Yes, CO2 is a mild greenhouse gas, but the scale of the increase in CO2 is ridiculously minuscule.

Lets say you wanted to represent the composition of the atmosphere and call out the change in CO2 on a standard 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. It would be super easy to represent nitrogen and oxygen, but you'd be hard…

This graph is a perfect case study in how to misrepresent statistical data. It is true that 2014 was the hottest year since we started keeping records, but we started keeping records at one of the coldest periods in recent history. If this graph went back 100 years further, we'd see that the temperatures dropped…

Gonna be more like

Yeah, I'm sure it's not at all true.

If this were anyone other than Ayn Rand, I'd say the response was justified... Someone who you don't know decides to ask you for a large amount of money and expects you fork it over because you're related... kinda shady. Don't ask strangers for loans. I'm sure Rand would have treated a friend the same way, tho.

Step 1: Realize kids aren't people so they don't matter.
Step 2: Enjoy life instead.

I'm one of those who finds it torturous. It hurts and doesn't ever make me laugh. Does make me punch and kick though... so that's kinda the intended evolutionary effect, right?

I agree that poverty removes some options. For example, I know someone who has messed up his credit so badly (because of a lack of money and poor practices) that he can't get an apartment, so he lives in an extended-stay hotel at 50% more than he would have to pay if he got an apartment. He is a good person. I…

I tried but your mom was hogging them all :(

In some cases it is. Most of the time it's just a combination of bad luck and bad financial practices. There are, of course, the rare instances where someone is just totally screwed over by everyone they encounter, and that's where charity comes in to save the day. Poor people (in America) aren't poor because they…

LOL, thanks, man. That headline is the greatest thing in the world.

"letting people have even the barest glimmer of what could be called a treat goes a long way to helping" And there's the crux of our poverty problem. Everyone believes that they shouldn't be uncomfortable. Being poor sucks. It SHOULD be uncomfortable because it's a bad situation and the discomfort is there to tell…

I've been homeless, too. I know that once you get into a bad situation, stuff gets more expensive and your options get limited. I get that. Fast food is still a luxury. If you're homeless, you can't cook food, but there are plenty of things that you can buy at the grocery store that you don't need to cook that are…

You should be able to buy whole chickens for around $1 per pound. It takes no time at all to cut it up. I usually use the breasts and thighs for one meal (family of 5 here), then throw the rest of the chicken in a pot with carrots, celery and onions for chicken soup for the next night and left overs for lunch. You…

She doesn't think that McDonald's is fabulous food, but if you're poor, eating out ANYWHERE is a luxury. If you can afford to eat at McDonald's, you're not really poor. Real poor people eat rice and beans and are grateful for the beans. If you don't understand this, you've never been poor.

The incestuous implications of that are... disturbing...

Great article. I'm a little disappointed (not much, because overall the article is pretty great) that there was no mention of fiber or water. Both are essential to sustained weight loss and health.

The problem with both counting calories and macros is that it assumes that all calories and macros are the same...…

Sounds great for the morbidly obese. Not so much for anyone else. Bile acids, if not absorbed by fiber, can (and do) enter the blood stream and the accumulate. There is a strong correlation between bile acid accumulation in the breast tissue and breast cancer. The gut is also not just an inert organ. It has…

Excuse me? They are straw persons. Do you live in the 50's or something?

I usually just order them on the interwebs from feminist forums. My favorite one is the "All heterosexual sex is rape" model, followed in a close second by the "Men should have their genitals cut off for wanting to look at women naked" line. …

As an aside, Pirate Carnage is also measured in R values.