Yeah, I thought of that after I hit “publish.” Need to control for those star trails, though they look nice if well done.

A better way to frame the discussion around vaping is the risk of vaping versus the risk of smoking cigarettes, versus the risk of not doing either. Not doing either is best, of course. All the evidence points to smoking cigarettes as being the worst. So is vaping a happy medium?

If you get a camera with a big sensor and a cheap piece of telephoto lens, you can take a deep field space photograph with a long exposure. Then zoom in and be amazed at what you capture.

Cheaper, but no physician worth their salt will do anything based on these results. So be careful if you do end up showing a result that you’re a carrier for something. A physician will re-order everything through more CLIA-compliant laboratories to confirm, which means a double-dip in the pocketbook, especially if…

Pop quiz: Decorticate or decerebrate?

“I’m thankful I’m not related to you in any way possible. Addendum: Not thankful we’re from the same branch of the evolutionary tree.”

The rest of Asians or the rest of illegal immigrants?

This kind of redefines the whole concept of “giving head,” doesn’t it?

“Latinx”? I understand the ungendered language in Spanish, since we use As and Os for female and male gendered nouns and adjectives, respectively. But we don’t use that in English, do we? I thought the adjective was “Latin,” as in “Latin America.” What, it’s “Latinx America” now?

I’m sorry. I’m not writing my responses well enough. (English is my third language.) I didn’t say that having an immigration policy is weird. Having an inequitable immigration policy that is antiquated and treats people like animals is weird. (Unless other countries have similar immigration policies where people are…

You’re not attacking my argument. You’re presenting a different argument — that every country in the world has an immigration policy, a truism — as if that’s what I’m arguing against. Where do I go from that? How can I argue against a truism?

It’s not “rewarding” anything. It’s just a matter of fact. People who are being persecuted, live in a war zone, can’t get food to eat or a roof to live under, they don’t get to weigh the legalities of immigrating in search of a better life.

Nice strawman. Leftover from Halloween, is it?

“What part of ‘illegal’ do ‘those people’ not understand?” the xenophobes will ask. They are the children of the people who, during the Jim Crowe Era, asked why Black people didn’t understand segregatory laws. “The law is the law!” they’ll cry out.

Head over to CDC’s reports on the ACIP vaccine recommendations. They have pretty good explanations for why the recommendations are the way they are. It boils down to disease severity, spread, cost of the vaccine, logistics, and probability of exposure.

The worst parts of the Bible. That’s all you had to write. The worst parts of the Bible.

Looking good so far... I’m on pins and needles.

And... When you say “oops miscarriage” walk over to the Social Security Administration and get Social Security death benefits for the person you just lost. Let hilarity ensue.

300 homicides in 307 days. That’s 0.977 homicides per day since 2017. That’s on pace for 357 (5.7 per 10,000 residents) for the year if it doesn’t slow down. That will crash through the previous record of 344 (5.5 per 10,000 residents). The epidemic that started in 2015 continues.

Everyone needs to chill out. A little vinegar in a spray bottle sprayed from your backyard and aimed at the sky takes care of the chemtrails. Like, they’ll be gone in a few hours.