1. This is a neat idea - for backpacking and helping people in need, both.

I also tend to use the word y'all in conversation.

The article says "another executive." I haven't seen any other edits to know if this is the second or third edit, but it certainly answers your question now.

Interestingly enough, it's apparently common for expensive luxury items to sell at greater rates during recessions. I don't know why, but I heard that higher end apparel stores like Nordstrom's in Seattle were marking up clothes because things like $900 shoes were selling like crazy (and, as someone at Nordstrom's…

I don't really know how these things are done - I'm not one of those people who feels prepared to lecture the editors on appropriate journalism. I just had a mental image of finding out that Giz had run a story on me by my phone vibrating non-stop all day, which was funny, and then I remembered that I don't like…

Holy crap.

I dunno... I mean, a common name like Leila, sure. But Nick? That's iffy.

I believe that's called "getting Gized." I feel bad for her... I wonder if they warned her, or if her phone just started exploding out of nowhere.

The five years I live in Canada were some of the best... social years of my life. Yeah, social.

My ability to discuss these things rationally starts and stops with corporate personhood. I mean... I'm a pretty liberal guy. I've read Peter Singer (if you get that reference, congrats), but the corporate personhood thing just irritates the hell out of me, and yet it's the basis for a lot of court cases with which I…

HTML tags... <_a href="your link here"_>your text link here<_/a_> Then just remove the underscores (delete, don't replace with a space - I just had to do something to keep it from being read as code)

Yeeeah... the page I linked actually redirects to that one (Pinyan doesn't have his own page). But it's horrible enough to be linked twice.

As a guy I can say... I dunno. I've never tried. But then I've never been accused of sexual harassment, either, so clearly I'm doing something wrong.

I used to really like Dr. Drew... when did he turn into Dr. Phil?

At some point "budget" started meaning things that were beyond my budget. Not that I'd mind spending $100-150 on a nice set of cans... I just have a hell of a lot better things to spend the money on. I just refinanced my car, for instance. I could pay that sucker off $150 faster (2/3rds of one month!).

Better penis cancer than death by peritonitis... no one in Washington can talk about Enumclaw anymore. It used to be another city with a silly name. Now it's just the city where that guy got fucked to death by a horse.

You lost any semblance of respectability by referring to people with whom you disagree as "little girls." It's not 1984 anymore. No one worth talking to over the age of 20 would find that insult anything but lame (or funny). But, really, for me it's all about the rationality. If you need to insult people to win an…

All I see is a future news story of a stupid college kid getting shot by police while opening a beer bottle.

I'm confused where you got that anyone said Reed was a good person (or, more flagrantly, that he's good because he's famous), or that his music was good. Neither serenada nor I said either of those things. Ironically, serenada made a reference that shows he/she knows famous != good/talented by mentioning Kim…

Short butt o' the point? I don't get it!