(Fictional) First Lady Abby Bartlet gave Elmo his vaccines in The West Wing. That was in the early days of ant-vaxx, but WW really did try to fix some of their earlier fail and shade on the antivaxx. (TBF, when autism first entered the WW ‘verse, we were all a lot more clueless as a culture.)

Sesame Street is produced by the Children’s Television Workshop, which is self-sustaining at this point. They were way ahead of the curve and retained the marketing rights, so all of those toys and games have been their bread and butter. That money means they can, and have, provided Sesame Street to PBS at a very…

Wall mounted catapults are the hot growth industry.

I’m going to disagree on the don’t go to bed angry advice. There are times when people just need time to process that isn’t available at the end of a long day. If that happens, it’s perfectly okay to say “I’m still angry, I do love you, but I need us to table this and come back to it later.” We all get hangry,…

I cut off my hair this week. I now have an almost pixie cut. I could use product suggestions and styling advice, even though I know I’m pretty happy with it. It still feels weird that I’m not pushing it out of my way every few minutes, but in a good way. My hair is fine, but I finally have volume, and it’s not nearly…

It’s still available by prescription, but a lot of pharmacies just don’t carry it. They can get it, so it runs copay/or generic rates plus a few days for the order to be filled.   It’s my pain drug of choice and I sometimes think I’m keeping the entire production running. (It works a treat on cramps because it…

Use the pain scale. Really. Take your worst injury or pain experience, and that’s your 10. (Mine is snapping an ACL or breaking a wrist.) Tell them what your 10 is. Then figure what your cramps are. For me, day 1 used to average a 7. When you tell them your cramps aren’t equivalent to a hangover (2), a cold (2-3) or a…

It may not be your style, but give chicstar.com a look. I am emphatically hourglass, to the point where I just sew my own because nobody makes anything in a FF cup, but chicstar comes close. They seem to build their smaller sizes on a B/C cup, their middle range on a C/D, and their plus on a D/DD, but they also build…

KO is better off with GQ and the video work he’s doing there. I am *hoping* that he’s gotten some therapy in the last couple of years, because he has a history of not playing well with his production/network teams after a year or two. (He was also under enormous personal stress at the time of his ESPN and MSNBC and…

No, no increases in substance abuse since 2012. In fact, opioid addiction is down in most parts of Colorado, just at the point when we should have been seeing upswing. This is being tracked very closely, and all of the data so far says that not only is drug abuse in general down, people who were having pill problems…

One of the best parts about CO legalization has been the massive increase in both edibles and vaporizer consumption. I am deeply, deeply allergic to a whole swath of plants in pot’s genus (hemp, hops, most decorative hackberry; also ragweeds, but they’re not related, I just have an immune system set to freak out). I…

Blame my lack of caffeine — I have a distinct correlation between wonkishness and caffeine deprivation.

My smother was a CPA who believed in child labor, so I spent every spring of my late childhood and teens as a file clerk. Smother didn’t have super-super wealthy clients, but she did do a lot of real estate developer, contractor and realtor business. I haven’t been anywhere near tax documents except my own for more…

They’re not required. A responsible medic will give you a complete exam, since they don’t want your boner meds giving you a heart attack or the reason you’re not getting one is something dire in the works, but there’s no requirement in most places, unlike with hormonal contraceptives.

Gaslight = natural gas = methane = farts.

I am actually rather thankful my grandmother died on Boxing Day. She had dementia, was reliant on Medicare, and in a nursing home, and only had about three more years of private pay money in the bank for the nursing home. It was sad watching her slowly cease to be herself, but at least now I’m not worried that she’s…

It was great in wallpaper — it was an insecticide before window screens and screen doors were really a thing, and when malaria was still endemic in the British Isles. Literally a case of pick your poison.

That is one pasty dude, using the very basic color matching utility of Procreate and the skin texture brush. And like 10 minutes of the sort of makeup technique that gets my face on in the mornings.

This is actually good sense - both cancers are quiet, mostly painless, and relatively easy to treat if caught early, but if they metastasize, the game is usually over.

Because Fred Sr(Trumpdaddy)‘s will changed before Fred died, but after Fred was showing dementia signs. Fred Jr’s kids challenged the will (as they should have, because a change after dementia is in violation of that critical sound mind clause) and in retribution, the kid’s health insurance got cut. Fred’s kids…