Totally off-topic, but can a palimpsest be brand-new? Isn't it by definition something that's been used before?

Considering that more than 16 million children in the US live in homes that are considered "food insecure," it's actually not a very big leftie leap to assume that not everyone in America has the option of bringing food from home. We aren't only talking about kids whose families are "simply" poor, as in unable to…

There is no doubt that this is the case, or is part of the case. To me, this is no less awful an event then the Boston bombing, and yet the news coverage has been despicable in its sparseness.

The clasp-in-the-front method is the only way I know of to get my bra on. My first college roommate used to make fun of me for it.

The point, though, is that I shouldn't have to do any of that. I should know the make and style name of the shoe because that information should be readily available. It doesn't matter what the extra step in the process is - trying to make out a fuzzy picture of the insole, talking to an employee, doing a rain dance -…

They do it with bigger names who I bet had the clout and savvy to insist on it - Seychelles, Miss L Fire, that sort of thing. For the cheaper shoes from, say, GoMaxx, they don't bother.

For this guy, I'd deal with the earthquake.

I hate that, too. I'm a size 11, which is pretty tough to find. ModCloth makes it worse in that they don't even ORDER that size from manufacturers who I know for a fact make their shoes that large.

Considering you know only as much as the least-informed possible "source," I don't think you have enough information to call bullshit on the claim that it's only proactive maintenance, which as someone with depression sounds like a damn good idea if I could afford it.

I feel you on this, but my own feelings confuse me. I've never liked Pink's music, but then she turned around and wrote a song for Adam Lambert that I love, and when I hear it I can totally understand that it was written by Pink - it has traces that are so totally her. And I like it a lot. And she seems like a cool…

I had never heard of late phase sleep disorder. I read this, and did a quick Wiki search. I think you seriously just changed my life.

I feel you. My sleep schedule is permanently fucked - Just like you, I hate waking before 9, but still don't really have "grumpy" mornings despite that. It's actually fine during the work week, but even just one day off is enough to have me sleeping till noon, staying up til 4 or 5 and then having one hell of an awful…

I read this, too. As Wax-tadpole says elsewhere, there's two versions of the book in the US - the popular reddish cover, edited version, and the light tan unedited version.

I think you're right that it matters who and where you were. The young, the idealistic, the urban - people who were likely to be used to a (very) slightly more integrated existence. My dad is from New York, and was and is very politically aware, and I know his story of where he was and what he was thinking when the…

Considering that the entire idea of "rational thought" was developed by philosophers, I suppose I do think you should respect it as an area of academic endeavor.

Ethics is a field of philosophy, so in fact yes, they did. Anybody thinking or writing on the topics of equality or justice is automatically engaging in philosophic thought.

Which is where the word "better" comes in. Which I used. Twice.

When you consider that the term "humanities" covers the study of things like, oh, law, philosophy, and history, the scientist/humanities feud becomes clearly pointless. While the hard scientists discover the ways for us to live longer and better, humanities scholars can make sure we live safer, happier, wiser... that…

I'm really sorry that happened to you.

I need to never be a time-traveler. The urge to send in notices to newspapers announcing every time I took a shit would be too great.