Oh, bliss! :) 

Marketing these as diet-friendly is pretty silly. But... I imagine these’d be pretty prime if you stuck them in the freezer. Better crisp chocolate to peanut butter ratio.

Mr. Vulcanbookworm and I headed out into his parent’s backyard for a moment of privacy to propose during Thanksgiving. On our way out the door, his dad handed us some garden shears and said “Make yourself useful out there and bring back some branches for a centerpiece.”

Gentlemen, maybe you can help out a bit here. My husband still wears crummy ol’ Hanes boxer-briefs, but his reasoning is they’re roomy enough not to uncomfortably squeeze his package (which is, TMI alert, indeed somewhat larger than average). Any similarly-afflicted fellows have any advice on good underwear with…

Thank you for covering this! This Planned Parenthood is half an hour away from me and is one of the few places in the area to actually get affordable reproductive health services — most of the other places are those fake faith-based “clinics” that exist solely to talk you out of getting an abortion, but can’t actually…

I hear this stuff all the time from my white, 65-year-old boss, who’s the type of liberal who thought racism was basically over until Trump et al taught her otherwise. She says things like “Reconciliation can’t move forward until white people apologize and black people forgive them.” Like, no, black people are under…

That’s delightful! :) 

In a similar vein, please enjoy this book of advice on how to grow giant vegetables. Choice quotes include

People with boundless enthusiasm about a niche subject are some of my favorite people. George’s happiness about gulls is so infectious that I’ve got a giant grin on my own face. Thanks, Ryan, for sharing, and George for being a lovely human being! My afternoon just got so much brighter.

I’m just in awe at the excellent double entendre in “I Support the Girls.” (And also at the good work this woman is doing!)

Sure, the Genie’s bad, but I’m hung up on how half-assed Jasmine’s costume looks with that plain pink fabric.If you’re going to do these remakes no one asked for, at least go all-out on lavish costume porn!

Be warned that it’s almost 600 pages long (Tyra’s first draft was 1,000+ pages and her mom helped her cut it down, according to the acknowledgements) and the pacing is all over the place... but for me, the wall-to-wall zaniness made it worth the read. I’m mildly obsessed. 

I may’ve shrieked at this headline — Modelland, the book, is the most batshit thing I’ve ever read in my life, and I cannot imagine how it’ll translate into a theme park... But I sure tried. Potential attractions include:

Aw, those are cuties! 

My (way-too-white, located-in-Indiana) college’s cafeteria once labelled collard greens as “colored greens.” I remember reflexively whispering “Oh noooo....”

Worth pointing out, too, that different breeds have different ideal body conditions — from slim sighthounds to burlier bully breeds. For an extreme example, consider the azawakh, a sighthound/livestock guardian dog from West Africa. First time I saw one I was absolutely horrified, but this is genuinely how their body…

Commenters already mentioned the fact that chips are labelled by weight not volume, and that the extra air cushions chips from being crushed to crumbs. There’s a third reason, too: that’s not air.

The same seems to be true of cats, and I think part of the reason is that owners believe their pets can self-regulate their food consumption. Many people leave unlimited quantities of dry food out all the time, or give treats nonstop. While some few cats (and dogs, I suppose) seem to have naturally dainty appetites,…

It was Feb. 1, 2004. Though completely football-agnostic, my parents hauled myself (then 10) and my younger siblings to a church Super Bowl watch party at a church member’s house. There were other kids (okay). There were snacks (YES). There were devotionals before the game began (BAD).

I’ve definitely heard of that — one uses seltzer water + powdered buttermilk instead of plain milk/buttermilk. I think you’d have to go from mixing to cooking pretty quickly before all the carbonation bubbled out to get the extra fluff. Haven’t tried it myself, but would be interested to hear back if you do!
(PS: I…