"Bless your heart" is a multipurpose phrase in the south, with one of the major meanings being "Wow, you really fucked up, didn't you?" The more adjectives, the sterner the judgment.

As an expatriate Southern lady, the only thing I can say is "Bless their poor little hearts".

Since my job is funded by an NIH grant, and NIH is part of the discretionary budget Ryan is so hot to cut, I expect to be unemployed.

I agree they need to. My understanding is that they don't.

By making it onerous for people in districts that would vote against him to vote at all. Of course.

That's what makes me nervous about the states that have voting-by-mail as the exclusive option. My signature hardly ever looks the same twice (to the point that I've added 'please check ID' alongside my signature on the backs of all my credit cards, after having one refused because my signature failed to match), and…

Giving genes wacky names is one of the few perks we get in exchange for our long hours and shitty pay in our work to improve the human condition and advance the boundaries of scientific knowledge.

Flies mutant for hedgehog don't have large amounts of spiky hairs. The name refers to the embryonic phenotype. The mature embryo has rows of spiky cuticle projections called denticles on its ventral surface, in a segmentally repeated pattern of rows of denticles interspersed with naked cuticle. In hedgehog mutants,…

No, she's still with us.

No discussion of nightmares is complete without mention of the work of Ernest Hartmann http://www.necsi.edu/faculty/hartmann.html .

"No backsies!"

And I thank you for it! Why is this not obvious to all the hoverers?

That sounds like a lot more effort than the do-it-yourself process described.

Agreed. This new commenting system is much more time consuming to read, and is totally failing on the promised improvement to the level of discourse.

But this isn't in any way taking away your right to drink all the soda you want. It just arranges it such that if you want more than is in your cup, you'll have to bestir yourself to stand up from your table, walk over to the soda dispenser, and pour yourself some more.

Any chance of a followup about how this story is yet another Daily Mail hoax? [worldnews.msnbc.msn.com]

You know what would be even funnier? Uploading a video of one of these witty young men being arrested for assault and battery,

I was just about to say that! And reference my friend whose paper was rejected by the PLoS ONE reviewers last month.

That article also includes a link to Ms Cole's actual father's thoughts. They sound very little Jimi Izrael's. [hiphopwired.com]

4% is incredibly common. 4% is 1 in 25. 1 in 25 is every classroom.