If I had responded to the OP, my post would have been almost identical to yours.

Tamiflu is supposedly only beneficial if you start it within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. It purportedly does nothing to reduce your flu symptoms. As a matter of fact, the most common side-effects of the antiviral are viral-like symptoms. The only benefit of Tamiflu in the general populace is it appears to shorten…

The plucked rooster made me realize that chickens are actually teeny tiny little T-rexes.

There are like, what, about 50 Frank L. Baum Oz stories?

Words are important because they mean things.

Loved, loved, loved that book when I was a kid. I still have the paperback lying around somewhere. Would've made a great film, I always thought.

With the exception of the second hand, that is the most generic clock design I've ever seen.

Seemed appropriate, somehow.

I only see one douche. You.

Duly noted, thanks.

A solution in need of a problem?

I had a small rechargeable impeller-fan-in-a-tube thing that came with a brush and a nozzle. Don't see it on the market anymore, but it worked really well.

I like Stanton too, John Carter got seriously short shrifted. Way better than a number of successful films I've seen recently.

The Martian Chronicles, especially the morose third act of the book.

We have LESS bayonets and horses. Not a complete lack of.

That's pretty ridiculous. The physician simply doesn't have enough minutes in a day to stand over everyone else's shoulders to make sure they are doing their job correctly all while he goes about trying to doing his job correctly. There has to be some personal accountability but the buck doesn't automatically stop at…

He was implying exactly the opposite.

Assassin's Creed. Worst. Offender. Ever.

You forgot to add the sarcasm emoticon.

Sometimes, it's not about the end result, it's about the process. My grandfather was this way, a true Jalopnik, he did everything from sew his own upholstry to hand-carve gearshift knobs to fixing 1960s era Alfa fuel injection systems. But once a car was done, you knew it would be gone soon and some other unloved cur…