Since this is somewhat political, am I allowed to note that this happened, today?

I don’t get this. (Though to be fair I’m not trying very hard since THE NIH PAYS MY FUCKING SALARY). Is it just a great big middle finger to everyone who’s educated? To people who actually improve our country? A huge portion of NIH research is into cancer. You’d think these old selfish fucks would at least want decent…

I’ve been reading articles where Trump voters talk about how this health care will screw them but then say they are not sorry for voting for Trump. This reminds me of that experiment that time when they gave a rat a choice between pushing a button to get food or pushing a button to activate electrodes in his brain…

“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for…

Sometimes I am overwhelmed with the absurdity. A bunch of parasites evolve from the ocean and subsist on this blue and green space-floating sphere. As though the destruction of the (planetary) host were not enough, we then decide to turn on each other. For no reason at all. We create random borders which we label as…

Oh, they exist, they’re just not referred to as ‘leaks’. It’s more like “Hey there...can I email you something?” 

Jesus Christ, the guy that introduced the bill is an employee of Mettiki Coal.

Marijuana demonification is an Old White Guy thing. When a friend’s grandson went off the rails (hint: he’s on some serious drugs and also has severe mental health issues, probably schizophrenia), my dad blamed it all on pot. My husband and I tried to inform him that pot.doesn’t.work.like.that. He still doesn’t get…

It is 2017, we must stop litigating marijuana. The rank hypocrisy of a culture in which we are inundated with positive and affirming messages about alcohol and demonize every thing else is pure folly. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t marry someone of the same gender. Don’t like marijuana? Don’t consume it. Problem…

+1 “fancy diarrhea clinics.” I shall call mine “The Runs Wellness Resort.”

Also the exact three criteria one would need to master to deal with well-done steaks (with ketchup, of course)

Wow, in my day rich people simply raked their money into piles and burned it.

Totally agree. I also believe he let Rachel go because he knew damn well she was too good for him and was ready for something he wasn’t. He had to pick Vanessa because their breakup will be less devastating.

Dunno. Other artists who have some clout (I do not know who else is in the lineup) could refuse to perform, thereby making a stink and causing SXSW to take more responsibility for its international acts in the future. SXSW could itself file a formal complaint with the IBC, since it sounds like the vast majority of…

Is this hardline autocracy or simple unfettered chaos? I’m tending towards the latter.

loved that show - i want to visit Kentucky just to go have a beer at some bar in Harlan County, but i’d leave before sunset.

That’s where the mountain time trial on a nice day is key. Six hours of meat, cheese, bread, and booze? Sign. Me. Up. Also, the local farmers didn’t mind us peeing in their trees.

As entertained as I am by the gal at the forefront of this gif, the real star is the dude staring around the corner of the machine.

Do you know what the hardest street food to eat is? An ice cream cone.

Cycling time trial in the mountains is my number one choice:

1) Picnic in the mountains
2) Everyone has beer, wine, and booze.
3) Bonus points for being in a part of the world where meats, cheeses, and breads are plentiful and cheap
4) Make friends with people speaking all sorts of languages (where the common tongue is…