Thank you. Dallas, Houston, Austin, SA. All blue. This is entrenched cronyism in the lege.

As for "why texas?" someone said it upthread. I can drive highway speeds for 4-5 hours any direction from my house and not leave the state. There is no decent public transport around the state. It's either 2 hours in an airport…

i think the summers/reynolds fight starts at about the 4min mark

i think the summers/reynolds fight starts at about the 4min mark

He did/does have OCD. IIRC he went on Oprah about it, or at least became very public on the subject. Looking back on DoubleDare knowing that, I love the guy even more for succeeding against his illness.

Raggedy Ann and Andy scared the bejeezus out of me.

agreed. I realize there are engineering challenges aplenty here, but I can't help but feel most human progress is stopped by a crowd of people going "yeah, right brainiac. you're a douche. your smart thing won't work because stupid."

i feel the same way about bands. too often, if faith or lack thereof is addressed in rock, it's not because they don't believe. It's because they're mad at sky-dad (trent reznor, i'm looking at you).

Then there's something like Quiet Company's album "We are all where we belong", which is like a break up album with…

a coworker of mine from detroit was going off yesterday about the deliciousness of vernor's ginger ale and whiskey. Made me think of Ale8 (Kentuckiana, anyone?).

i love the new sunkist logo with the combined letter ligature....makes their name into SinKist

no lie, diet a&w is freaking awesome.

If I were born and raised as far outside the normal bubble as that kid, I'd wear anything that struck me as cool or fun, all the time. If he wears what looks right for public school, does he also have to pretend any other aspect of his life is like mine?

Didn't Chevy Chase drop out of the show, effectively killing off that character? Problem solved.

"Physics professor Rhett Allain crunched the numbers to see what it would take to merely hover the machine in mid-air. The estimated power output was about 1.21 gigawatts"

do the decades of comics not count as avengers' concept art?

so can we find planets that are in the "stuck" phase and shove them across the filter?

yes! and can i just get any single issue of planetary as a movie?

yep. it's nolan's cinematographer's first directorial project, i believe. it's been on morning spoilers a few times.

i've seen someone smoke an e-cig in a hospital room (not the patient, just a visitor). nurse didn't say anything.

"Not only are the long term impacts of e-cigarette use extremely unclear, it's obvious that nicotine addiction is a necessary part of the equation."