Dunno, but that's correct terminology, as far as know. The mono in monoxide usually also freaks people out, so it's a double whammy, anyway.

Oh shit, you could have really got her if you'd used the exact term: Dihydrogen Monoxide. The Monoxide is what gets them. Funny, though. I do this to my students sometimes. It's hilarious.

In the near future we will look back on our disdain and fear of autism in much the same way we now look back on our fear and disdain of homosexuality. We will be embarrassed at how we thought.

Parabens. This one drives me nuts. Methyl-parabens, the ones that people want to try and link to cancer in some people, are in very supply in blueberries. Why? Because they are a great preservative that nature developed. An anti-oxidant preservative.

Well said. While I understand that autism has its challenges, I also know plenty of autistic people who are okay with the way they were born. No one deserves to have their personality, their selfhood, described as a blight or a disease. In the very near future, I think we will look back on the way people describe…

John Mayer has that hazy look of someone who has just fucked waaaay too much. I suspect that he would only be able to make babies who have genetically natural STD's He may even cum acid, but I am unsure...

Yes, this Ariane. She's from Toronto (I think) and she is literally on everything everywhere. You probably see her at least a few times a day.

That's true about them. It's weird and annoying, but probably points to the fact that 'chemicals' are required to make products and some of them are hard to retitle as something that sounds more natural, since natural as such is limited to some very nice sounding, palatable things.

It's something about mild education (I mean educated, but not educated enough to be curious about some life-shattering lie someone is presenting to you and offering a false solution to, at the same time.) I'm a teacher and there is always a teacher in each school who pushes this bullshit and the whole naturalistic…

There's an Arbonn sales person in our neighborhood who likes to spout shit about toxins and living clean and all that. Watching what you eat. Getting exercise.

I sure wish famous people would stop trying to out-good each other all the time.

Well, it's certainly working. I'd never heard of them and would have no reason to until this post...

I was watching MST3K the other day and they have an episode with an Ed Wood movie from the 1950's. The old people in the movie were vocally scolding the generation of WW2 vet parents and Depression era parents for the their lax parenting skills, as compared to the Edwardian era parents, who had it all on straight.

It's the kind of catch-22 that I can't imagine ever comes out looking good. Because, who regularly keeps evidence of consent if they honestly feel like what they are doing is okay?

'Leading' in relationships. I really hate that one. I grew up around people like this. It's such an annoying concept. If you think in terms of someone leading in your relationship, then it is happening no matter what you think. He is leading, you just don't like how he's doing it. Since it's all fake anyway, being led…

My wide had none of this poor woman's issues. In fact, my daughter was breastfeeding already, but when we came in after a week for a checkup they wanted to do the Breastfeeding Clinic people were very worried that she wasn't doing it properly. They had my wife in tears and worried.

I have to admit, though, it WOULD be a pretty funny thing to see someone doing.

Remember back when we were all kids and someone wanting to be controversial in an uptight setting would say things like, "It's time women were in government instead of men. Men have screwed it up enough. Time to give the women a chance to fix everything!", or something along those lines?

I'm a guy and I work almost only with women at all levels of my job. I have had male bosses and female. I have no preference and, more to the point, I wouldn't even really think about the gender of a future boss. Bosses just happen.

HAH! I lost my job in the recession and stayed home with the kids from then on and my wife went to work full-time for the first time in a loooong time. Before I was at home, I did some house cleaning and all outside stuff (grass, garbage, make a deck). I fucking HATE yard work, but it was somehow my default jobs.