They might be under some threat because they are very important . . .

I've taken to telling my kids that there is almost no difference sometimes between laziness and wisdom.

Yeah. I wonder about this sometimes. Is the Earth Tourism Board just not getting the word out on how to behave when dining out on this planet? I mean, they get their costumes and faces put together just fine, and then they do weird stuff that gets them put on the next ship off world.

So, they have virtual rape in video games?

My wife and I went to a local Luby's Cafeteria for dinner. Afterwards, I was sick, and had to stay home from work. My wife then called their manager to complain. He asked her what I had eaten. When she told him that it was the fried chicken, he was heard saying: "Strange, it's usually the seafood . . ."

Uh . . . this is kinda like having an AA meeting in a bar

I’d love to see a list of the faculty who objected to her attendance in a tuxedo. It would be good for the student body to know which of their students may have a white hood in their desk drawers.

So, what it really seems to boil down to is: Sociopaths understand and respect other sociopaths. and there is no sociopath like a corporation.

I am in tears over this!

I once suffered to listen to a woman go on about how eating chlorophyll is good for you because the polyporphyrin structure is similar to the heme in blood cells. I suggested she go to a deli and get blood sausage.

You clarify it and make an aspic aquarium!

If collagen is so great, then Jell-o is like a miracle of foodiness!

There are days when I really pine for the old days of The Trickster. The level of good governance and transparency in the Nixon Administration makes him seem like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and JFK all rolled into one, compared with the crap we have today.

It's great when the government is there for you.

Oh, yeah. I'd been laid off, and so I now work part time doing home health aid stuff. I get to change diapers on really old guys. It is unpleasant to smell and to do, but it is WAY nicer than what I read here. The people I work for are generally nice and pleasant to me, and I try to do my best for them. My supervisor…

"No lunch for you!"

I'd like to request a FAQ or a Wiki be made for BCO, with direct links to "Saved Bread", "Eggs cooked regular", "Monogrammed Coffee Thermoses" and "I'll eat all your bread".

And then she saw the look on my face and realized she missed something vital in her upbringing.

You're sick, you know.

What, does it shoot lasers or something?