I can understand appearance standards to a degree, mostly as they relate to health and safety, but this is ridiculous. Setting aside their bullshit idea of a small weight range for attractiveness (a 7% gain is a pretty small change), it’s perfectly normal for people to gain some weight as they age, particularly during…

I was considering wandering around Whidbey this weekend to get out of dodge, but I’m reconsidering. Bunnies are cute. Tularemia not so much.

I have a soft spot for the lavender store in Coupeville.

Where on Whidbey are they congregating?

I’ve read in other comments that this city doesn’t have a stellar reputation when it comes to racial sensitivity. Given the situation, it looks like they got confortable being assholes and didn’t bother to try to cover their asses.

They may have a hard time doing that. If they had reason to believe it was an explosive device of any kind, they should have evacuated the school and called in the bomb squad. If they didn’t, they shouldn’t have handcuffed him and dragged him in for questioning.

I don’t think this qualifies as suspected terrorism any more than the pop tart gun qualified as an attempted school shooting.

What about during questioning? Does that count as custody? Or have I been watching too many legal shows?

And refused to let him call his parents. Isn’t it illegal to question a minor without a parent, guardian or lawyer present?

I’m glad you’re getting to him young. I can’t seem to convince people that sugar is sugar, and whether it’s from sugarcane, corn, fruit, beets, trees or succulent plant, eating a diet laden with it isn’t all that healthy.

Almost all sugars, grains, legumes are to be avoided, as well as starchy vegetables like potatoes. Sounds pretty similar to a low carb diet to me.

I think almond flour crepes sound good too, but I’m not going to pretend they’re any healthier than something with flour or another grain.

Paleo is just a low carb diet with a naturalistic fallacy veneer.

I do cross fit (please don’t skewer me too much), and my gym is populated by people who either eat paleo, take questionable workout supplements like candy or both. I’ve yet to give in to the temptation to point out that those two things involve a whole lot of cognitive dissonance. I did however have to explain to one…

Replace racism with victim blaming.

Those people are the reason I stopped working Sunday shifts.

Did you wash your hand in Holy Water afterwards? I would have dove headfirst into the baptismal font.

I went to a church that served some kind of homemade flat bread at communion instead of the wafer. My grandfather nearly blew his top when I said I preferred it because I didn’t like eating something that sucked all the moisture out of my mouth (it also actually tasted like bread). Apparently the wine helps with that,…

Some people can find a lot of good in a terminal diagnosis, but a lot also find a painful and dehumanizing experience. To watch someone you love go through that is hell on earth, and I’m sorry you and your mother are in that position. I hope this is approved, so that she and others like her have a say in how their…

When you first start a job your rights to medical care for a workplace injury needs to be drilled into the heads of every employee, and probably sledgehammered into that of their managers. And a poster put up in a very conspicuous place with emergency phone numbers.