podfish, i think i love you.

some of us have specialized in rut upholstery--and o lord the range of styles and comfort levels!

In the vituperative days following the election I was most jarred by the demonization of one side against the other (and to a lesser degree but still true, in my opinion), vice versa. Wondering how...

If safety's a priority--and it sure sounds like it is--she should just get down to the sheriff's office and get that restraining order. no lawyer needed.

This is one of the funniest things i've seen in years. Well...a while.

"self masturbation"???? maybe i've been missing out on something even more interesting...

These are too funny--even if they're bogus, I laughed like crazy. Honestly who doesn't love a good insult?

"deemed" by exactly whom?

Well...just to report in from the peanut gallery, you two made MY evening ever so much more excellent. I'm happy to bask in your civility.

kathy

um....finding this woman is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel??

Oh dear Moon, what really good intentions!!!! But as a mom of one now-grown, and advocate for hundreds, of special needs kiddos I must say: Au contraire. In many cases they ARE weird and...

Dusty has hit on one of my too-many linguistic pet peeves. "So" comes through to me as yet another arrogant millennial assumption that they already have our attention, and that whatever comes after...

You get the same 4/1 proportion in AD/HD and Autism, and as far as I know no one is sure why. Some postulate that the little girl fetus is somehow more resistant; others postulate that the little...

Sandy's post could not have better illustrated the complex, tragic tangle of FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder INCLUDES the tiny number of people who have FAS--Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which...

Thanks for engaging with this slippery subject!!! Actually there's a ton of the most solid research on the subjects you raise below. As someone whose main role is translational, I keep pretty up to...

I just realized I wrote something really similar 6 months ago. This time, let me add: we'd welcome anyone who wants to join forces to bring this issue out of the fog and into adequate public...

Since I retired a year ago to work on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, I've been a little surprised at the reactions of my friends here in the heart of wine country when I raise the issue. Many...

One of my all-time favorite books--hilarious, poignant, fantastical and real.
kathy

if you can get to compostela and mar de jade....GO THERE!!

T Larry 's response is more up my alley. I have little patience though with the obviously-Indian ones who say "My name is Chip Jackson (or some other SO WHITE name)"; how are you today?" and so I...

I can't find this post and am pretty sure I didn't make it up. 95% sure still leaves some room for doubt though...

There was a photo of a long-haired, nice-smile, grownup woman whose skills...

And...if they have been supported by Soros, you're thinking the influence wielded would be--what, pressure to make the world yet more transparent? I mean--we know some influence (Koch bros.) aims...

Barry, I've wanted to say this for a long time. There is a difference between going onto a business directory, even with reviews, and asking for people's enthusiastic recommendations.

a HUGE...

thanks for this info and point of view...but for god's sake keep those apostrophes locked up unless THERE'S A POSSESSIVE OR A CONTRACTION IN NEED of one.

Zachary, thanks so much for speaking up. This must have been unimaginably awful for you. If you have any inclination to shed light on what happened, I know lots of us would really welcome it--many...

I'm reposting this under a new title--Prenatal Alcohol Damage--and would love to hear from others as well as Shandi (thanks, Shandi) about their experiences, impressions, thoughts...even arguments. ...

While we're on the subject of alcohol and its multifarious damages--and I speak as a happy imbiber--we should not overlook the effect of prenatal exposure. Not every fetus so exposed will take a big...

Giant YES to all that Jonathan says. I do wonder, with all the water used, what has happened to the aquifer and whether that affects the springs (i assume it does).

kathy

I posted yesterday with much certainty that STUFF is not needed at this point. But after an hour or so on the various FB pages, it looks like there are lots of donations still coming in, lots of...

I keep reading about people's immediate, big-hearted gathering-up of STUFF to send for the Valley Fire people...also reading the Red Cross' and other insiders' pleas NOT TO SEND STUFF...seems like...

This is a hard situation...being taken advantage of ongoingly. I think I'd have a sit-down with them, maybe a mediated one with a neutral other person, and find out what's in the way of timely...

"self-designated" being, to my mind, the dead give-away

I live in Sonoma and love our fast-shrinking undeveloped land. A Chinese group has bought 186 acres of the loveliest pieces of open space along Highway 12, right by Lawndale--with plans to develop a...

That was a fantastic documentary--really made me less than enthusiastic about the recent incarnations of BBs. (Not because of Burt! But because of the interloper.)

Thank you Mr. Fish. I keep coming back to my previous point about gun control. Would it be fair to say that ALL anti-vaxxers would oppose banning semi-automatic weapons (or whatever they're...

Speaking as a proponent, I would suggest an alternate motivation, much less conspiracy-worthy: common sense. I know that sounds glib and maybe insulting--but it's the truth, for me and for everyone...

With thanks to Rustie for putting it so well and so thoroughly. I wondered too, when I read about the new version of the hospital, HOW ON GOD'S (formerly) GREEN EARTH will this be paid for! It does...

quote from rosa koire:

". We are making common cause with others to end UN social engineering and communitarianism." --not exactly unbiased.

yeah well you know those ama shills...probably getting rich off the vaccines.

This is a terrific article and you're right--it DOES seem to be happening, and lots of people are talking about it. But I think this quote from it directly expresses the writer's attitude:
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Rosanne keeps this falsehood going: "Mosher was kicked out of Stanford for exposing forced abortions in China", without checking into the facts.

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Your point is a logical one. But it misses the fact that the youngest children can't be vaccinated til they're at the right age (which is 12 months for the mmr, if i read the chart right) leaving...

ok, i did google that...and here's what popped up practically first, from Snopes:

https://www.snopes.com/politics/business/sorosferguson.asp
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There are stories circulating which state that George Soros funded the Ferguson protests ... if true, why? ... I'm still trying to verify this

REALLY????? Of COURSE THERE ARE STORIES...

Hi Alex,

you say

"When you add the star wars level biological weaponry capability, once you are injected, you are even more of a sitting duck of their will and high-tech triggers and no...

"Besides the easily confirmable ingredient dangers and their suspicious agendas, there's snowballing massive profit but that's not the primary intent. The many faceted agendas of biological...

just one tiny editorial quibble: you really can't call others psychotic and then condemn name-calling.

I guess i see it this way. Yes there are freedoms, and freedom is certainly worth protecting. But just because we are free to do something--because we have the legal right--doesn't mean we SHOULD...

I just wonder...is this issue REALLY worthy of so much excellent, articulate, energetic attention?? There are people dying of stupid violence, suffering with terrible thirst and hunger, women who...

this is the saddest thing i've heard in a really long time!!! may your baby chick find some fluffy little buddies!
kathy