I think my point still stands.

That sounds amaaaaaaazing. Wait, now you’re persuading me, you manipulative manipulator, you!

Martin was the incumbent and had served 23 years. Not that anyone sane would vote for a known perv over more of the same. I’m not sure what happened - there might have been a lot of new people in town who wouldn’t have necessarily know about decades-old charges against the guy. A big superconductor plant opened a…

He’s obsessed. And it is sad because the Obama policies they’re targeting made this country a better place.

He just wants to get rid of everything was created by the black guy.

First of all, so sorry about your heart attack. I’m sure it was scary and painful. I hope you can focus on getting better despite everything else going on.

Huh. Well, if the changing terminology was initiated by the GOP, the academic community bought it hook, line and sinker, because you’d be hard pressed to find a university course, text book or peer-reviewed article from the last 15 years with “global warming” in the title. From a purely scientific perspective,…

Actually no. I might have worded it badly, but I wasn’t trying to repeat what the OP said. They said the wording was changed to accommodate people who don’t understand the difference between weather (short-term) and climate (long-term). I’m saying that depending on where you are, the changes to the climate (long-term)…

My understanding as an environmental scientist is that most of the scientific community was in favor of the change in terminology (though marketing/comms people might have advised against it). Climate change might actually make some regions of the world colder, depending on what time frame you’re looking at so just…

I like to blame conservatives for every possible transgression, but I thought global warming was abandoned in favor of “climate change” because climate change might actually make some regions of the world colder, depending on what time frame you’re looking at. If the warming we currently see significantly disturbs the…

Chester generally always came off as easy-going and gregarious in media appearances, even when talking about or dealing with difficult things, so I kind of doubt the CPK episode would be any more difficult to watch than anything else he did in the last few months. Glad they’re leaving the decision up to his family…

I had no idea opossums hunt and eat snakes! Eep! I also didn’t know that they have 13 nipples. I have learned a lot about opposums today. I volunteered for a wildlife rehab for a semester during grad school. During the season I was there, it was more or less a constant stream of opposum babies whose moms had been hit…

The memo was only issued to NRCS staff.

Eh, I work in this field and am not super-concerned by this policy because, in practice, people who work on environmental issues with farmers adopted this language years ago. Farmers tend to be practical people and business men and women more than anything else. If you want them to change how they do things, you have…

I bet you’re really fun at parties, Journal of Food Research.

So cute, expecting anything about the governance of Chicago (or Illinois as a whole) to make any kind of sense.

It’s actually a portmanteau of La Crosse, WI (city of origin) and the St. Croix River, which borders La Crosse and was maybe the source of the water when the company first started.

Eh, I mean some of their stuff from before they broke into mainstream has some more“nu metal” elements than what came later. Kind of a funky, heavy “Korn-esque” bass, down-tuned heavy guitar riffs, combo of singing/screaming, DJ scratching. The bands that saw continued success past the early 00's moved away from these…

Weed makes me super paranoid and actually more anxious than normal. And I smoked more than enough to know it wasn’t just one particular strain that caused that reaction. It can impact people in different ways, though I don’t believe that weed alone could cause a mental breakdown.

The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie (along w/ meds & therapy) helped me overcome some serious depression. I went to Boston Comic Con the week after the movie came out as baby Groot and people LOVED it. It was a lot of fun but I couldn’t see, hear or speak very well.