Iowa has some fine points to it.

That video is hilarious!! He's like the cookie monster on mute. With a cigar.

So west coast. So why I miss it.

So west coast. So the reason I don't actually miss it.

John's love of skeleton was the inspiration for many songs, including 1969's "Blistered", 1970's "Flesh and Blood" and the bitter ode to a practice run in 1987 "Let Him Roll".

From being used as a pillow.

I really don't think it's fair to blame SeanR on Jez. I don't think people routinely urge each other to self immolate there, even when they are quite annoyed with each other, and as far as I can tell, they are pretty eager to make up and achieve bonding again if at all possible. It's mostly female, see, so the…

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So true. I used to live in northern Washington state, and really enjoyed watching the Olympics on Canadian television. Now that I live where I can't get Canadian TV, it's not nearly as enjoyable, because of the constant yammering about American medal counts. This year, though, I'm not watching them at all. The…

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A better question than the toilet paper disposal one, is the sewage disposal one. I'm going to take a wild guess and say they haven't built proper sewage treatment plants to handle all those folks that are decending on Sochi even as we speak.

That live Clapton /Cale is so very sweet…..

woot!!! You had me laughing all the way through. I like the obit jokes especially.

It's kind of a miracle no one got crushed. Crowd scenes like that can go bad very quickly, not even because of malice, when the people at the back start trying to get closer to the front. It's just horrifying.

I don't even get the whole "security perimeter" thing. Last year was the Super Dome, which is smack in the middle of downtown New Orleans, and the parking lot was full of folks. Why no "security perimeter" there? Was there some sort of threat in New York that wasn't present in New Orleans, or what?

That was in the Udistrict, on Greek row, which is a pain in the butt at the best of times.

So true.

It seems to me the fault is pretty clear, it's the fault of the NFL. They should have been running free shuttles, not 50 dollar shuttles, and they should have known that months ago. I read on DS several days before the game where people from New Jersey and New York were saying the trains were going to be a cluster…

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That was just plain creepy. I found it most disturbing.