I was going to guess your acquaintance was Midwestern, too. I’ve met traveled people from MN who think that Everytown Mexican food is way too exotic, much less varieties of Asian food. Macaroni is as exotic as the pasta gets. If it’s not bland, it’s not worth eating.

This thread on Twitter a few days ago had me crying

I am reminded of years ago when me and my then-GF were having dinner at Aqua in Las Vegas and were next to some Midwestern couple who:

I hope they bring body sniffing dogs. 

Thank you for this article. It brings to mind Sinead O’Connor’s public outcry over what was happening in Ireland and abuse - and now we know deaths- of thousands of newborns and wee children right in front of the so called blind eyes of the government in collusion with the Catholic Church.

At least Gillibrand isn’t eating vanilla ice cream, though she may as well be. ANY politician who eats a corn dog near a camera is nuts. I’m kinda sad that you didn’t include a photo of John Delaney enjoying the giant slide. Whee!

I took my dog on a walk today. Saw what I thought was a pretty big, fuzzy moth nestled into some tree bark. Took my husband and our friend over to see it. They did not think it was very big.

Ha! We sound like we’re the same age. My 8th grade sex ed class had a bunch of gross STD photos.

The administration let you do this? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

“We can quibble over whether Williamson’s emotions were sincere or part of a larger grift, but they came across as genuine...”

“There is so much stigma around herpes....”

Gather closely young ones and listen to your big sis about the herp.

That description’s not dissimilar to Senator Harris’s plan that snagged all the headlines earlier this week.   A lot of the opposition to the Warren and Sanders plans is that it creates the impression that it takes people’s choices away (“I don’t want to give up my current insurance!”) - ideally, the public option/M4A…

So on Christmas Eve, I slipped a raw potato from the fridge into his stocking...

What you’re looking for is called “moderation”, and it’s not easy to sell to people.

I have to imagine that when he was a twenty-one year old homeschooled evangelical who’d never experienced any of the stuff he denounced through anything other than the lens of his parents telling him how awful it was, he was probably pretty sincere. That doesn’t make any of it less awful, but he wasn’t so much a…

Okay, I read the abstract and highlights and I’m prepared to stand by the statement that this is silly. First, they didn’t include an “other distractions” control group such as people with books or magazines - they basically did a paired t-test experiment of phone vs. no phone. If I were reviewing a comparison like…

Imo these studies* fail to control for people living in giant fucking cities. Like, sure yeah, smile and nod in smaller situations where you’re a less surrounded by abject strangers and when the smiles and nods aren’t made infinite by the hordes. Smiling and nodding in a massive city feels so RISKY though. Phones…