I agree that the scientific name seems like a silly exaggeration.  Ostriches are unexpected.  But now that we know we have ostriches, I’m not so jazzed about something that’s less than 1/3 its size.

You’re right, and we already know. Ohio is one of the most segregated states in the country. Cleveland and Dayton are among the most segregated cities in the country. “Serial” put together some detailed investigations into the absurdities of Ohio. It’s easily one of the shittiest states, and that’s truly objective…

Few people are going to make that conclusion, and those people were always going to be racist anyway. Drugs are a problem in practically all sports. There was a huge investigation in baseball a while ago, affecting dozens of white players. Michael Phelps lost sponsorships over cannabis.  If anything, the stereotype is…

“Oh, you like murdering people? Sounds great! Welcome aboard!”

Y’all can go the fuck to hell. This is homophobic, and your own identity is irrelevant. This ranks just barely below the two Jezebel articles in which women authors casually referred to gay men as “faggots.” You’re bigoted garbage.

Most modern presidents are buried at museums and libraries.  Can you imagine what sort of museum/library they’re going to make for him?  

Odd that this president would pick curing AIDS when his vice president considers it a cure for homosexuality.

Even though the US doesn’t use ranked-choice voting, I’m imagining the scenarios as if we did. Once the randos like Yang finally give up, those votes will shift to other candidates. Therefore, someone who has 1% now could double to 2% overnight.  This circus is a year and a half long, and there are far too many…

This is fucking brilliant.  I can’t imagine the math they use to determine it.  8-)

One time, the US men’s soccer team organization put out a statement that they wouldn’t be giving any more statements, and the article here was a bulleted list of the players with “did not respond to request for statement.”  So... the “article” was a team roster, I guess.

That quotation is from Jezebel. And the quotation above it is from People. Neither quotation actually comes from Kathy Griffin’s mouth, typing, or publicist.  Those aren’t her words.

Do you really consider Jennifer Rubin a “centrist”? She’s solidly conservative. During George W. Bush’s presidency, she was a major cheerleader. Maybe she only seems less conservative these days because she doesn’t worship Donald Trump, but that’s not a helpful standard.

This isn’t only a matter of time. There are biological and chemical limitations woven into what it means to even be “human.” You can’t dream your way out of needs for water and lack of radiation.  As the article describes near the end, maybe the things that leave this planet will be our technology, and that’s still…

I hate that I instinctively, mentally categorize sexual assaults. But this story does give me a gut feeling that I dwell on. Hyten isn’t accused of overpowering a girlfriend. He is accused of bringing sex into the workplace. Yes, all assault is wrong. I’m just pointing out that he thinks it a good thing to do while…

Cherokee?

If we pretend that bullets haven’t been shot, then the bullets don’t even exist.

It gets worse. They want the privatized healthcare and education to be owned by Christians, and then the companies and schools can take on the values of a religion. For some minorities, and for certain services, there won’t be any options left.

You’re a little mixed up. Aspens are not “considered a single organism.” They literally are. Their root cells are capable of dividing, differentiating, and becoming trunks and leaves again. Some species are capable of this, and others aren’t. This article is describing a different phenomenon, so your analogy doesn’t…

I can’t see an evolutionary benefit to choking, and yet humans can choke.  Why do we eat, drink, and breathe out of the same opening?? The thing is, there isn’t going to be a neat reason behind every facet of existence. Most things are just because they are. It’s a consequence of some other thing in the deep past.

Cloning is different.  You’re talking about species that clone themselves.  The trees in this article are genetically distinct, but then later on become physically unioned.