You catch colds in cold wet weather because you avoid the cold and wet weather (which increases your contact with other humans, which in turn pass on their illness to you). To compound this effect, everyone else is doing the same, which results in more illnesses.

Indeed. My family caught a cold from a visit to Houston in April, likely from that kid at the children’s museum with the green snot hanging out of his nose.

Meh, I have had Oreo for some time, you aren’t really missing much. What new features it has, is negated by weird occasional bugginess

Wow, what a great example of how royally fucked up our medical system is... a random combination of “that’s just the age range they studied”, “insurance won’t cover it”, and “you’ll need an extra booster” gets mistranslated as “you can and should only get the vaccine if you’re 26 or younger.”

Deregulation decreases increases cost and increases decreases quality and quantity of service.

Great article. There are modern extrathoracic negative pressure ventilators that are comparatively small and unobtrusive. They’re phenomenally expensive to use and service, but luckily we don’t live in some kind of crazy dystopia in which only the fortunate and wealthy have access to modern medical technology and…

the average total compensation for subway managers has grown to nearly $300,000 a year.

You could see this coming from a mile away. Show us the receipts about the extortion or shut up—at least for now. The irony of how un-self-aware she is, for someone whose entire raison d’être is about self-examination, never ceases to amaze me.

I like a lot of HBO series so I figured I give Girls a try.

I believe the family she moved to when she was 14 was super-religious. She’s a super religious woman.

...and this is all we’ll be saying about this issue.

“Based on what we white women know about our white, male friend, we’re going to accuse a person of color of straight up lying to get money.”

“The vibe was very much like, ‘Do I want to f— it? Is it wearing a … yep, it’s wearing a tuxedo,” Dunham continued. “I’m going to go back to my cell phone.’” It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, ‘This…

Show biz makes my flesh crawl, and I’m glad I have a library card.

Imagine now that her name is Gerald and you have to spend the rest of your life thinking, “Yea she’s pretty much perfect... But why the fuck did her parents name her Gerald?”

0-60 runs in a prepped vehicle are different than 100,000 miles in consumers hands on real roads

Thanks for making an article about my bitter comment from last night, Tom. Some of us still care about using terms properly.

Because American airlines do not wish to.

Once, when I was on a Spirit Flight, a man when a man started having chest pains. So the flight attendant made an announcement and asked if there was a doctor on the plane.

Was going to point out this same thing. Goan vindaloo is also often very sour (from the vinegar), which you don't get a lot of in the US. Sour and spicy is an excellent combination and one you don't get a lot of here.