It's probably sort of hereditary. Most kidney problems are caused by hypertension and Type II diabetes, which are caused by a complex interaction between genes and other factors like diet.

Congrats on getting sober and healthy!

Dude. If running will keep me looking like that at 92, I’m starting tomorrow.

How Clean Is Your House! I loved that show. They had a microbiologist (Kim) come swab all the surfaces in the house and tell the people about the germs they were hanging out with all the time, and this awesome professional house cleaner (Agatha, with a glorious hair style and fancy-pants cleaning gloves) would show…

I’m kind of thinking of the dumpster diving that I’ve seen other Hispanic people do: looking for aluminum cans and other metal that can be redeemed/sold for cash. Somehow I get the distinct impression that Marie’s bagel dives are looked at more favorably than a lot of metal hunting, even though metal hunting probably…

I kinda thought that, too, but don’t want to make assumptions about people’s sex lives. I mean, it’s not unbelievable that Greg just hates to clean and likes having her around. But I was also like “if we replace Marie’s-friend-Greg with Marie’s-husband-or-boyfruend-Greg this story became a lot less interesting. Area…

I guess if she's a housekeeper for this Greg guy, she's not actually getting free rent; she's just paying rent in kind instead of in cash. But then, if we acknowledge that, she's not actually living on just 5K a year, so.

Errrr, why not count her income as a housekeeper for Greg? What does maid service in Brooklyn cost, relative to renting a bedroom in a nice place like what she’s got? I’m guessing live-in/on-call maid service isn’t cheap?

Geese. Geese are smellier than chickens. No contest. Geese are also stupid as fuck and can be quite mean.

They’re given stimulants, which are known in slang as speed, to correct a problem of brain chemistry, which will in turn help them control their behavior.

It’s a pet theory by a complete layperson, so I’m not surprised (just a little disappointed). I’d really love to see some of the epidemiology if you can link it. I just think it’s interesting.

ADHD isn’t about impulsivity?

Gossip from your girlfriend and her family is not really a credible source. How exactly do most of her relatives “work in the medical field”? There are lots of people who work in one corner of the medical field, are perfectly competent in their area, and yet make complete asses of themselves by vomiting up all kinds…

Bullshit. Every word of your comment is bullshit including “and” and “the”.

I have a theory that ADHD is not actually over diagnosed, but has been showing up more because of birth control.

Edited because I apparently don't know how to reply to the correct person

The Professor should know that baby talk (or at least the high pitched singsong tone) really had been shown to be beneficial to a baby’s development :-)

The only negative physical/developmental result so far is that she actually gained a little too much weight at first. That was when we were like “Eh, it’s a phase, she’ll snap back soon enough” and let her drink as much milk as she wanted and eat all the fruit and bread and stuff like that. Right now she’s actually…

It’s what my phone apparently thinks I meant when I mis-typed “bananas”. But of course it was clearly not evident from the context...

I don’t know about other countries except Mexico, which definitely has plenty of kids who won’t broken bananas or wrinkly food orwhateverwhatever