Because when people claim to be gluten intolerant and then eat bread in front of waitstaff, it makes the waitstaff less likely to check things when I, a person with Celiac, actually need them to. Sort of like how calling every down mood “depression” contributes to society not taking depression seriously as a disease.

THANK GOD.

I don’t really think there’s much of a difference between “strangled her” and “caused immense trauma by illegally arresting her and then did none of the things you’re supposed to do with a suicidal detainee despite all evidence that she was indeed suicidal.” One is just a more proactive form of murder than the other.…

I agree that the third option is more likely, but I don’t think it puts the cops in a better light than if they’d outright murdered her. In their narrative, they knew she was depressed (exacerbated/caused by the illegal arrest) and possibly suicidal and did nothing about it. That’s just another form of murder, IMO.

IDK. Her supposed mugshot was really weird looking, and some parts of it implied that she might not have been standing when it was taken. But then again, mugshots are not exemplary photographs in the best of circumstances, and some of the evidence for her already being dead could be just really bad photography.

I dunno...I’d feel super creeped out by the fact that a stranger is just holding on to my biological matter too.

No matter what the mother did, it still isn’t right to punish children for it.

Neither KY nor the federal government have an anti-discrimination law, so she can’t be sued on those grounds, I don’t think. There’s probably some other grounds to sue here, but I’m not sure what they would technically be.

There’s no anti-discrimination law in KY, so it’s pretty hard for the federal government to strong-arm people into performing their duties. County clerks are not technically federal employees, so they can be protected by a sympathetic county or state government.

Because there are two meanings of “marriage.”

You should really check out Karen Abbott’s Sin in the Second City. It’s in the same vein as “The Devil in the White City” but about a different part of society.

This might be a stupid question, but: Should I read these in publication order or chronological order? I keep wanting to get into them but the sequence confuses me.

Honestly, if you’ve gotten food poisoning from so many upscale restaurants, I wonder if your problem is that you can’t digest fat well for some reason. Because that is...very odd otherwise.

Humans can digest raw meat. Carpaccio is a very popular dish. However, cooking it eliminates harmful bacteria and allows different flavors (humans actually taste most things better at room or warmer temperature—it is harder for us to taste cold things).

Venison becomes extremely tough very easily, because it has less fat.

You realize the cookie dough in cookie dough ice cream has no chance of containing salmonella, right? It’s not actual cookie dough.

Gee, it’s almost like some people prefer to trade location for space?? Like, maybe living space isn’t as important to them as lots of museums, or public transit, or myriad other things that come in high COL places??

Is it really, though? I mean—one jar of a good spice is $5-10. And I might use two or three tablespoons of it before it goes bad or gets lost or whatever. And I’m supposed to buy how many spices to have a decent variety of meals?

I’m not sure about boys, but I distinctly remember realizing that I liked girls around age 5 or 6. I probably wouldn’t have articulated it that way, but I was really drawn to the girls in cartoons, liked to play the superhero saving the damsel in distress, etc.

While I agree that it is perverted, you have to remember that this was a time when there were maaaaybe 200 people in a town and young, poor farm workers like Thomas had almost zero spontaneous contact with the opposite sex. Bestiality used to be way more common than it is now, for these very reasons.