My grandfather ran a machine shop and had horrible stories of injuries, so I knew what a ring avulsion was. It’s also how I know that it is possible to have a button lodge in your eye.

Yeah, the kibble they use in labs tastes kind of like cardboard, but it’s pretty homogeneous and nutritionally complete because labs need to be efficient. The pet store, stuff appeals to owners because it looks more appetizing, but is either not as complete as the lab stuff or is only complete if the rat eats all the…

Also, please only pick the first two options (the oxbow ones) or just get lab block and use it as a base. Pet rats are little bastards and will pick out the pieces they like in those mixed grain diets or eat just seed shells and then get weird nutritional deficiencies. Then owners will bring them to me and want me to…

Churches are all the way exempt from the contraceptive mandate, but churches are defined really narrowly in that they much inculcate religion as their primary purpose, be nonprofits and primarily employ and serve people who share their religious beliefs. Religious nonprofits that do work with the community get the…

The church is creepy. I’m still freaked out by how my 6th grade religion teacher went on and on about St. Maria Gorretti who was like 12 and died fighting off her rapist to preserve her chastity and how if we we were attacked we needed to fight even if it meant we would be killed because of it so we could go right to…

Yeah, the role was underwhelming, and the fact that she and Taylor Shilling have negative chemistry didn’t help matters. I have functioning eyes, so I know she’s gorgeous, and she seems like an interesting person IRL, but the character in OITNB was very meh.

This drives me insane too, and I hate when the pro-choice people cede the argument by starting to get into exceptions. The rape and incest exceptions make no sense unless what you object to is women having “consequence-free” consensual sex rather than objecting to abortion.

Yes, if A cannot develop into B, it must be C. That’s totally sensible.

Embryos are totally people when they are the results of dirty sluts agreeing to sex but not so much when they result from rape or incest. Good to know.

I think that’s probably true, but I’m confused. I was just remarking on how weird cover letters were. Or were you commenting on a different response?

More than one. What do they think cotton is made up of? Hugs?

They don’t seem to. I’d even be willing to try if they did because O.B. tampons have become terrible to the point that I cannot use them anymore.

Crazy. Apparently, there was a time around here when people would list a house and have multiple offers of asking price or higher the next day, but that day is not today. My sister just sold her house after having it listed for a few months for under the asking price. She has two offers and took the highest one (it…

Wow. Was that recently? You must live in an area with a great seller’s market. My brother was trying to sell his house, and he was just happy that people were interested because the housing market around here kind of sucks from a seller’s perspective. I can’t imagine any buyers in this particular market not laughing…

It’s difficult. I think all parties accept selfish assholes. Republicans just seem way more interested in who other people fuck and how they deal with reproductive health than the others.

Libertarians, maybe. They loathe change and are xenophobic little furry assholes, but they could give two shits about what people do unless those things are directly related to either providing them them with food, entertainment or comfort or interfering with those things.

As soon as someone talks about, “all of those chemicals” with an alarmed look, I tune them right the hell out. If someone wants me to be concerned about a specific ingredient or class of them, they need to name the potential problems and tell me why I should be concerned, and I’ll make a decision. When they say,…

He’s an engineer and mom is a fairly well-respected (as far as I can tell) pediatric glaucoma specialist. Dad’s job is mainly is Israel, and they all lived there for a time. As far as I can gather, he petitioned to have the kids returned to him in Israel and was denied.

Is he trying to sound like some sort of Victorian plutocrat for some unfathomable reason, or does he just have really shitty image people?

I can French braid my hair mainly because I have hair that is a good texture for braids, and I practiced a lot as a kid. It isn’t perfect, but it’s passable. I have more trouble braiding other people’s hair because once you learn to do it by feel, your eyes screw you up. Also, your arms are at the wrong angle when…