Non-organic does not mean “no pesticide” for pete’s sake. It means that the pesticide that does get used doesn’t have an adherent in it that makes it cling to the plant.

Weird, its not like I said “median per capita annual income on the island is $53K” or something equally indicative of per capita income.

The median per capita annual income on the island is $53K. Who do you think lives there year round, and what do you think they do for work? Who is doing your laundry, or slinging burgers, or fixing the siding on your house every two weeks when it blows off from a Nor’easter? Who is supplying the scallops and bass and…

It may surprise people not from here, but there are areas of deep and unrelenting poverty in MA, especially among year-round residents of those vacation destinations. There is quite a bit more to our state than just the Berkshires, Amherst, and inside 128.

The relative wealth of Nantucket is skewed high due to multi-million-dollar summer homes owned by people who are not from there. Nantucket, MV, and the Cape natives are very much “working class”, with extremely high opioid addiction rates; this happened before the rich assholes from New York show up in the summer, my…

Imagine having Sharon Stone be mom-mad at you? That would be hell on earth. Those kids better get their shit together.

I’m back to Duolingo for it, I only have grammar-book vocab left. I do remember tearing my hair out over figuring out the seabhu so I figured I’d at least give a tiny explanation for why there are so many consonants that you never hear in Irish.

Cancer, aneurysm, blood clot, heart attack, stroke...

Oh FAW loo-uh, more or less. The “h” softens the preceding consonant, so depending on the consonant (and the region of Ireland you’re in), it can make the consonant silent or aspirated (like a gutteral “h”), or turn it into a “v” or “w” sound. Examples:

That sounds appalling.

If they’re eating a Happy Meal for every meal that’s a problem. If they eat one once a week, eat normal food the rest of the week, and run around like little kids do, they’ll be fine.

Well this is a bummer, that’s my meal of choice if I’m on the road. A Happy Meal is the only way I can get a 12oz Coke (which is really about 10oz with the ice). The whole thing is the perfect size, especially if they give me a choice of extra fries instead of fruit slices.

God(s), this was a great movie.

I don’t get the hate for this movie. I thought it was an enjoyable yarn, with a really good cast. Sure, it could have been better but jesus not everything is meant to be a genre-exploding masterpiece. Its OK to just have an enjoyable hour and a half (seriously, this thing is a nice short tidy movie) of good design,…

Didn’t John Ritter die of a regular old heart attack?

After she was nearly killed in an accident caused by his deliberate actions? No.

Really? His arrogant negligence tried to kill his leading actress. That seems like as good a reason as any for him to not work anymore. What do you think of John Landis?

L. Bob Rife?

Its not affirmatively tagged with your identity, however, and therefore fairly useless to anyone who happens upon your dirty kleenex in the trash.

Second-wave feminism is the opposite of what you assert; its the birthplace of Radical Feminism. Second-wave feminism was Dworkin and Brownmiller, et al., who produced some fairly extreme positions about sex and men. #MeToo is fits very well into their worldview, although both of them take it to some pretty out-there…