Pseudoscience, quacks and hacks abound. Unfortunately, quite a few of those selfsame biases will prevent people from believing or even reading this column... but please keep at it.

76%? According to what study?

No, no, no, you people don’t understand the reality of this situation: the driver of the black SUV was a human inhabited by an alien on a mission to ensure Trump and Kim annihilate the human race. The deputy was tipped off about the situation by a plucky band of high school kids who learned that you can tell whether…

Well, unfortunately, this isn’t strictly true. NIH has funded some god-awful “studies” over the years. No institute is 100% infallible. It’s still up to the reader to make a decision based on the strength of any study.

Cancer is terrible. Full stop. My mom is dying from small cell lung cancer, and it’s just terrible. She’s undergoing treatment, despite the “extensive” diagnosis, that being fatal, because she wants some more time to close things out. She’s gone through rounds of chemo, and will likely do rad therapy next. She…

Couldn’t make it to the path of totality, but had a good time with coworkers in the parking lot watching the partial. I was surprised how many people were a) unaware that there would be an eclipse at all, and b) had no idea what was happening, celestially speaking, and c) couldn’t figure out how to operate something…

From the article associated with the recipe:

My wife and I were eating at a restaurant during the 2012 partial eclipse, and I had a business card on me from something or other. I poked a hole in it, and let it shine on the tablecloth of the restaurant. Dead simple. We also saw the same tree effect outside.

Utter horseshit. Where’s the GoFundMe page that helps get his tuition covered? I hope he does well enough through monetizing this laughably horseshit breach of his basic creative freedoms that he can continue studying and keep working out, and eventually turn pro despite the NCAA.

Yeah, I see your point, and don’t *really* disagree... I just feel that no amount of money is “insignificant” when you’re retooling. Purely a personal level issue - there is no logical disagreement with your stance. Honestly, good luck to everyone since, you know, the goal is to win games.

I’ll grant you that, theoretically it’s possible for him to rehab (mostly) successfully. But I’ll take issue with the idea that Lincecum’s stint on the Angels had anything whatever to do with the fact that he’s not back in the organization today. He had decayed, and they didn’t need to bring him back as a minor…

There’s so much more than Falafel there! You should go (again?) if you haven’t (or haven’t in a while).

Damn, I forgot that one, but YES.

It’s a bad move for the same reasons that bringing Timmy back would have been objectively bad. Panda was good - great, maybe - for short stretches when he was healthy. He hasn’t been healthy for a while, and thinking that will change because he’s coming “home” is fantastical thinking at best. I’d bet he doesn’t…

I was born and raised in San Jose, and I’ll second La Villa and Flower-Flour (though it’s been quite a while since I was in the latter). I’ll add some more working-class places, too.