Husband: Um, can I tell people that our love burned too bright and too quickly? Kind of a Candle in the Wind deal?

WTF. Really? Just paint the damn picture and keep your political commentary out of it. Jesus. Can we repaint the official portrait of Reagan to make commentary on how his AIDS policies killed thousands of people?

Sorry. IT'S A TOOMAH.

The same thing happened to me. Now I can't unsee black and blue.

It was white for the longest time and then I went to clean the litter box in a room with different lighting and it was fucking blue when I came back. So maybe try changing the lightning.

NO BUT

The dress was white and gold and then I looked at it again and it turned black and blue am I having a stroke

I used to wear scarves, but now that I've discovered neck gaiters (as someone mentioned upthread) I am not looking back! (Fellow Minnesotan here). They are less bulky and can be pulled up over your ears, nose, & mouth.

This. Wet cold is the worst. I'd take a dry 20 over a wet 40 any day.

I read this response thinking you were exaggerating some. Then I read the article. His ideas remind me of super hero origin stories, but for plague. And Ebola and HIV.

Did you actually read the article? He's proposing that it wasn't fleas or rats, it was the DNA found on comets that supercharges the virus. He is a firm believer in comets carrying diseases that then kill people. He thinks that Ebola and HIV are from comets.

Since recent DNA analysis of the remains of plague victims in England has proven that it was, in fact, Y. pestis, I would have hoped this kind of nonsense would stop being promulgated.

Ah, Mike Baillie. I've actually taught his work. Admittedly, it was in a class on medieval pseudo-history. He came right after Fomenko's New Chronology and just before "1001 Candidates for the 'Historical' King Arthur".

It's sort of frustrating, because the interaction of big, atmospheric-and-climate-impacting events on the spread of diseases is a valid and still relatively unexplored topic. There's plenty of reasons to think that things like asteroids or (more terrestrially) volcanic eruptions can contribute to the spread of…

Yeah, I'm sorry but that article was the most alarmist, fact-challenged piece of crap I've seen in a very long time. Please disregard it.

Seriously, people. You can use Google and 30 seconds to find out exactly, precisely how infectious that specific strain of the plague is.