I think getting harsh at someone like this is a losing game. She will likely just get huffy.

Can you fake cry on cue? I suggest wobbly lips, then a sob, then a fake teary, honest “I just try to come here to relax and you won’t leave me alone” wail. Then bury head in hands and fake sob. Or really sob. She will leave you…

Well, and there was the actual slavery (a more demure kind, in some cases) of women being considered chattel — just not, if white and sufficiently upperclass, for open sale. Until the 1960s, in many states in the US, a woman could not own property or hold a bank account in her own name. If she was an adult and…

Pears. Seriously, girls, they do not take up much room and they do get things moving, without being hard to puke up and without being medication.

Whether or not porn actors have a union, all performers (including non-union extras) are covered by SAG-AFTRA requirements when they work on a union set. And most extras (especially non-union) are paid minimum wage with “bumps” for extra things.

Tatsoi, even when it is not grown flat so it looks like a blossom.

Best allergy med ever — xyzal (sp?) — it is the left-hand molecule of Zyrtec, is stronger, somehow, and does not cause the headaches I used to get from Zyrtec.

Folk are worried about feet and what they have on them (having previously been in a sock and a shoe) but don’t care whether there are sex drippings soaking into the fabric of the seat for someone else to sit in. Ewwwww.

NOT SOLD. Read the TFA. Donated. And, yes, the person donating has to sign a bajillion forms. This is not a new thing, the tissue donation either from abortions or from other surgeries that result in removal of tissue.

1. That IRS story was debunked more than a year ago. IRS was taking its time over all political sounding organizations, on the right and on the left.

I donated tissue from a surgery I had. It is heavily regulated and depends on the cooperation of the surgeon and any need for pathological testing. Tissue is needed to carry out basic research, especially genetic research. There is a lack of available tissue for research into treatment and cures for some really…

Not entirely unreasonable to label salt gluten free. Commercially prepared salt has ingredients meant to keep the salt flowing freely, some of which might include amounts of wheat gluten sufficient to cause problems for folk with celiac.

British grandmother not only boiled all fresh vegetables with a slice of pork belly for about an hour. My mother (depression generation) could cook amazingly well.

That is the old “everything works out in the end” BS my mother used to manage her rage (she was born in 1917 and wanted desperately to be a mortician).

I still carry the anger of growing up very, very poor because my mother was paid half what the men were because “they had families to support,” as did she.

Does it…

No — it really is that bad. In fact it is worse than they report.
Most of coastal California is mediterranean desert and we are in the middle of a thousand year drought.
We depend on snow in the mountains for water after the rainy season ends. There is no snow on the mountains.
And, yet, people keep coming. San…

Valid, but how many people know exactly how you make a dish? If the ingredient isn’t common or listed, how is one to know. I make it my business to watch almost all the food porn shows so that if I have to go out to eat for work, I might know how to avoid making myself miserably ill and following that up with…

What I do not get with restaurants, is why they think it is OK to give someone the equivalent of food poisoning (how most of my food allergies hit me) by not honoring allergy requests, but take care (one hopes) not to give food poisoning otherwise. Try being allergic to citrus. No one believes that. And it is in…

My big, part Maine Coon mountain climbs up the banister. I have not been able to get a good video since black cat against dark stairway. The banister is soft pine, so it is full of cat claw marks.

Butter. Seriously. The salt helps heal and the butter fat is a good barrier. And it tastes better when you invariably eat it off.

I’ve had my nose electrocauterized and chemically cauterized in the 80s, but never with just a match <g>.

How did it take you any longer than breathing in one of their stores? Half of what is in their tea blends is sugar and the other half is artificial flavors and scents. I am not madly sensitive when it comes to tea flavors, but discovering that teavanna only carried one drinkable tea took only one visit. I think they…

How did it take you any longer than breathing in one of their stores? Half of what is in their tea blends is sugar…