We're thinking about this all wrong. This isn't sad or funny. It's fantastic! When's the last time you've had a major epiphany that made your life substantially better every single day for the rest of your life?

Mrs. Kumquat and I eloped. I highly recommend it. No pressure, great sex, and a head start on the honeymoon. You can always have a drunken party with friends and family that degenerates into petty shouting, hurt feelings and torn jackets. That's what Thanksgiving is for.

That's too bad. I'm enough of a Cardinals fan that I try and stay at a hotel that overlooks the ball field whenever I'm in town, and then walk over to a game if they are playing. Maybe I'll have to stay over by the zoo instead, where the animals are a little less scary.

It looks like only a couple of vehicles outside the gate, and no visible activity around the building. I wonder what this target was.

Laser safety glass shouldn't be reflective of the laser's wavelength at all. That would make the glasses themselves dangerous when hit. In practical terms, I except they'd just build the filter into the plane's canopy rather than the pilot's visor. But in any event, any laser powerful enough to dig through such a…

Because our enemy's pilots don't have access to safety glasses?

Wow, that's really going to drive the neighborhood cats crazy.

Some of the best advice I ever got was about losing bids on houses: "Don't worry. They're like buses. Another one will come along soon enough."

I hope she kept the receipt. That always makes returns easier.

Clearly you and I should never travel together.

Not in my experience. The internet has never provided me with invitations to meals at strangers' houses, or backstage passes, or free Cessna plane rides for example. I've yet to be set up with unlimited free drinks via the internet either. Perhaps those things are available, but it sure seems like a lot of extra…

My wife and I travel a fair amount for business and fun. Talking to strangers is key to elevating travel from being a chore to being interesting. How else do you find the best places to eat, get invited to local events, or figure out how to really move around inside a city?

So your solution is to quiver in fear, never leaving your house? Because that's the only logical approach you offer. That is, unless you just aren't very good at risk management and figuring out what's a risk worth diminishing your life for, and what's just fear mongering by silly people who are bad at math.

Or maybe a machete gun?

"Grey Meat" is the best Whiteskin slur I've heard.

This Sterling-Silver thing is pure entertainment gold.

He didn't say "eye to eye". He said "do what I want". For example slaves were forced to do the latter. Do you really think they saw eye to eye with their owners?

How do you know they ran the entire race? Everyone that is chipped can prove they earned the medal.

Did they? Or only part of the race?

I'm confused about the priorities here. If we are getting laid ALL season, aren't we the real winners?