Eh, if you examine Kashrut law, it’s really a compromise with vegetarianism. It’s essentially a ban on animals that eat other animals. Only herbivore animals are permitted (that’s why they must “chew their cud”). Sharks, bottom-feeding fish and shellfish (which all consume whole or parts of animals) are banned. The…

My husband and I got tattoos of each other’s names - he on his chest, me on my butt - within a month of seeing each other. We made the appointment in week 2. We’re still together and in love 8 years later. We both felt off the bat that we’d marry the other person, and saw name tattooing as more of a dare and…

Sometimes I think we’re too afraid of anthropomorphizing animals. The reality is that animals have complex emotions and social lives. They have personalities. Feelings of love, affection, duty, companionship, frienship and trust didn’t suddenly evolve with human - they’re pretty base emotions. Moreover, this play,…

Nah. It’s a long-standing tradition for us Massholes to vote in Republican governors, borne out of the idea that there needs to be a balance of power and ideas in an otherwise Democratic state. If you want to get a sense of the state’s politics, look to its local legislature. Our statehouse is blue. The only…

That is beyond f*cked up. Doctors need to know how to perform abortions because they may be life-saving procedures. When I had a miscarriage a couple years back and had a D&C, fetal tissue was left behind and I wound up with a severe fever and infection that required a second, emergency abortion at 4am in the…

...but you can still have gender specific groups that aren’t exclusive - which can still retain their character AND follow this policy. This policy doesn’t say you can’t have, say, a women’s rape support group, just that the group cannot exclude men. This is similar to, say, a black student organization that doesn’t…

Eh, not really. The second clause (giving the right to bear arms) is not dependent on the preamble clause. The first clause lays out a reason for the right to bear arms, but it doesn’t make that right conditional on the existence or need for a militia. Moreover, there was a standing army when the amendment was…

...or parody, which this falls into.

This has happened to me more than once. They just ask you a series of questions from government databases, like where you were living 10 years ago. NBD

Try sweet wines like late-harvest/noble rot/eisweins from Riesling, Gewurtzraminer, Semillon, Chenin Blanc or Furmint. The French dessert wines like Sauternes or Baumard and Hungarian dessert wine Takaji are phenomenal. Lambrusco is an inexpensive, sparkling red wine from Italy that can be really tasty.

Any color of wine can be sweet, dry of off dry. And I’m fairly certain every varietal can be made sweet via interrupted fermentation, adding sussreserve or concentrated grape reserve (or dosage for sparkling), drying grapes on the vine or after picking, freezing or late-harvesting grapes, or encouraging noble rot.