I was poking around the internet, as one does, when I ran across an article entitled “Nine Ways You’re Cooking Pasta Wrong.” That seemed like a lot of ways to mess up a dish that’s often prepared by broke bachelors, so I was intrigued.
Doubtless there are some among you who are already mad at me for being so rude to this innocent woman in my title. First of all, it’s paraphrased from the…
A little over 18 months ago, this baffling object popped up on Memebase, well known for contributing nothing of value to the Internet ever. The caption that they gave for…
Two weeks ago, in my triumphant return to writing, as I am determined to keep calling it, I wrote a piece called Six Reasons You Shouldn’t Take Dietary Advice From Cavemen.…
EDIT: I’ve written a followup to this post here. Today, to kick off my triumphant return to writing, we’re going to talk about the so-called “paleo” diet. At least four people…
Back in November, Congress declared that pizza was a vegetable in a funding bill that addressed subsidization of school lunches. A rider to the bill stipulated that ice cream counts…
I would like you to look at this product and tell me what it looks like to you. Ready? Did you say that it’s candy corn? You silly, irreverent, blasphemous…
This is Elizabeth McClure. She is approximately as little fun to be around as a person can be. Now I haven’t met Elizabeth, so I’m just guessing, but here’s why.…
You remember PETA, yes? They’re the subjects of probably the angriest two posts I’ve written in almost two years of running this blog. I called them the most vicious hypocrisy…
Earlier this month, Starbucks released the Trenta in stores across the country. The Trenta is a 31-ounce cup of coffee, only for use in their iced drinks. They’ve been testing…
You’re getting older. Gone are the gallivanting days of being single, the one night stands, the keg stands, the ability to take 15 shots in a night and still function…
So when we left off, PETA was so ferociously anti-cruelty that they had stopped paying any attention to what that actually means. Here’s a few basic points that I started…
I assume you’ve heard of PETA, right? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals? Well this one’s been brewing for a while. I used to think that they were overreactive,…
