You really shouldn't criticize unless you were there. First of all, if it's your first child, you really don't know what to expect and you let the professionals (you know, doctors and nurses who do that stuff every day) guide you. Secondly, one is quite tired those first few days. You don't sleep much to begin with,…

It's not even a local anesthetic for babies, or at least it wasn't for my son, who is 7 now. The only anesthetic they gave him was a pacifier dipped in sugar water to keep him from crying too much. It killed me knowing that.

Dude, I quoted your post directly. You said CF was the gold standard in form. I laughed at that ridiculous tripe. That's where all this started or is reading comprehension also not the gold standard at CF?

You can either Google "CrossFit bad form" or peek your head in at any number of CrossFit gyms (they're gyms, not boxes - CF didn't invent this stuff) to see numerous examples of bad form. That's hardly the gold standard.

To get good form, Xfit is the gold standard.

I once saw a grackle steal a whole taco from someone on the river walk in SA. I'm pretty sure they also team up and steal small children, but since they congregate in WalMart parking lots and such, perhaps the children are better off. We only fight the gulls when we hop over to Galveston.

Well, that one's in a much better place than the WalMart scavengers I'm used to.

No, they're not pigeons, who are also rats with wings. How about we just call one rats with wings and one nutria with wings? Grackles are not beautiful. A Google image search turns up nothing but pictures of how they should look, but the fact is that none of them do look that. They're haggard and dirty.

You know what the majestic sounding "Great Tailed Grackle" is? They're basically a rat with wings. They're literally everywhere, especially in places like WalMart parking lots. There's so many of them that you can literally walk under trees where they're roosting and feel like you're being rained on because so many of…

You assumed correctly, but I interpreted your response as smart assed and I shouldn't have. While I agree that some people from different generations may have much in common and may have great relationships, I don't believe that most do. I've been in relationships where one of us were a bit older than the other and,…

Nice job with the purposeful obtuseness. Any other tricks you can do?

This. I'm well on my way to 50 and I can't even imagine dating a woman in her twenties or early thirties. I mean, what do you talk about after the physical part is over? Then again, I had two English teachers in HS that I would have gladly hooked up with back in the day. The thing that I don't understand, and perhaps…

There's someone for everyone, even inside.

Outside of paying for protection, which can always be done, or joining a gang, which is probably going to cause you to catch cases while locked up and often isn't something you can just leave behind when you get out, the best advice is to keep your mouth shut, mind your own business, don't accept any kind of gift or…

Every one of those big musclebound people started off lifting tiny weights and they're probably more focused on what they're doing rather than on you. Most of the people I've met who are bodybuilders or powerlifters are more than happy to help people out...

I grew up in the 70's so the clothes I wore to church were that hot, itchy polyester from that time period. I absolutely hated going to church because of being forced to dress up. I stopped attending church for many years, but when I started going again a few years ago, I chose to wear at least business casual…

Amen to your post! I'm far removed from high school, but I still have a hard time scraping up some sympathy for someone, who is otherwise popular, being picked on one time. I believe that those of us who suffered repeated and continual bullying are much more likely to have carried scars from it into our later adult…

No, I get all that and wasn't arguing those points and was actually arguing with (to me) an incomplete point, which skadl cleared up. However, all of the typically used pain drugs (opiate based) cause some amount of fogginess or altered thinking. I agree that we need better alternatives, but the drug in this post…

Thanks for that follow up. It made your point much clearer to me and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

If really serious pain isn't addressed by existing meds, why do we have dilaudid, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, etc.? In fact, this new med is really just another souped up opiate, of which we have plenty to choose from.