The upside is you didn’t have to deal with the MUST BITE EVERYTHING phase. Their teeth get way too big way too quick for that to be fun. ;)

There’s no blood test for rabies. The only way to definitively diagnose it is to euthanize the animal and test the brain tissues.

I still sometimes can’t believe I actually found and held that. The whole site was just stunning. It was somewhat near an excavated site (dated about 1000 CE, which is why I estimate the bowl at about that age, plus its markings matched a common pattern of that time) but this particular one hadn’t been touched and was…

That guy seems like a decent fellow, but honestly, it kind of annoys me that he took the bottle. I may have more experience here than the average person since I do a lot of off-trail hiking in historically rich areas, but it’s always been drilled into me since I was a little kid that you don’t take any artifacts from…

I read “Beyond the Veil” and never even realized it was her dissertation. It was a brilliant text that balanced scholarship with compassion in a really meaningful way, and educated me a lot at a time when Islam was not really in the news like it is now. I’m grateful for that because it was fascinating enough that I…

I also climb and have my concealed carry permit, but I disagree. I do SAR, and I do a lot of target shooting at a public gun range, and to me it seems like it’s a lot more than the 0.01% fucking things up. Especially with guns; there are a frightening number of people who are...well, “casual” would be a nice way of…

No, “green card” specifically refers to the card issued to permanent residents. There are temporary work/residence visas that need to be renewed periodically (6 months to 3 years depending on the visa, in my experience), and there are different laws governing those, but if you have a green card, you are a permanent…

The selfish part of me wants to ideally wander off to my favorite spot in the desert and die, then either be scavenged or naturally mummified to be dug up by curious archaeologists in the future.

eta: ack, I’m on mobile and tried to fix a typo and my post disappeared. :/

It is a new(ish) thing. They used to not expire, but that changed in IIRC the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. I would guess the older ones were grandfathered in but I’m not sure how that all was handled.

Your former employer was probably breaking the law by requiring you to regularly show your I-9 documents and making your job contingent on them, just like McDonald’s was here. This doesn’t just apply to permanent residents. Generally, the only people who can be required to regularly prove their eligibility to work…

Don’t be obtuse. Many people forget to renew their licenses. Even if you get pulled over with it, the most that typically happens is that you get issued a “fix-it” ticket, which you can get out of paying by showing you did go ahead and renew your license. It’s certainly not grounds for dismissal from a job (unless…

A green card means that you’ve been granted permanent resident status, which means that you have indefinite permission to live and work in the US. The big difference between permanent residency and citizenship (other than some voting rights and stuff which aren’t really relevant to this situation) is that permanent…

I don’t dislike her, but as someone who grew up on farms and ranches and still lives in a ranching community, she grates on me because her blog is a very Disney-fied version of ranching (or at least comes off that way to me). She spins this narrative of “oh shucks, we’re just a typical ranching family” but reading…

I agree completely. Honestly, I’m more scared of an accidental panic in a crowded space than I am of terrorist attacks. Look at any nightclub or stadium fire to see how many people die of crush injuries or are trapped and can’t get out due to panic and people just piling up. The Station nightclub fire is the classic…

I can’t eat at Waffle House. I think it’s that yellow and brown color scheme, but every single one I’ve been in just seems dirty and unsanitary to me, even when they’re clearly clean and well-maintained.

Respectfully, you know nothing about me or the way my faith influences my life. In fact, my faith requires me to love and support and help others. If you’d like a list of the concrete actions I take every day to help those in need, I can give you that. And honestly, if, say, someone had me at gunpoint and asked me to…

I was going to point that out, too. I’m Christian (not Evangelical, but still) and if you asked me to choose, I’d have to say I’m more loyal to my faith than my country. Doesn’t mean I want to turn the US into a theocracy.

I guess it depends on what you mean by “totally cool,” since most do struggle with the theological implications but there are some that are pretty staunchly pro-choice and understand that it is the best option for many women. For example, here’s the UCC’s stance on it, which is pretty explicitly pro-abortion (for…

Can I co-sign that thanks to Mr. Policastro? As a devout Christian, I was still unaware of some of those organizations. I’m always looking for more LGBT-affirming Christian groups to support, so that list is very helpful.