Hearted. You can say whatever you like - it's protected! - and I can say whatever I like about what you said - also protected! The First Amendment isn't a shield against people calling you a dick for saying something asinine. It's a shield against people putting me in jail for pointing out how asinine you are.

I suppose it's how you read the intent of the author. I thought the implication was that some among the privileged class make that assumption (and thus consider it slumming with the under classes), not that the author was making it. But if the author assumes IHOPs are filled with people of other races it would be…

Even as a non-religious person, this bothers me. I made a day trip to Vancouver with the intent to visit Christ Church Cathedral (it's beautiful), among a bunch of other things. So I looked at their website to see when it was open to the public. I was in there talking to the guy at the visitor desk (I'd started out…

Sure. Minorities can be racist. If you are of a minority, you can try to avoid doing things that are racist, too. But if you're of the majority, or interact with members of the majority, you should at least be aware of how racism is evolving within majority culture. So that everyone can call it out when they see it,…

That's the very first line of the article...

Since no one seems to have answered you, the doctor asked both Mr. Fearing and his sister if they would agree to having to organ donated to Gomez. She was more than willing - said something to the effect of, "I'm just glad it will go to someone and give them a second chance."

You put a lot of thought into that.

Oh, Reddit... you never cease to fail to amaze me. I like your constant stream of meme pics as much as the next guy, and sure IAmA is cool... but at your heart you're just a bunch of 20-something nerds looking for something to jerk off to.

Sublimating their income? Was that an autocorrect fail? Because it's awesome.

And sinister used to refer to the left side or left-handedness in Latin (dexter being right). Which I think is great. And hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus. I'm sure there are a million more things with ridiculous origins. They're fun!

At first I read your reply and said, "Oh, that totally makes sense!" But then I pulled out my camera, and my ability to support my lens doesn't really seem to be impacted at all by shooting grip-down. Granted, I was using a 50-250mm lens, but I would assume larger, longer lenses would at the very least get no more…

The lady in the photo above seems to be a righty, though. Or, at least, she shoots the way I've shot... and I've shot that way because it seems more natural. Apparently I look like a moron, though, so what do I know? ;-)

So how is one supposed to shoot a portrait, then? The grip pointed up seems like a lot more work, especially if you're shooting a lot of pictures (just hold your arm up in the air for 10 minutes). Grip down seems more natural, but I'm not a fancy photographer.

Well said. I read the whole thing expecting to find the urges interacted, because previous research has shown things like hunger, libido, risk-taking and status-seeking mutually enhance (or suppress) each other. So, this was interesting to me.

One perfect score usually doesn't ruin a study. If the sample size was large enough you would have simply been an outlier that budged the mean recalled words a little up, but the standard deviation would show that most people were not as good... though you probably warranted a mention in a lab meeting between an RA…

I bought an HP TouchPad when they went on fire sale and used it for web browsing/facebook exclusively for about a month... then it went on a shelf, and it only comes out when I travel. I thought there must be something to them, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. Maybe I'm officially old now, and…

Technically, they have to charge tax in any state they do business, which includes where their warehouses and distribution centers are.

Unless you live in stupid Washington state, where Amazon HQ is... aw, who am I kidding? I don't pay state income tax, I have some of the most incredible scenery (mountains, ocean, desert, rainforest, evergreens, rivers and lakes galore), and microbreweries and vineyards as far as the eye can see (there are something…

So it still doesn't sound responsible in the denotative sense of the word. Perhaps in the legal sense of following one's legal obligations, but not in the sense of "the best use of one's money." Although, I find the case for a dividend more compelling in the case of Apple (who already seems to leverage R&D and buyouts…

I wonder how a woman starts emailing the president of Syria. Does al-Assad have a [match.com] profile where he meets these ladies, or do the ladies think one day, "I wonder what the president is doing?" and decide to send him an email?