For those not familiar, Ariat is a company which sells equestrian, outdoor, and work clothing and footwear.

I have a great fondness for their English half chaps (non horse people, these are leather sheaths that you wrap around your calves while riding horses to improve grip and reduce chafing). …

There’s a meme circulating on social media that basically goes “Your Halloween costume is sexy plus the last thing you searched on Google.” “Sexy bus schedule.”

It’s funny but it’s not funny. Because it highlights a very real issue.

Not Only Little Kids Dress Up For Halloween

One of my sads about COVID is that I can’t welcome…

The latest buzz phrase about COVID-19 is “hybrid immunity.” We’re told it’s a good thing, so let’s unpack this.

What is Hybrid Immunity?

It’s actually very simple. It turns out that people who caught COVID-19 and then got vaccinated have stronger immunity than people who only caught it and people who only got vaccinated.

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We think of the Earth as a mostly stable thing…or at least we did until the last crazy couple of years.

But we definitely think of where we are on the Earth as stable on any time scale that matters to us. England is in the temperate zone. …

So, as a note. I am not a transit investigator or rail professional. And I don’t, obviously, have the full picture here, as the investigation is ongoing.

But Washington, D.C.’s subway system is screwed up and borderline unusable. Again.

And that “again” is sadly an echo of again and again…

It’s not often that we have good news on the sexist and racist dress code front.

But on October 15, the board of the Turlock school district (Turlock is in the Stanislau County, California, an agricultural town in the Central Valley) voted to relax the dress code. Substantially.

What the New Dress Code Allows

I wasn’t…

So, I have to admit I missed this because I was still fairly young and there was no internet, but did you know that at one point the sixth largest navy in the planet was owned by…

…Pepsi.

And it’s a story that has to do with some bizarre geopolitics…

Yes, guys. You probably don’t think of yourself as having breasts, but your bodies are designed so that a bit of female hormone (just ask a trans woman. Or a cis man with the unfortunate condition of gynecomastia)…and poof. Breasts.

Which means cis men have a bit of breast tissue…