I guess that's our bad for not being caught up...but damn! I can't binge watch this one because it's so damned heavy. Spoiler :(

It’s like he’s a bad person and his eyes are trying to get away.

Hey Hey someone knows how to read a chart! You should put your app in at Gawker and give them a little help.

Exactly. The author did not bother to actually read the forecast and the description of what the numbers mean. She just saw a map with a big swath of reddish colors and thought “hot, absurdly hot, everywhere, ohmigod, that’s enough to publish an alarmist screed, right?”

“NOAA’s seasonal forecasts start with the assumption that for any random summer or winter, there are three possible climate outcomes—temperature or precipitation that is well above normal (upper third of the climatological record), near normal (middle third), or below normal (lower third)—and they are each equally…

I don’t get it. If there’s a 30% chance that my state will be hotter than normal, doesn’t that mean there’s a 70% chance that it will be either colder than normal or normal?

The only problem is that it’s absurdly hot in Nebraska and Kansas in normal years.

No, but all of my other concerns have been covered by the other commenters. I’m not trying to make a joke either, but it strikes me as odd that the child already had juice in her diet at such a young age. My mind ran with it in quite a few directions. Should’ve known better, gotta stay in a tight line over here at…

i want to go to there

Rain is not actually promised until the end of the Age of Aquarius is reached, some twenty-one hundred years from now. And then it isn’t promised, but expected based on projected global warming from current aridity, which comes from the cooling of the last time everything was wiped out by excessive thermal energy…

If I had some wine while I was pregnant it doesn’t mean I don’t care about my child’s welfare or that I blanch at changing my behavior. It means that I considered all of the information out there and I made a calculus about the likelihood of a negative outcome and I came to a reasonable if not universally held…

False equivalence. There is a big difference between a bartender letting someone get blackout drunk and then drive, and giving a pregnant woman a glass of wine. It hasn’t been proven that small amount of alcohol harms the fetus.

That’s no different than saying we should waive our right to sue the bartender if we get alcohol poisoning or the convenience store guy if we get lung cancer. We have a right to get drunk or smoke if we want to. If there is some insane person out there who would sue for any of those things, a jury gets to weigh…

You already do. Alcohol and cigarette manufacturers are not liable for any damage you do to yourself. Why would they suddenly be responsible for your fetus? That’s why the signs everywhere in bars and on booze and cigarettes.

How generous of you to not have a problem when I have a glass once in awhile.

THANK YOU

I get you girl, I really do. Women absolutely SHOULD change aspects of their lifestyles upon becoming pregnant.

How often do these cases happen? Genuinely curious.