Didja really have to choose an image of a bike with training wheels? Training wheels are shit a terrible way for a child to learn to ride a bike. Balance bikes are the way to go. And you can turn any bike into a balance bike*: lower the seat so the child can push along with their legs to propel themselves, and remove…

Another reason to avoid getting sunburned: Hell’s Itch.

Should have been the lead photo.

In the Hot Sauce division, Valentina Extra Hot is the king. Packs a big punch but still manages to have actual taste:

In the Hot Sauce division, Valentina Extra Hot is the king. Packs a big punch but still manages to have actual taste:…

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Next on Evil Week: How to run a beloved community into the ground. All you need is a website, passionate readers, auto-start video ads, and a shitty mantra. Just pulling things out of the air, let’s use “Stick to Sports.”

Or don’t, since studies say they do nothing.

Or don’t, since studies say they do nothing.

This is such a tiny nitpick/annoyance and doesn’t have anything to do with Lifehacker (in this instance) or Nick Douglas.

I like that idea! (Strangely enough, I do have a writer working on a piece about favorite toddler books that won’t make parents crazy when they have to read them over and over. But I’ll add parenting books to the topics list, too.)

So I was listening to a recent John Hodgeman podcast where a woman and her mother were fighting over whether the former’s grandmother is more properly called “Mokka” or “Monka,” and thought it would be fun to convince my kids that my mother and father are called, respectively, “Santa” and “Satan.” Does this sound like…