Its an up-front expense, but I have been saving energy on heat at night by using an electric mattress pad for the last ten years. It allows me to keep the room temperature lower (which is nice, because I like to breathe cool air while I sleep) but stay pleasantly warm under the covers with the mattress pad’s subtle…

We have Andrew Cuomo joking to a female reporter about “eating the whole sausage”

Given that Cuomo admitted to doing some of the dirtbag stuff that was alleged in his non-apology apology, do we need to put alleged in the headline? He’s an admitted dirtbag at this point. And a dirtbag caught on camera. And also, being a dirtbag isn’t a crime, so we don’t even have to say alleged to avoid a libel…

If you aren’t attached to your current baskets, replace them with smaller baskets. Less to fill each year.

Even though I know this sign is just telling me that this is the Failing Street pedestrian bridge, I always get a little nervous driving under it. 

Not that this is the point, but it said that they all quit and informed the leadership they would be taking their severance pay. Yeah, that isn’t how severance pay works. You gotta be fired or laid off to get it. Its not thanks-for-quitting pay. I hope they don’t get any of it. 

Asian food recipes that just say X amount of “soy sauce” in the ingredients list. Which kind? Light? Dark? Think? Thin? Sweet? There are so many more options and they are dramatically different.

Yeah. The dates that last waaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than they are supposed to. That’s when you know you’ve found someone to be in a relationship with.

My aunt, who lived in Europe for much of her twenties, taught me to use room temperature lettuce and to “fatigue” the leaves while mixing it with dressing - keep gently mixing and mixing until the leaves soften without actually bruising them. This is typically for a simple green salad with vinaigrette, which is my…

Yep. I wish that was the reason she couldn’t get confirmed. 

We can label a food as bad without labeling a person who eats it as bad. I mean, the leap it takes to get from one to the other is massive. You have to really hate fat people to get there. Of course, we live in a culture that really hates fat people.

I mean, there is a book written by a journalist who interviewed food scientists (and former food scientists) who figure out how to manipulate the food to produce cravings and override the body’s internal mechanisms to prevent overeating. I mentioned the name of the book in my post. You don’t have to read it. I do like…

People shouldn’t be made to feel shame. They should be angry that processed food companies employ food science to manipulate our biology for profit, and in a manner that makes us unhealthy.

The book, Salt, Sugar, Fat, goes into how hyper-palatable, hyper-processed foods are made to override the body’s natural impulses against overeating, increase your cravings, and trick your mind into thinking you are eating less than you are, all while delivering unhealthy and even habit-forming levels of sugar,…

It is rare for there to be a photograph like this one, which captures the kind of allegation that is so often doubted or downplayed.

“The framing of therapy for men should never be about being broken and needing fixing,” says Edward Clowes, a journalist based in London, England.

Script out the honest conversation you have with a lying, manipulating narcissist that enables you to determine out that they are in fact a narcissist. I would love to know what it is.

If you are willing to end a relationship with mere suspicion, then do. Not everyone is. If you aren’t, its helpful to have a thing to do to gather more information.

Its not testing their affection. You aren’t trying to see if they buy you flowers and do stuff for you. You are testing them to see if you get back and they are pissed or withdrawn. If they aren’t, if they are fine on their own for a bit, they pass. What its testing them for whether they are a narcissist.

No, they aren’t. Whether you are generally an independent person doesn’t mean that that your attachment style is avoidant.