Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.
Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.
Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.
People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.
Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito. . . As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito. . . It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts. . . must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.