Leatherjacket fish taste good. I don’t think we have turtles in NZ (except via pet stores and in zoos).

I did wonder if the Leatherback could be considered “soft shell”. I’ve touched a soft shell’s shell, and it does feel like leather.

The turtle question is simple : there are only seven extant sea turtles (testudinae): Green, Loggerhead, Kemp’s Ridley, Olive Ridley, Hawksbill, Fatback and Leatherback. If not one of those: fresh water.

There is no need to resort to euphemisms, except in your head. You might get more sympathy for your position if you made the effort to be more objective in your description.

Republican politicians don’t have principles, they just have tactics. Republicans have been gaming the system for so long they are incapable of respecting the law any more.

Indeed a Good One, but I have to admit it took me quite a while to recognise the implement on the left. Early Alzheimers?
Apparently there is a move on the way to impeach the Pen State Supreme Court judges. Unbelievable, more so since even conservative Justice Alito simply threw the appeal out (I wanted to add ‘scornfully’, but that would not be objective).
Don’t they stop at anything?

@jam. The appellate bench is not the Supreme Court, ther is no real equivalence.
The whole Bork saga is a diversion from Mr McConnell’s evil machinations. A red herring.
Bork was not nominated in an election year at all. He was heard by the Senate Committee and rejected, but was nevertheless allowed -against established use- to be heard by the full Senate.
Mr Garland was not even heard by the Committee, let alone the full Senate. There has been no precedent in the full -more than 2 centuries- history of the US that that has ever happened. Never has a nominee been refused beforehand, before nomination, because a particular elected president was going to nominate him.
No nominees by an elected president were ever denied being heard, sole exceptions being nominees nominated after a new president was elected (and even then about half of them were).
The enormity of Mr McConnell’s despicable actions are difficult to estimate. After the 2018 elections, the committee could eg. decide not to hear any candidate of Mr Trump , because in the year before an election year, etc. etc.

Liberals also generally believe that the rights of one don’t trump the rights of another – and that the right of a fetus to live doesn’t allow it to use another human as a life-support machine against their will, anymore than I can demand the use of your body against your will to keep me alive now. Conservatives, on the other hand, seem to want to grant fetuses special rights that then expire upon birth.

This comment has been deleted by me (Heather). It was completely unacceptable even as a joke.

It goes without saying that the content on your site is entirely your prerogative. What euphemism would you prefer that we use for these businesses?