The most infuriating thing is when your phone locks in the middle of step three, and you are forced to unlock it with wet garlic-covered hands only to find you have to scroll down to the instructions all over again. 

They’re trying to build a brand/following. They’re after people who read the blog regularly, not ones who click over from a google search just looking for a recipe. I think the aspirational endgame is to get enough readership not only to sell adds but to go full Pioneer Woman and land a show and endorsement deals.

I almost choked to death twice. Once, at 25,alone, while chewing on the end of a mechanical Staedler pen and accidentally inhaling the cap. In a split second i determined the cap was 50% in there and decided not to try to swallow it - i kept my throat open after the inhale and flipped my head upside down. The cap fell…

It is only a matter of time before she cries reverse racism and white victimhood for critiques of this travesty. I bet the YouTube video of her white tears is already queued up & ready to post.

I hear you. I can look at spreadsheets and past performance and see that the expected return is greater than the cost of the mortgage loan, and rationally know that it’s easier to sell investments than to get money out of a paid-off house, but after years of student loans, car loans, mortgage payments, credit cards…

I’m with you on press articles that dumb down academic papers. But the problem isn’t the reading level, it’s the dumbing down of the actual information. You can write up a nuanced finding without using scientific jargon: “Some chemicals in wine might help you lower your blood pressure. These chemicals are also in…

I don’t see how “Whatever you’re writing, you should probably try to reach a lower reading level.” can be drawn from that data. It’s generally good advice when you’re writing for a lay audience, but it’s horrible advice if you are writing for technical journals or for a scientific audience. Your audience very much…