You know every type of plastic has the number printed RIGHT THERE on the plastic, don’t you? You look at your item, find the number, and put it in that numbered bin. Can’t find a number? It ain’t recyclable. Stop trying to recycle it.

Oh yeah that’s true, and recycling companies also like doing less work even more because it means profit for them.

Consumers like single stream because they like doing as little as they can yet getting to still feel like they saved the planet. They can’t. It’s a big waste of everyone’s time and money. Turns out saving the planet takes actual work. Single stream is the “one trick that means you can still eat everything you ever…

And that’s why the US is so far behind pretty much every other industrialized world. It’s population can’t be bothered an genuinely gets pissy if they have to think more than half a second. Unfortunately, if you’re doing it wrong, you’re not ‘participating’ anyway... you’re just screwing things up. Far better to get…

For real. In the eighties, recycling meant driving to the recycling center with a car full of trash, and putting the paper in the paper pile and green, brown and clear glass in their own bins and only the recyclable plastic. Putting out my own recycling today, the bin was full of flies, which means some asshole in the…

Single stream recycling is a net loss for the business side of the equation. Source separated (i.e. we do it ourselves) is always more profitable for recycling. The business has largely collapsed in the last couple of years due to China halting taking a lot of our recyclables. Every fraction of a penny counts now. We…

Why would you be available to a sports league and your rapist’s employer? They’re not a a law enforcement agency 

“I believe in innocent until proven guilty, which clearly doesn’t take place in the court of social media.”

I felt like a David Attenborough narration would have helped the reader on this one.

This read like a article in an anthropological journal about some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. 

Not giving it enough due, though, is crucial when also making the argument that HBCUs require the profile boost as the continued bastion of black social mobility and excellence and the pride of our heritage. In a way the NCAA is treating the big ticket sports of football and basketball as a body farm with scant…

Maybe she’ll talk about paying student athletes when she writes an article about it.

White Conservatives: This is the way it is! If you don’t like it, start your own college!

Eh, disappointed in Hill’s article. One passing mention of kids not being paid and that’s it. She seems fine with continuing to profit off free labor so long as the schools that benefit are HBCU, which is the ass-wrong thing to say. The whole fucking system is broke and I don’t want FAMU or Florida making money off…

Mmmmm....depends on what apps you’re running.

I love this poem and I have a shirt that just says on back the emperor of ice-cream. When people ask me what it means I tell them “doodle, doodle dee, wubba, wubba wubba.”

It is not. It was first published in 1923, years before Nash first published anything. Joe Fulkerson is most likely the author. 

This is Just to Say

I have eaten
the kids
that were in
the backyard

Who you
probably left for
three to
five minutes

Forgive me
I am thirty to
fifty
feral hogs

I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.

Well, of course I have Scottish friends so I naturally thought of this one: