I just want to say that Dr. Bronner’s soaps are awesome.  I use their regular ol’ liquid castille soap to refill foaming handsoap dispensers.  Put a half inch of soap in and fill it the rest of the way with water and you’ve got real foaming soap (not detergent) that will really clean your hands. 

They’re the most common beef cattle around here. They carry a LOT of meat on ‘em for being such a moderate size overall, and they do well just about everywhere. Very hardy.

I thought they had pretty much taken over the beef industry. What kind of beef do they raise in Florida? Brahman?

I live just outside of Dallas and I go by a ranch that runs a huge herd of Red Brangus. They’re good looking cattle and the bulls are intimidating looking.

I think the breed matters much more to the ranchers than to the consumers of beef. Texas Longhorns do great in the Texas heat, but they don’t have a lot of meat on…

My GF thinks they’re cute, too. Always needing to have their bangs cut...

She also likes Longhorn cattle.

Wait, maybe there’s something Freudian going on there...  Nah, sometimes a horn is just a horn, right?

If you want to live dangerously, turn the overflow cover so that the hole is pointing down. This will allow you to fill your tub to the brim (or even overflow it, hence the “living dangerously” warning).

I use a sponge. It’s like magic. No need for abrasives at all.

Unless you already have coke laying around, I’d start with vinegar.  That’s something we all have on hand for cleaning, and it’s so effective here.

I don’t think “everyone” can learn. There is a LOT that goes in to sharpening knives.

If you’re a knife enthusiast, it’s fun to learn about the angles and stones needed to sharpen different knives properly.  But it’s a lot to learn.  Even if you just want to keep the same blade geometry as the knife maker used…

Vinegar or any other mild acid will take care of urine deposits pretty quickly.  Coca-cola works if you have any that’s gone flat.

Indeed.

Cooks need to realize that knives need professional sharpening every year or so. Dull knives are dangerous!

In many areas the local DFW is recommending that...

Great article.  I’ve been reading about this in birdwatching groups and I’m glad to see this kind of mainstream advice.

Indeed!

Surely when you were single, you changed them after having a date spend the night?

Yep, or use a “puppy pad” for, uh, intimate activities that really get the juices flowing!

I’ve been reading a lot of the papers about biome transplants. Turns out we all have different gut biomes based on our diets. The critters living in the intestines of a 40 year old Japanese woman who eats a lot of fish and rice is going to be very different from the gut biome of a 20 year old American college student…

And yet, it’s not written that way.  It’s written more as clickbait.  If it was meant to clearly only address the wellness scam issue, it could have clearly said just that.

You probably would have had the same or similar result with any sponge.  Looks like it didn’t need the abrasive element.

Totally agree that writing is going downhill fast. I just don’t understand why sites that pay people to write (as opposed to personal blogs) don’t have editors. Such a small price to pay for an enormous benefit. ESPECIALLY since society is becoming less and less tolerant of published social errors (call it cancel…

Agreed that this is not journalism, but it is supposed to be professional writing. I mean, these people are making a living from it, right? While I assume they have an editor, I’m not sure that’s a fair assumption, based on all of the errors (grammar, judgement, whatevs) that are allowed. I’m just done clicking (and…

While I do usually order lattes at cafes, I’m not as picky about the milk as I am the coffee.  Do either of these machines brew the coffee so that it even comes close to espresso?

While I do usually order lattes at cafes, I’m not as picky about the milk as I am the coffee.  Do either of these…