It's always been weird to me that the USA's military operates like an entirely separate country with it's own laws and courts. Do other countries do the same thing?

Maybe you went to a school that had academic standards. I don't remember ever doing homework and I was class salutatorian.

In my town there were a dozen coaches for the hockey team, but they were also the teachers at the school. A football field doesn't necessarily cost very much money, even if it's big. It's just bleachers and a field. A misguided local businessman probably donated funds for the flaming statues. Where I grew up a former…

It is pretty much what every town in America of 20,000 or less is like. Good luck trying to fix that situation.

If you've never heard of a town investing that many resources into high school football you've never been to Texas.

When I was in high school I signed up for as much extracurricular crap as possible which would get me out of class. Football actually isn't the best sport for this as there are not very many games. Basketball is probably the best, or where I grew up, hockey. Track and field was good, band and orchestra, quiz bowl,…

For some reason I can't watch that video. I just googled her and it does look like she kept her nose, my bad.

She definitely changed her whole face. That is not the same nose, either.

The way it's supposed to work is that smaller groups rotate the weeks that they use the house, not 15 people there all the time.

I got a ticket for riding my bike on the sidewalk in the dead zone on Flushing over by the Navy Yard. I rode up on the sidewalk because a series of ambulances was blazing past me... one of the cops following the ambulances pulled me over and gave me the ticket. Ugh.