Sorry if it comes across as judgmental but there has to be some level of accountability for health, not universal acceptance of bad behavior. To use one of your other examples, do I tell people to stop smoking? Yup, especially if they’re friends of mine and have kids who depend on them. Do I give people with Type 1 dia…

Everyone should love themselves. That doesn’t mean you don’t try to change things that are (at least partially) in your control and will ultimately harm you and potentially harm your family. Forget your weight, if you have high blood pressure, you’d be a fool to not moderate your sodium intake and use medication if…

That’s all true. I’ll also add American restaurant portion sizes to the list of problems. But again, if the problem is the type and amount of food you’re putting into your body, then the answer is also changing the type and amount of food you’re putting into your body. It’s not hopeless. It’s more convenient to eat…

This whole topic is complicated because I want to be (and try to be) compassionate about individuals with different genetics and body types. Obsessions over food and weight aren’t healthy. At the same time, people weren’t this overweight 50 years ago and I don’t think it’s the genetics that have changed. Would you be…

It’s not just news content. It’s content, period. If I’m Coca Cola and I can show you an ad on a gaming site or on Amazon or on a dating site or on news site, and I can also see that you’re the same user all four times, I don’t need to only target you on the news site. The money is getting spread around to non news…

Maryland is small and you have it in three different regions and that’s probably perfect because nobody can agree. If you’re from the Northeast, it’s the south. If you’re from the south, it’s the north. I always say Mid Atlantic though. 

Grilling and poor sense of direction jokes... very edgy, ladies. 

Bernie isn’t gonna win, guys.

“If every cis man decided tomorrow that abortion was an inalienable human right, we’d be freed almost immediately from the hell of the Hyde Amendment and TRAP (Targeted Restriction on Abortion Providers) laws. If every cis woman decided tomorrow that she believed the same, we would still have a long, bitter battle…

1) I like Warren’s policies too and it doesn’t matter, they’ll never make it into law with the Senate the way it is.

At least the renters are paying the mortgage for you, right? I have the same situation, a house I lived in and couldn’t sell in 2010 at a reasonable price, so I just held on to it. I make a little bit on it a month but just put that back into the mortgage or into whatever repairs are needed. I’ll have it paid off at…

I’m relatively new to reading this site... has it always been deep and revealing posts like “Hey, check out this friggin’ geek!”

Bernie isn’t winning the nomination anyway, so we’ll never get to see what happens if Republican senators get their wish.

Exactly. And if you don’t know this you shouldn’t be writing the Kentucky Derby post.

You give away the fact that you don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about when you stress that the horse “led the entire way”, as though that means anything. A horse can’t run a mile and a quarter at top speed so the jockey tries to figure out the best time to run fast and the best time to conserve…

I Am Chemistry is also a good song with a children’s choir.

It would be great if you could propose a solution to this. I don’t know if testosterone level is the best way to determine who can compete with males and who can compete with females, but if it’s not, what is?

What might help a post like this is some data instead of asking us to extrapolate from the behavior of the people we personally know. I don’t even disagree with you but this is kind of lazy.

Yup. He was fine. And of course he thinks he’s the right person for the job, and he should say so. All candidates are deeply bizarre people and honestly every single one of them is nuts to think they’re the right person to lead this country. Somebody has to do it though.

Maybe the “spokesperson” transcribed his point of view word for word, and then walked it back word for word. And it’s obviously fair to hold him accountable for what his people say. But for the record, Pete Buttigieg made neither of those statements directly.