The timing for this article is also particularly bad, as holidays stretch even politically engaged parents super thin. I've had 8 kids (ages 2-11) staying at my house this week. And even with 7 other grownups to help, I can count on one hand the number of news articles I've had time to read in full.

Meanwhile, even if a reader takes the time to click on and read the article, they still have to scroll past two ads and a list of related stories to get to the "okay but" paragraph explaining that real scientists are highly skeptical of these new FDA claims.

part of what made louis ck’s old routines funny was the ability to trust that he knew whereof he spoke, that he had conquered his issues with women enough to joke about them incisively. turns out he hadn’t, therefore couldn’t. craft issue!!

So a wondrous new technology (or more accurately, a kleptomatic bullshit generator) that does the writing for you is not remotely helpful. Nobody asked for it. What would be more helpful would be if the big publishing companies paid us more and weren't so predatory or inscrutable in their practices.

Of the roughly 2.4 million farmworkers who help feed our nation from coast to coast, at least half are undocumented. This number is even more pronounced in agriculture-rich states like California, where as many as 75% of workers lack legal immigration status.