It's kind of silly really. Once one or two prairie dogs of a colony get plague, they all get it and the colony is dead within a week or two. Basically, if the colony is alive, they are probably fine. It's the other "passive carriers" of the plague you have to watch out for, and their identify isn't so certain (I've…

My grandma's cure for this sort of thing was service, service, service, especially the actionable, small-scale, immediate-impact kind of service. It's hard to be mad at yourself when you're driving meals to elderly people. You feel like you need to work on yourself, and we all do, but maybe part of the solution is…

I remember the boys playing "Smear the Queer," but I don't remember that we knew the implication of the word at the time— or I sure didn't (I was quite the social justice-oriented kid and would have been quite disapproving). It's interesting that in that game everyone ultimately gets a chance to be "the queer."

I think being fun and suggesting fun activities is a great way to be appealing to a potential love interest, male or female! That said, if at no point does the love interest also step up to the plate with fun and ideas, and you're doing all the "entertaining," that seems like a red flag, too.

I'm sure they do, to a point. So it's possible he was taking long pauses to think about his answers before he spoke (something we could all stand to do) and they edited them out. But they can't possibly get every "er," and "um," and "well you see," bc there are usually a generous sprinkling of them left in most…

Did anyone else hear John Cho talk about the movie this morning on Morning Edition? He is one of the most beautifully precise off-the-cuff-speakers they've ever interviewed. There were no filler clauses ("well, you know," "if you will," "you see") and very few intentional stutters or "ums" or "uhs." I've always…

Buying in bulk is just good, down-home, common sense!

Was she a blonde defying gravity by being a yellow tang?

I think he made the right call.
The rumor is that last week, within days of his firing, ol' Spicey had signed a LARGE book deal contract. You can hire a ghost-writer, but I've never heard that a ghost-dancer was a thing.

I can't resent a gal for trying to get her's.

Or Kim Basinger's in LA Confidential. Just right for one, very specific role.

Australian reverse dancing? Do dancers swirl in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere?

I'm picturing a Holy Grail-type ending with the cops rolling up and shutting down the whole thing with grim looks and disapproving head-shakes.

Kitty penises.
I guess I could see how the world needed a less glue-ful way to make those.

Does he drink the nacho cheese? Is queso the drink they call longliness?

I really, really, really, really don't understand Snapchat.

Just rewatched The Right Stuff and was reminded how sexy young Goldblum was. I'm a fan of his at all ages, but… Mmm!

One of my family's most-quoted Adventure Time lines is when Slime Princess' evil sister Blargatha moans, "you guys don't know how hard it is to be this HAAAWT!" to justify her evil plans.

That's fine until you're stranded on an island full of nothing but pre-teen boys. Then watch your ASMR spiral!

My personal celebrities-being-weird-at-restaurants story is having Alanis Morrissette and the band Garbage come into an upscale (for Boise) restaurant and sit at the table next to us. They all seemed to be friendly and cheerful and non-disruptive, but Ms. Morrissette decided partway through dinner that she was hot or…