Callie has got to learn

[conuly]

There is a time to snuggle and a time to desist from snuggling, a time to kill mice and a time to not kill mice.

Sigh. At least the neighbors ought to be happy, she caught that mouse in their yard. And then ate the entire thing when I told her to finish killing it before coming up and headbutting me, yuck.

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Comments

[siderea]

Suburban Sprawl Stole Your Kids' Sleep

This was interesting, in that I didn't know about the connection to the oil crisis of the 1970s. But, goddam, we knew about the biology of teenagers and sleep when I was in high school, in the late 1980s. Nobody cared. Doing things that hurt kids or curtailed their academic success was practically the national sport. Maybe people are different now.

[conuly]

Don't forget sports as an argument: Blah, blah, blah, athletes need the afternoon to train. Somehow, nobody ever accepts that they could come in early to train.

[siderea]

Why don't we make those kids go to a special school that accomodates their special needs? Their school can start whenever they think best, and all the normal kids at normal kid schools – and the kids at science schools, and arts schools, and vocational schools, and elite academic schoos, and schools for kids with behavioral problems - can all get a decent night's sleep?

[jesse_the_k]

A fucking men

[conuly]

Better yet, decouple sports from school entirely, do it strictly weekends-and-mornings.

[zesty_pinto]

That bug burger thing sounds like something that would work better if they marketed it as a seafood thing, but I may only be saying that since I am aware that grubs usually get related with shrimp. Either way, if you can legitimize balut to the public, then I think this can also be done.

I'm more shocked that there are environmental groups that oppose one of the so far best alternatives to beef burgers to date because it uses GMO yeast. This fear of GMOs needs to stop, especially as we need to keep building stronger strains of crops that can handle the slowly resistance-gaining strains of blights and diseases that are affecting agriculture.