The problem is that it's all speculation. There have been rumors about Beneful for years, and even if it's not toxic, it's a low-quality food full of dyes and cheap ingredients, but they've never found mycotoxins in it, and I haven't read anything suggesting toxicology results consistent with that type of poisoning.

Heh. I have a complete set of Heinlein on my bookshelves, and I never even thought of that.

Making it porn would be sexually liberating in a way the story just isn't. Really, the books are surprisingly tame for their reputation. They definitely depict a coercive, destructive relationship which frequently crosses the line into outright abusive, but as far as smut, they are like porn written by someone who…

Oh yeah, they absolutely need to have physical form, especially the inner goddess who is always doing stuff like drooling, fainting, dancing.

I know. I had to force myself to strip for a shower today, and I raced back and got dressed under my covers this morning after it. I was grateful for the blinding sun, though. As annoying as it was, the fact that it was shining on my car hood is, I'm pretty sure, the only reason I got the car started at all.

Today, my cat, whose life goal is to get outside and eat grass, snuck past me. Instead of scampering for the bushes as he normally does, he sat on the step looking gobsmacked by the cold, yowled like he was being murdered and smacked the front door desperately. I let him in and he proceeded to hide under the bed. He…

Fireworks and flag waving and patriotic tunes of course

If' they're late-term enough, I've euthed them at surgery to make sure they weren't ever awake and suffocating, but I've never seen anyone rip their heads off. I freaking hate pregnant spays, but with cat rescue at some high-volume shelters, I was a big advocate because the practice before we started them was just…

My favorite is how that cat is clearly ready to lay down some punishment on the other cat when it even looks like it's trying to intrude on the spot in front of heater.

Insurance companies make no sense at all. I once called an insurance company to try to get a rabies vaccine covered because I was in one of the higher risk tiers (working with wild animals). They came back and told me they would only cover it if I had rabies. I was pretty much incoherent with all that was wrong with…

When my grandfather died, my grandmother also just became a much happier person. She didn't hate him, but he was depressed and an alcoholic, and it couldn't have been easy living with him for so many years and feeling trapped by religion and expectations.

That Real Time episode made me so mad I almost threw something through my TV. The part that had me so spitting angry, though, was when he talked about how vaccinating makes your immune system lazy and ineffective because it never has to work I terrified my cats by screaming over and over, "Vaccines work by stimulating…

Being bisexual often means seesawing between identities in many other people's eyes regardless of how you consider yourself. If I'm with a woman, people say I'm a lesbian and treat me like one. If I'm with a man, people treat me like a straight woman. If I talk about being bisexual, many lesbians have no interest in…

Me too! When I left for college, my waist was barely 2 inches wider than one of my thighs. Now, my waist is not quite so tiny, but in proportion to my thighs, it's pretty small.

Lactaid is awesome. I have a love affair with milkshakes, and without Lactaid I would be forced to choose between them and GI pain.

My stomach is pretty cool with dairy, my intestines, though, the image is pretty accurate for those.

You decide, going with your theme, here are some of the plot points from this timeless love story: . The "hero" actually has a gynecologist come to the house to put the heroine on birth control because he hates condoms. Then they break up for like a week during which time she stops taking her pill and then he has the…

No kidding. I think it would have been okay if she had the main character talk that coyly about sex in the beginning when she was supposed to be a repressed virgin, but after they constantly fuck, maybe she could have used saltier language to show her new sexual confidence. Instead, she talks like that for three whole…

Dumb science, of course it's three. This makes me ridiculously happy, though, because you all remember the commercial. My 2 yo nephew was an owl for Halloween, and my sister and I thought it would be hilarious if he carried a Tootsie pop with his owl costume. It was a bust. We were the only ones who thought it was…

I know. I was cringing and shuddering as I read it, and I castrate animals on a regular basis.