Form follows function.  It always was a hollow sentiment.

That includes a “witch dish” called Bagna càuda,

There’s a fair chance you’re within a few miles of some stuff that arguably isn’t. Plasma is a hot mix of ionized nuclei and electrons, and so isn’t made of chemicals in any meaningful sense. If nothing else, no nucleus in a plasma is chemically bound to anything else, and no bond can form and last long enough for the…

Any alternative to filling your body with more chemicals is a net win.

A trade group representing mom-and-pop landlords opposes the plan,

Did you do as much cocaine as Bowie did?

(Replying to you rather than to the confused soul who said “I wasn’t necessary because the government didn’t force it on people.”): the US Supreme Court settled the mandatory vaccination question in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

Wasn’t there band of idiots who did a song entitled “A Waggle Dance is So Much Better When the Queen is Crying”?

House cats are social animals, like small lions rather than small tigers. One cat alone in a house, without even humans around, is not good for that cat.

I think that according to Pratchett, you usually stand up and brush your Self off first.

CRUD. I screwed up, and a two character cut and paste error radically changed the meaning of a sentence in there.

“So many” remains low compared to the number of people getting the implants—about three hundred thousand in 2017, for example.

“The new web site?  I have a modest proposal...”

Unfortunately, the figures are paywalled. However, some are available in the video at https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2019/04/10/peds.2018-1988

I guess it beats the days when everyone was wondering SPAWN??!?

I never noticed that before.

Of course Republicans complain they don’t get good jobs after they leave public “service”. They’re Republicans. Give them a solid silver space shuttle and they’ll complain that it isn’t gold. Bleating that they’re getting a raw deal is part of the schtick.

And what’s so bad about plastic bags going to landfills? Well, besides sitting there for several years to decompose (some sources cite anywhere from ten to one thousand years, but that’s unverified), they end up in our waterways, too.

Still, if you’ve been wondering whether the top 1 percent pays their fair share in taxes

Well, what I usually want to read is a justification to say “Screw it” and order a pizza.  Going from that to what you should write is above my pay grade.