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The NTSB wants to lower the legal driving blood alcohol content to .05 from .08. This hasn’t proved to be as popular as I would have guessed, though it appears most commenters at OTB approve. No surprise, but I’m not… Continue Reading →

So today was Lain’s wellcheck: the periodic visits just to make sure that everything is progressing as it should. Everything came out aces, but only after some real turbulence. Though Clancy is usually the one that takes Lain in for… Continue Reading →

Russell Foster has a good piece in the New Scientist about teenagers and sleeping: The biology of human sleep timing, like that of other mammals, changes as we age. This has been shown in many studies. As puberty begins, bedtimes… Continue Reading →

States with the largest and/or most: Vermont, New Mexico, South Dakota, Oregon, Maine, Washington, Arkansas, West Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming. States with the smallest and/or least: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Utah, Nebraska, Illinois, Maryland, California, Minnesota, Rhode Island

Our former landlords have informed us that they’re keeping most of the deposit, possibly all of it. On account of our apparent culpability regarding the piping. On the upshot, the house is getting new piping! Yay.

Health: [H1] Dave Schuler’s thoughts on obesity are worth reading. Southerners may not be fatter than the average American so much as they are more honest about their fatness. [H2] Conventional wisdom is that skipping breakfast is a bad dietary… Continue Reading →

Today marks the annual Congressionally-mandated ritual of disrespecting the Constitution in the name of pleasing the pious.

The grill’s been getting a fair amount of work. Did turkey burgers. Did ground beef burgers. Did a fish burger with that last piece of tilapia. Turns out, that spreadable cheese works as a nice substitute for tartared mayonnaise on… Continue Reading →