Defunct frat house has indoor squash court... The esteemed Mr. Greenwood was on the Cornell squash team... Coincidence? Nah. Glad they’re shutting that shit down. I’m also an alum (‘04).

This! Open air junk yards are a known environmental hazard. Commercial junk yards need to obtain and comply with stormwater permits from their state dept. of environment. And if his neighbors do get a bunch of weird cancers/birth defect, etc. from crazy shit in their water from Ron’s yard, guess who’s getting sued?…

Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh-oo-awah

Random thought, but it’s amusing how he always writes The WALL in all caps. Is it an acronym for something? Wall Against Locomotión de Los Mexicanos? Wasteful Attempt to Limit Locomotion? Anyone got a better one?

Bet the people who asserted that “lupus” was SG’s PR shorthand for “drug rehab” feel like shit now!

My old hair dresser before I moved owns her salon. She donated a kidney to the husband of one of her employees who she didn’t even know that well because they were having trouble finding a match and the husband was dying. She also ran the Boston marathon for charity...twice (she didn’t finish the first time due to the…

That’s too close to Amber Rose’s shtick for Kimmy’s taste.

I mean, reusing plastic bottles is better than not reusing them. But for real change, developed nations need to focus on using less unnecessary stuff, period.

Thanks for that info! While we do know what people are dying of, we don’t necessarily know what causes it all the time, especially when it comes to cancer.

I didn’t know about that paper retraction. I hadn’t read the original paper, in fact, but I do remember it being cited a lot when all of the state micro-bead bills…

One of my professors (environmental science) told me he would never, under any circumstances, drink a hot beverage from a styrofoam cup due to the leaching of styrenes. That had me shook.

Point taken about the somewhat alarmist tone being taken by this outlet and a lot of other environmental research non-profits. But do you actually know that accumulation of plastic particles of these small sizes is not harmful to people or other animals? I thought that impacts were still largely unstudied. As the…

They chlorinate drinking water for a reason ;)

One of the largest sources in drinking water is probably polyester fibers in clothing. When you wash a fleece jacket or blanket, it releases millions of tiny filaments of plastic fiber, which are too small to be captured by your machine’s regular filter (though apparently there are third party filters you can add that…

Heh, can you imagine a dry cleaner asking a guy bringing a tux in for pressing if he was using the tux to marry a woman or a man? Or if the customer brought two tuxes in... “Excuse me, sir, is this second tux for your father? Best man? Brother? Or are you (whispers) *homosexual?*” Bigoted minds want to know!

Yeah, I mean the real issue isn’t that they’re buying people out this year but that they’ve been doing it frequently since the Great Recession hit whilst not back-filling or hiring any new positions. They’re effectively waging a war of attrition against these agencies. EPA being at its lowest level of staffing since…

Fascinating theory! I was most miserable in the fifth grade when I wore a lot of sweat pants and turtle necks. Now I freaking hate turtle necks and can’t get on the whole athleisure trend. You might just be on to something!

Ha, you think Philly.com is bad, try PennLive. What a hell hole.

Yeah, I’ve been wearing trouser-cut, straight-cut, and flares pretty much universally for years. I look like I stepped out of the late 90's? Ask me if I care! Signed, a fellow pear-shaped ass

My organization is currently waiting on an EPA grant under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for about $300k. It was recommended for funding by the peer review panel and rank-and-file EPA employees. It is probably somewhere in Konkus’ queue right now.