The label on the door, frame, or wall of the microwave is also a way to find the wattage.

its not that autism is more common- its that we opened up the diagnosis a lot and now kids who would have in the past been called “mentally slow” or just anti-social and different are now recognized as autistic. so It seems like there are more incidences when in fact there always was this many people with Autism,…

Great post. A few points to add to the SIDS discussion. Many parents believe that SIDS is related to their child not being able to “breathe” hence why no blankets or pillows etc... However, the most current research on SIDS indicates that it is not the baby’s lack of ability to breathe in oxygen but that SIDS is…

Potatoes no nutritional value?

As a former delivery driver for several years in the 90's...Fuck you for making me risk life and limb for your $5.99 plain pie and offering me a whole dollar for my efforts. I’d rather go home with no money. Man up and open a can of soup.

It was her quinceañera.

I’m gathering the prosecution thought otherwise. They wanted to use testimony from Porter’s trial in the other cases so they must have been pretty confident of a conviction. Without having seen the evidence myself and only having news reports to go off of, I thought Mosby overcharged Porter. Sometimes a hung jury is…

PG County would be ideal, for at least one party.

the defense basically said the BPD doesn’t give a fuck, and because they don’t give a fuck for anyone, their lack of fucks for Freddie Gray was not criminal.

It appears all of them.

Probably on the issue of whether or not he was guilty of the charges.

As someone who is sort of 25 going on 12, I kind of read “adulting” as pointing to the dissonance between what we thought “adult” meant as kids, and what it ends up meaning once you get there....

Like in a lot of cases “adult” is a performance just like anything else. I have to attend a conference for my work this…

Dolly Parton is a goddamn national treasure.

Jesus. I’m 34 and grew up with Star Wars. I went to see the updated films in theaters in the 90’s. I cut school to see the first showing of Phantom Menace having bought the tickets 3 weeks in advance. I have the original VHS box set that I am NEVER getting rid of since it’s the BEST version. And I wasn’t the only girl…

I’m convinced Walmart accidentally ordered a few thousand too many green lights and made up this whole green-lights-for-soldiers thing to unload them.

Besides, folks will just think you’re trying to be Daisy Buchanan

Before I read - Dear fellow parents, If your asshole kid is chasing chickens at the pumpkin patch, it is your job to stop them and explain why it’s wrong. It is not your job to stand there with your gross Timmie’s coffee, laughing and taking pictures on your phone. Add goats, baby donkeys, geese, etc. to that as well.

Which is why we should outlaw lobbying. Any politician that accepts any gift at all should be hanged. No matter how low the value.

Campaigns should be funded solely by tax dollars and have a very low limit. The candidate should not be allowed to spend their own money on it. All of them will be given free time on PBS…

Yeah, I was thinking the same way — “ugly” in this context is applied equally to both sexes. At least in my grandmother’s house.

This is horrible and ridiculous, but I feel I should point out (as someone who grew up in the south) that usually the word “ugly” in this context just means that one’s attitude/behavior is bad. Ugly on the inside, not the outside.