Volleyball. Always volleyball.

Yeah, there's some editing/research needed here.

Wait, was this a simple septoplasty? Or was there sinus work done too? I had a septoplasty years ago (to correct a 95% occluded right nostril—frequent sinus infections, etc), and the problems you describe were nowhere on my radar.

"which reads like a transcript of an eloquent coke rant or a Robin Williams free-association jag"

I love articles from people in service jobs just for the opportunity to read commentary from people who've never worked them. Or "did it for a little while in high school/college until I got a real job."

1) Wasn't that in one of the Hitchhikers' books?

There is a place in Hell for former pizza delivery guys who don't tip. Unless he shits on the pizza in front of you, you tip. And he doesn't speak English? Did he get you your food on time? Then you tip. I delivered to Spanish speaking neighborhoods, and even though my Spanish was limited to the terrible,…

The most commonly cited study is this: http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506

+1 Well played sir.

R'hllor Red Ale

The Sword in the Darkness Black Lager

Chargers everywhere: bedside, office, and one that lives in my bag for the road. And I turn my phone to Airplane Mode whenever I get in the subway or anywhere I don't need/can't get a signal.

Beat me to it. Can't have anything that's going to rise like that.

The same. He became a freaking billionaire off that franchise, and uses a lot of money to try to influence politics. His biggest issue is support for Israel. There was a New Yorker write-up on him in the last couple years.... found it: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck

Where are you getting that from? Where did he say "All Christians believe this shit, religion is for retards"? He talks about arguments proffered by "creationists" and "biblical literalists." If you believe in "the Big bang, Pangea, Evolution, Dinosaurs, Ice Ages, and ... SCIENCE," then that doesn't apply to you.

Somewhere, an English teacher and an entire science faculty are crying.

I dreaded seeing this day come. I knew you were too talented a writer to stay here forever, which is not at all a knock on your colleagues. You simply were destined for a bigger writing gigs.

http://jezebel.com/5964184/15+year+old-girl-killed-by-suitors-after-her-father-rebuffed-them

How do you figure? Is it necessarily racialized because she's white and he's black? Otherwise I don't really see how you can read that angle into what she said.