Bananas: the new sports drink

Bananas are one of my least favorite fruits, but it looks like I should start keeping them around. “We wanted to see which was more beneficial when consumed during intense cycling — bananas or a carbohydrate sports drink,” said Dr. David C. Nieman, director of the human performance lab and a member of the College [...]

People want weird things

I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport waiting for a flight back home that is hella delayed due to mechanical problems.  The lady sitting right next to me pitched a monumental fit at that announcement.  I said to her, “You know…the other option is to put us on a broken plane.  I think we should be [...]

Maddox on link-baiting

If you run a high traffic site you get emails from people wanting you to promote their stuff.  If it’s something relevant that I support, I’ll plug it in a heartbeat.  However, most of it is stuff from link-baiting sites looking to generate ad revenue.  Maddox has written a great post about it in which [...]

Pics from Darrel Ray's place

On Sunday Darrel Ray held his annual bbq at this house.  The event raises money for the Recovering from Religion Foundation.  The crowd was promised two surprise guests which turned out to be myself and Jerry DeWitt.  Here are some pics that pretty much illustrate how the evening went for me: lots of being cute [...]

Murder statistics of transgender people

Christina here… I’ve been thinking a lot about trans issues a lot in the past few days, and have especially been considering the disturbing statistics associated with the violence and oppression transgender people face. The statistic that disturbs me the most, which I have now seen on many other websites, was first presented in the comments section of [...]

Making jell-o

There are two things in life I’ve always sucked at despite some very sincere attempts to learn: cooking and dancing.  It came to light last year that I didn’t even know how to make jell-o.  For my co-workers, this has been a well for chortling at my expense that never runs dry. But no more!  [...]

Want to keep commenting here? Don't derail threads.

As I’ve said in the past, I’m very reticent to ban anybody.  However, in the last week there have been a couple posts where there was very great potential for conversation in which those of us who may not fully understand an issue could be helped to understand it better.  Those comment threads were hugely [...]

Epic breakfast date

Physioproffe thinks he has cornered the market on blogs about cooking.  No longer! Michaelyn and I saw the most recent episode of Epic Meal Time.  Even though it contained the only thing they’ve ever made that didn’t look appetizing to me (sticks of butter covered in peanut butter and deep fried), it did inspire us.  [...]

The Avengers: almost better than watching the Vatican crumble

Never have I left a movie honestly tempted to immediately purchase a ticket for the very next showing of that movie before leaving the lobby.  Never…until The Avengers.  Holy shit that was a good flick.  I never thought a superhero movie would top watching DVDs of X-Men 3 and Daredevil get fed to a woodchipper, [...]

Fair warning: this will make you angrier and a little dumber

Remember the pastor who said he wanted to put LGBT people behind electrified fences and left there until they died of starvation (which, someone said, was not tantamount to murder).  Well, he has a 1200-member congregation (they were the ones shouting “Amen” at the idea of the genocide of normal people), and one of them [...]