I hope you’ve listened to “The Dream” podcast.  Season 1 is all about MLMs and season 2 tackles “wellness” scams.  It’s a great listen.

I don’t know about taste, but thanks to the excellent book “The Indifferent Stars Above” I do know that the ripped guys were some of the first to die in the Donner Party. The guys did most of the physical labor, both on the trail and once they were trapped plus generally being bigger (on average) would require more…

First have her say “Just what I wanted!” when she sees the bike. Now you can infer that she asked for it, debated buying one, wanted one, etc. Second, you show her on a video call with her sister saying “That thing will be a clothesrack in a month.” Now you’ve got a reason for her to be vlogging this experience. Make…

She was great in The Americans as well.

As someone who hikes in similar areas of VA, that one creeped me out good.

Poor Luna, poor Mom and poor twin caught up in this mess.  I can’t imagine looking at some guy who immediately ran to the (right wing) press AND has a well-documented history of lying through his teeth and finding him credible in the least.

I was a country club lifeguard for five summers. Free food! Lots of sun! In our downtime we played Euchre and the club let us split the proceeds from swimming lessons as a bonus. Even better, we each clocked 60-75 hours per week in the six or so busiest weeks of the summer, so I made tons of OT cash too. It was truly…

My Mom worked in my high school and I never, ever went up to visit her during school hours. I simply saw her at the beginning of the day when we drove in together and then met up with her for a ride at the end when it worked with my after school stuff. I’ve never had anything like this happen before or since but one…

Bercow has a GREAT voice.  That man could have been an actor or voice-over talent if he weren’t in politics.

I really need to work “corn cobs” into my lexicon as an insult.  It’s wonderful.

My friend and I got kicked out of youth group for suggesting this (seemingly) obvious fact.  I’m still proud of it.

Wanna know my 100% tried-and-true, surefire, guaranteed way to fit your fat ass into a wedding dress?

I literally cross K St. every damn day on my walking commute to the Metro and I would be hard pressed to name a bar that doesn’t stock at least one, if not a couple, cheap domestic brews. This is straight nonsense.

In my house growing up, swearing was seen as a healthy way to vent feelings of frustration. Swearing at someone (unless clearly joking) was a no-no. Swearing about the state of things in general was (is) fair game. I can’t think of any more appropriate reason to be swearing right now.

My favorite fried chicken place’s platter is two legs and two thighs...no white meat in sight. Gah, it’s so good.

This is a prime candidate to be covered by the “How Did This Get Made?” podcast.

There is a great book called “Sex at Dawn” that talks all about how humans didn’t really evolve for monogamy.  Before property ownership was a thing, we probably lived in groups and everyone had sex with everyone else and the kids that resulted from that were the group’s kids and that was that.  The thing that changed…

If I were super rich and had a kid who’d still hustled and worked hard to make something of themselves despite having tons of money and a powerful family to fall back on, you can be damn sure that’s the person I’d worry least about inheriting my fortune.

“Helter Skelter” is a great read. It may be the only book my Dad read cover-to-cover in my lifetime (he was big on magazines and newspapers...not books).

I sort of see us as a victim of our own success in this case. All of science and medicine keeps marching forward and making progress and so lots of new diseases and symptoms and syndromes are discovered and named and treated, etc. So now we’re in a spot where everyone wants to know...why did XYZ…