What? I don’t understand. Where’s the tea?

“On August 15, a leader in the church testified that there are certain “spiritual” reasons why victims are deterred from reporting their assaults to police.”

Fun Fact: Las Vegas is the favorite vacation destination of Hawaiians. That tidbit confused me when I lived there. A friend explained it to me that artificial glitz was a welcome respite from all that natural beauty, and the hotels weren’t as expensive as they are at home.

I *was* kind of wondering how he would wear an ankle bracelet if...he has no ankles....

“I have done more for the cause of advancing women’s rights than any of the people who are criticizing me. This so-called crisis is manufactured by Ms. Spelman as a way to increase her profile as a social justice warrior.” [et al]

How radioactive is, say, a little chunk of uranophane?

Awwwwwww things like this is why I luv black bears so hard.

“Does it solve the problem by taking the life of an innocent child?”

Does he not realize that this is exactly what the risk is to the 10 year old girl?

Maybe it’s my financial disadvantagement showing, maybe it’s my LGBT sensibilities showing, maybe it’s my being old showing, maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t have a wedding when I had my failed marriage, but WTF is it with brides now about this material greed? Weddings are supposed to be a spiritual (not necessarily…

Once again, people who think they own their children as if they are things and not people.

Nope! But Jesus did specifically say, “No swearing oaths.” Not by heaven, not by earth, not by Jerusalem (that’s really in the text).

She should not have even sought out an elected position, if she were so fervent in her beliefs. Matthew 5:34 (from the mouth of Jesus) says not to swear any oaths.

I was reading up on this a few years back (octopedes are my fave ocean animal) and it has to do with an optic gland that begins the process. It finalizes the development of their reproductive systems, but also cuts off their salivary and digestive glands, which causes the lack of appetite (I guess food just doesn’t…

I just looked it up online. I took Biology in high school in 1983 and a lot has been discovered since. I just don’t get complacent.

Naw the best Healthy Stuff cookbook I ever had ever was and still is Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give A Fuck.

OH look, the “boys will be boys” excuse!

I do!

Toclafane. That’s what happens.

Starts 19 September? Which happens to be International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Coincidence?

Bats are their own order. Bats are also more closely related to Artiodactyla (deers and cows) and to Carnivora (cats and dogs) than to Rodentia (rats and mice).