This is a case of hyper-correction that should be resisted. I've used and heard "calling a spade a spade" used my entire life and never saw or heard of anyone leaping to scold over it until a Gawker thread a couple years ago. I get that "spade" was once a racist epithet; I doubt it's in much use anywhere today. If the…

I don't think it was as much about quickness (though certainly conditioning and training were essential) as discipline, body awareness, and a preternatural ability to read your opponent. Thus "weirding," understood in the original sense as pertaining to fate or destiny, and practitioners of "the weirding way"…

That is, I don't see how those benefits wouldn't be offset, etc.

100% guaranteed, huh? I hope you aren't the kind of person who thinks that anyone who claims to have read a book you couldn't complete must be a liar. That would be the other side of the elitist coin, fyi.

This is obviously advanced viral marketing for Chronicle 2 (working subtitles: "Mommy, Wow!" and "Look Who's Saving the World Now!'), in which toddlers-with-superpowers is naturalistically explored.

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That second pick made me think of the Shroud of Turin.

@Zenayda: I'm wondering if he survived only because of the rail guard. Or rather I wonder if his burns came from the heated rail guard and not from having been electrocuted through direct contact with the third rail itself, which would have killed him.