"Food-Grade" hydrogen peroxide is hurting people, and for God's sake, people are amazing at finding new ways to harm each other

Remember the phrase "Suicide Blonde" (as in, she dyed by her own hand)? Well, this is a helluva lot worse than dealing with your roots showing.

New Jersey is dealing with a big jump in mushroom poisoning. You read that right

Number one on the watch list is the 'Death cap' (Amanita phalloides). Which makes it irresistible for me to post one of my favorite book beginnings of all time:

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.” 
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

The King (of apples) is dead. Long live the King

The Red Delicious apple--possibly my least-favorite apple, even though it's beautiful--just fell from its 5-year perch as the #1 apple in the US. The Gala, which strikes me as having a better skin and a better texture, albeit in a smaller package, is the new numero uno.  My favorite the Honeycrisp is rising fast but still comes in at #5 overall.