dyne to plant it or to name it in their clothing tags. It’s why some shirt tags say ‘Supima’, some say ‘pima’, and…

That’s a mom bag - five years later she will still find things with tea on them when she reaches into her bag to find a screwdriver, a juice box, and three pieces of string.

I get the “Hello!” medley with “Turkey In the Straw” that often because I live a block from the park. I’m okay with it. It does have to be finished at sundown, which is important. I’m hungry and the highs are still in the 90's here. See y’all after I step outside.

I wonder if 1300 complaints actually represent 1300 people?

I think it’s good for children to have places where they read about or see alarming subjects in order to deal with them or even find that they’re manageable, after all. But you’re absolutely right that it’s *also* good for children to have places where whatever frightens them is acknowledged as being frightening…

I think it’s a real possibility he was, as ridiculous as it seems.  But if he was going to dialysis daily, I have to wonder if he hid his hand pain until it was visibly obvious.

“So what, pray tell, caused this situation?”

The ‘Donuts’ part of their name is so iconically linked to their non-donut offerings that companies knock off their product by slapping the name ‘Donut Shop’ on their K-cups. This probably won’t be as disastrously derided as IHOB, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

They named themselves after the candy.

You’re welcome.

I’m not a fan of Goetz’s for the same reason you like them (and I like caramels for the same diametrically opposed reasons). But I have to really appreciate your accurate and detailed descriptions of the candies. They make your review trustworthy and let me form my own conclusions about the candies that I haven’t…

That’s probably because an awful lot of American candy is still being produced and distributed by small, mom-and-pop owned companies in just one or two factories. Something about it is still economically feasible on the small scale and can resist buyouts. Not always forever, though - I see on Wikipedia that Squirrel…

My first thought was, “Your boyfriend is dumping you at a restaurant precisely because the waiter will interrupt your attempts to drag out the conversation. Don’t transfer your anger to the most convenient and vulnerable nearby target.”

Say what you will about Zodism; at least it’s an ethos.

You know, “Disease ___ doesn’t exist anymore in America,” was one of the earliest, very common antivax arguments. And it was nearly true, until enough people didn’t get vaccinated. To me, encouraging bad practices, even if they’re on the receiving end rather than the actual supply end, is just another step down the…

“Narration is an easy and effective way to quickly to quickly establish the world and the characters of the story.” So far as I can tell, narration isn’t easy. It looks deceptively easy, and so a number of the unwary attempt it with bad results. The fact that the Coen brothers can use it to so much, can toss it around…

There are the snake owners who make their snakes knitted vests, call them ‘snecks’ and ‘boop’ their ‘snoots.’ I can’t tell whether our reptile overlords will let them live as servants or put them up against the wall after the apocalypse comes.

If you think the bottle costs too much, then you don’t buy the bottle in the first place. If you think the bottle costs a reasonable enough price for you to pay it, then you assume that the service does, too, when they are taken together as a whole. The logic behind that whole letter eluded me.

You know what I find weird and unromantic? The decrease in people’s ability to use and understand figurative language. The idea that a Britney Spears song is somehow linguistically too sophisticated for music journalists to understand is just depressing.

The more I read, the more I think that’s true of a lot of people who knew him. I think even if they knew him at the time, they loved him so much that they do narrative backflips until they don’t know him at all now. They can say what happened in his life and recall certain stories, but they have rewritten the…