Laughed, then lost me at “reckless abandonment, cruelty to children.” :-(

Bagged teas don’t “bloom.” They steep. There is no leaf in them to bloom.

Of course the flavour of crush-tear-curl teas is more consistent than loose leaf. That is the entire purpose of using crush-tear-curl: consistency, a uniform product, a “one-dimensional” flavour relative to loose leaf/orthodox. (Although many…

Bagged teas don’t “bloom.” They steep. There is no leaf in them to bloom.

Of course the flavour of crush-tear-curl…

I completely agree with you that the best tea advice (or any advice having to do with food & drink, for that matter) is to trust your own taste buds.

That out of the way, if you’re drinking tea for the health benefits as well as the flavour, you may run into more issues with bagged teas. Paper teabags have bleach…

I completely agree with you that the best tea advice (or any advice having to do with food & drink, for that matter)…

I would love to see a traditional Chinese tea shop on this list.

My go-to shops are:

I would love to see a traditional Chinese tea shop on this list.

My go-to shops are:

NOTHIN TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG

Regarding those in utero chemical exposures, lead alone has been found to be a causal factor in low IQ scores. Urban environments = lots of old lead contamination in the soil from decades and decades of leaded fuel use.

Your doctor was wrong, even by American Academy of Pediatrics standards.

Internalised racism and structural inequality. Look 'em up.

Also a white person here. I've posted this list of ways to be a better ally to a few commenters. I follow it myself, and I hope it will be of use to you: http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/01/30-way…

It's not always necessary to speak. It's important to listen.

Hi, I'm also white. Here is what I do: I listen.

Here's an excellent list of 30 ways to be a better ally:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/01/30-way…

“The series was initially commissioned by NBC, but the pilot with the working title It’s Messy was released from NBC’s projects on January 27, 2012. NBC then sent the script to Fox executives who read it over that following weekend. On January 30, 2012, Fox greenlit the pilot, with Mindy Kaling attached to star.^[3]”

Huh? I’m not angry. Are you projecting?

BTW!

I can assure you I don’t think I know the first thing about you (including why you are making this about you). Having said that! I literally LOL’ed at your “You don’t know me!”, following as it did your oversharing about your race fetishes and your politics. (I can also assure you that nobody here gives a shit…

No, I didn’t tell you that when you say “censorship,” you really mean “STFU.” I told you (paraphrasing) that your telling critics not to watch the show is code for “STFU.” Which it is. (The old “Don’t like it? Don’t watch it” silencing technique is so well known that it has its own entry on the Geek Feminism Wiki: http…

Poppycock. Audiences don’t just have the freedom to decide whether or not they are going to watch a show that they find racist or sexist (by which, let’s be honest, you really mean the “freedom” to STFU). We have the freedom — the RIGHT — to critique the show in question and call out its creators for racism and…

Or don’t let humans drive them at all. Stories like this one convince me we’re better off with more automation.

I scrolled down this list thinking, “Charles De Gaulle better be on here. Charles De Gaulle better be here. Charles De Gaulle damn well better be on here.” Becoming more and more anxious that it wasn’t! And then here, at number one: Charles De Gaulle. Vindicated.

Holy shit! That pic!

Eh. If Ursula Le Guin is okay with Atwood’s resistance to her work being shoehorned into a single genre, then so am I.