You may FEEL that playing god in the science community by splicing genes is risky or dangerous, but the evidence does not support that opinion.

Oh, don’t worry. I fully expect Trump and the GOP congress to push for national right-to-work laws, and Democrats to just roll over and let them, so it won’t be an issue.

No, jackass, ZexMaxwell just clearly made the implication that the hundreds of years of selective breeding of teosinte into maize and then modern corn was exactly the same as GM. It’s not, not at all.

Selective breeding and GMOs are not the same thing. Selective breeding only works with the DNA of a single species, whereas in most cases, GMOs are altered with DNA from another organism.

Right, foolish me for assuming that the Trump administration will be as vindictive in his policy as he is on Twitter, and by all accounts has been throughout his entire life.

I thought that the firing of federal workers for purely political reasons was against the law? Bush got into trouble for politicization of firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006.

That’s really frightening. The worst thing is, many of us were saying back when the Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism-related measures were being passed that these laws were rife with the potential for abuse.

They just passed this this week in the lame duck session of the MI legislature.

Apparently the Michigan GOP intend to completely ignore the First Amendment. This looks like something that won’t hold up in coutt, but it will deter protest anyway since it can only be challenged after the fact:

I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Who knew the first casualty of the Trump administration would be satire? What’s the point when we’re all living in an Onion article.

Oh, good, we can have Celebrity Apprentice: Despots Edition with Putin, Dutarte, Assad, and Erdogan.

Well, she was only two years old when her family came to the U.S., but I’m sure she heard about the first-hand experiences of her parents and family.

Given that Gov. Snyder spent $3 million in taxpayer funds defending himself from Flint water crisis lawsuits, as a Michigan taxpayer I really don’t want to hear any whining from Republicans about how much it’s going to cost. A cost, by the way, which they have been grossly inflating, probably by including the costs of…

AFAIK, unless things have changed post-acquisition, you have to get followed by the main site or sub-blog. The regular writers have the ability to do this, but I don’t think there was ever a formal policy in place - in my experience they mostly seem to do it on a whim if you make enough decent comments that get pushed…

Her family moved to the U.S. when she was two years old. The implication that she is a “foreign journalist” and therefore biased is complete gaslighting.

Oh, I’m not disagreeing at all, it was more of a PSA jumping off your comment. Good commenters who are stuck in the greys sometimes need a little help getting visibility.

Conversely, having spent a lot of time in the greys myself a couple of years ago and knowing how frustrating it can be, I try to ungrey every non-troll reply when in a position to do so, even if I don’t necessarily agree with their point.

I love that she’s aggressively challenging him on his bullshit. Chuck Todd could learn a thing or two from from her. We are going to need much more of this type of journalism in the next four years.

This is correct. Blanching involves stopping the cooking process by plunging in ice water. The par-fry method works fine for Russet potatoes, but I have found that if you want to use something like redskins or Yukon Golds, a three step process works best - par boil / par fry / deep fry. I’ve read that McDonald’s fries…

This thing really started to get traction with Al Gore