I flew for the Navy, and part of my training was “riding” the hyperbaric chamber.

After reading about a woman who got the shit beat out of her for “shushing” loud teen girl movie patrons, perhaps the bystanders were afraid of a much worse fate for intervening in an active rape. The brash, unapologetic, public behavior of those animals would seem to be predictive evidence of their probability to…

Agreed. They're all idiots, reacting to each others quirks and dumb ideas. That's what makes a light show about a post-apocalyptic, human-extinct world *funny* instead of *sad*.

Sure, as long as the diverse body types can wear armor and hump a 70 lb. ruck for ten+ miles.

I was in 4th grade when one of the 8th graders wore a black t-shirt with a white Playboy bunny logo on it. I had no idea what it was or what it meant, but thought it was cool looking. I immediately set to doodling it on my homework, which led to an odd conversation from my teacher, telling me not to draw it anymore,…

They are trained to shoot to stop, not to kill. While there may be little practical difference, they use their firearms to stop the threat. If the threat has not stopped, they are to continue firing until it does. So, if a person is pointing a tazer/gun at them and they have determined it to be a threat, they are…

Yeah, saying you're trying to deescalate the situation without actually being helpful (by just giving the customer choices she clearly doesn't understand) is a subtle form of a power play: You'll order it my way or I'll just stand here and quiz you until you do. Obviously, if the person is saying they want a…

I suppose, from the reactions to it, that cream cheese and eggs is not an intuitive combination.

But, the beauty of American football is that one can watch a game and still do any number of other things at the same time, eating, socializing, surfing, reading. The start and stop nature of football allows for a "ten seconds on, thirty seconds off" watch schedule. Not so, for soccer. With it, one must watch the…

I see your point, but, in what other team sport do the players get to choose the balls? Not baseball. Not soccer. Not hockey (I know, it's a puck, but same deal). Not basketball.

Or, just have the league provide the balls, have the refs inflate and seal them with tiny little plugs in the filler nipples, and make both teams use the balls at random. Both teams should use the exact same balls on offense.

Also, here's a study by the AAP that states accidental child shootings are down by about 1/3 between 1997 and 2009 (from 15.5% to 10.8% of all child GSW hospitalizations and deaths). It is the assaults that have gone up, fairly dramatically.

Define "kids." Is is pre-teens? Under 18? Or does it include young adults well into their twenties?

You are not the first to notice that...

An emaciated, dehydrated, young stray kitty showed up in my back yard nine years ago. My kids fed her and loved her, so, despite my being allergic to cats, we took her in, since we knew the alternative was her going to a shelter where she would almost certainly be put down.

I've flown that pass during a VIP shipboard airshow. We were at .96 IMN on my gauges the whole way, right over the top of the flight deck, because we were ordered to NOT go supersonic. We had huge vapes, just like this Hornet, and we had a giant sonic boom (of which we, in the cockpit, were unaware) that thrilled…

I saw that production, as my first Broadway show EVAH, with Andrea McArdle and Danielle Brisebois in the cast. Our seats were in the 2nd row, and I was completely mesmerized. I was nine years old.

My wife and I moved to Japan in 1994. Our first week there, went to dinner at the Korean Barbecue outside the front gate of NAF Atsugi (a US air base in a Tokyo suburb). I slathered my first bite of hibachi-grilled meat with a butter-pat-sized gob of wasabi, not knowing what it was (and, to be fair, my pat size was…

It's not my demands. You made an incredible statement. I asked that you provide a source. Your source is that you read it in one of two newspapers twenty years ago, you can't find it, and that if I want more evidence than your word on the Internet, I should do your research for you.

I may be welcome to find it, but that's not my duty; I'm not the one making the assertion. Given my knowledge of the Navy and submarines, especially those dating back to the early last century, I'll just conclude that an all female crew recommendation is extremely improbable in a published, double-blinded, peer…