You drink the plaid potion. You feel more intelligent.

If this is true, big if, here's what I think was going on...

You forgot about suing the researchers into oblivion and having them charged with crimes in twenty or thirty States.

They'll start by trashing the lives of the researchers and getting Congress and every State Legislature to investigate them.

You might not be surprised, but anyone with a scientific background would be. We have the smoking gun here. Actually, we had it years ago, but when powerful interests are against it we always need "more study".

Because powerful companies make money off it.

Calm down, Cyriaque. We don't want to have to get Mr. Hypo again, now do we?

You have to trust sometime. I trust my wife with loaded firearms, a car and a joint checking account. When we worked together I routinely trusted her with my life. I figure I can trust her to be adult about any hypothetical adultery.

And ditto for the boys. It isn't being "romanticized". It just feels better.

The main reason is that the store won't let you buy a mouse pad with boobs.

A midwife friend of mine gives a scrap to women who are having trouble with post-partum bleeding. She says it dries the uterus right up.

I'd give the rest of my life if the future could be the one from Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain. But it won't happen given the nature of American politics. Even the supposedly "Left" Party is to the Right of most Conservative parties in the world. The "Right" Party fits every one of the classic academic criteria…

Let's not forget kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy, obstruction of justice, corruption of law enforcement, destruction of justice, witness tampering, slavery (e.g. the Magdalene asylums) and interstate and international conspiracy to commit all the above. If that's God's One True Church we all owe the Devil an apology

For decades the Mormons have specialized in stealing Native children away and putting them in White homes.

Calorie counts don't tell the whole story.

A good place to start is Wrangham's Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Ants are remarkable creatures which exhibit amazing emergent behavior as hive super-organisms. Individually they are not what you'd call rocket scientists.

Came here for this. Leaving satisfied

The reason they can't is because their entire brand is built on a simplistic Manichean view of the world. It's glandular politics, not cerebral.

I probably don't want to know where undead cream comes from.