That excerpt is too long. I gave up after the first three sentences...

The linked article is concise, but for those interested in the topic it's way, way better to listen to Jad Abumrad's podcast, where he lets Dolly tell the story. The entire "Dolly Parton's America" series is superb, IMHO.

Raising taxes to maintain infrastructure shouldn't be viewed as a negative.

I'm glad that someone is trying to debunk this old wives' tale pseudoscience.

Admirable choice of color of marble to use for a bust.

If your dentist recommends you start using a fluoride mouth rinse, there is a "bubble gum" flavored one made by ACT. Not bad.

Still a new word, and an even better one. Tx !!

New word for the day: interstitial. Thanks.

It's a mesmerizing presentation. Takes a while to appreciate that entities can move down in the rankings even while the absolute number of visits is rising because the scale is proportional.

Cool. (so to speak...)
And blogworthy. Nice find, John.

They left out "Herman" - a unit of volume equivalent to a cubic mouthful.

At the risk of sounding like a Debby Downer, I have to wonder whether the dogs would continue to wait for their owner if a hospital employee gave them some food. To me the photo exemplifies not interspecies love, but rather a modern dystopia in which both people and dogs are going hungry.

A recent Consumer Reports article addresses these questions:
https://www.consumerreports.org/nutrition-healthy-eating/meat-gets-a-makeover/

Or they can eat the sand-which-is there.