I read that the isolation of the Spanish Flu led to the roaring 20s, so I got a little excited. I could use some speakeasies and cocktails and jitterbugging after all of this. But then my spouse said, I think the roaring 20s already happened in this era, but just for rich people (hence, “the gilded age”, so us upper…

Delightful. Especially when the melting ice mellows it a bit. Also, if you keep a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge (which I admit is genuinely inferior to fresh squeezed lemon juice), you can have all ingredients on hand at all times. A good alternative to my usual standby with ingredients I can keep on hand at all…

Wearing a long sleeved rash guard and swim tights or a wet suit and booties can reduce the need for sunscreen other than your hands, neck, and face, which is way better for the environment.

My family made the annual easter egg hunt harder as we aged. Dyeing eggs the colors of nature (sky blue, tree bark brown, grass green) and hiding them where it is nearly impossible to find them (sky blue egg on a high tree branch where it blends with the sky above, brown egg in a stump, green one in the grass). It was…

In theory, some people might tip less. But Seattle eliminated tipped minimum wage and workers made more money in reality. They got a bigger boost from the owners paying them more money than they lost in some people tipping less. We don’t need theories. We got data.

My whole family was worried my grandfather would accidentally kill someone in a car accident when he got into his 80s and was still driving. We looked into reporting him to the DMV but in our state, at least at this time, you could not anonymously report someone to the DMV for needing a new driving test next time they…

Yes, but if minimum wage is $7.25 period, then they get tips + $7.25 instead of tips + $2.13. So if they are getting enough in tips to get just barely over $7.25 once you factor in the $2.13, they make ~$15,000 year working full time. If they get the same in tips + $7.25, they make an additional ~$10,000 per year.…

You are 100% correct, but in my fantasy, everyone else gets vaccinated, and then only these guys die off. Let me have this. 

In the film, the more she risks being interpreted as a shitty person, the better she comes off.

There is a good Science Versus episode on the subject of sex addiction. It found that the science doesn’t support the idea that sex addiction is real in the sense that it is anything like other forms of addiction (even non-substance ones, like gambling). And I was shocked to learn that people who identify as sex…

Someone I am close to started micro-dosing LSD on the days he saw his therapist and described it as extremely performance enhancing (compared to when he saw a therapist and didn’t micro-dose). Therapy is often about understanding what you feel with nuance and figuring out why you feel it and then learning to think…

So first he says DC residents don’t need representation in Congress because they have a powerful voice because members of Congress can see their yard signs? Then he says that he doesn’t know where the Tesla dealership is in DC?

I react to this the way I reacted to the news that when hurricanes are named after women, lots of men won’t evacuate because they can’t take it seriously as a real danger. I’m like, then let’s name them all Hurricane Tinkerbell.

DC put eliminating the tipped minimum wage on the ballot and it was heartbreaking to listen to my favorite bartenders explain that they opposed it because the bar owners had a little meeting with all of them and explained to them that if the law forced them pay everyone at least $7.25/hour and not $2.13/hour, the…

This is definitely beside the point, but DC does have a car dealership. There is a Tesla dealership at 9th & H NW.

Thank you for acknowledging that this was both anti-Asian and anti-woman violence. All of the coverage that is failing to call out the targeting of (specifically Asian) women is making me crazy. Pointing out that it is both does not take away from the fact that we are experiencing an acute problem with anti-Asian…

*ahem* Blabarry is a her. But thanks for the compliment. :) 

If you need regular/natural cocoa powder for baking something, but you only have Dutch, it won’t have enough acid to react with the baking soda to rise. But you don’t have to run to the store to buy regular/natural. You can use Dutch if you add a little acid.

It guessed I am younger than I am, perhaps because I like some of the “new, trendy” foods from the last time they came around, like Bubble tea.

Great. Now women won’t be able to gaze up at the moon without being reminded of #MeToo.