That’s OK, I got into an online argument recently about whether bicyclists should have to obey traffic rules like stopping at stop signs (instead of blowing through them without pausing). While I freely admitted that a pause-and-go was OK if there was no traffic, I pretty strongly believed that bicycles didn’t get a…

Plus, Von Spears. (his dog and inspiration for Groot)

I was delighted to introduce my French-learning daughter to babelfish.com, because then I got to give her a preview of the Hitchhiker books. She didn't seem to interested now, but since I've only just succeeded in getting her to watch Star Trek TOS, I have to give her time to get there. Hoopy!

It didn't work at the moment, and yet she's out of jail already. Maybe there's more to it than we can see right now? She certainly got that hospital ship to her in a hurry.

I’m guessing there’s an arc to this story we’re not seeing yet, you know the kind that doesn’t get resolved in a single episode? I could be completely wrong, but she tells the people arresting her that she’s too important for them to hold, then the call to the hospital ship and their immediate “yes ma’am” response…

I just had this argument with my daughter last night about fractions. “Are you sure 1/8 DOESN’T equal 1/4?” (I don’t know, don’t ask). "Yes, sweetheart, I'm positive." "Why don't you look it up on line to be sure?" *sigh*

...but what happens if everybody chooses Donald Trump? Is it like Murder on the Orient Express?

I’m going to guess that bars are not overly utilized in such a community, and that therefore people gravitate toward coffee shops, which frequently have similar hours to bars, but serve no intoxicating liquids.

Ironically, considering the number of people who were spouting off about how this was inevitable in a majority black city like Philly, that guy looks... white. Hunh.

Arkansas. Not to take anything away from my home state of Florida, just saying.

I know plenty of intelligent republicans who completely blame the president for ordering the monuments and parks closed as a political gesture. As someone who uses National Parks data almost every day, I can tell you that it was no lie that they were shut down. Even their websites go offline when they're defunded, it…

Right, I thought the R's were all about SMALLER government. I guess that only means smaller government in relation to guns and taxes. Hunh.

AWESOME names!

I had a dog who used to do that! And if he was going on the trip too, he would go dig it out of the suitcase as soon as we got to wherever we were going.

Don't know what to tell you about our darling 210 lb Irish Wolfhound, Finvarra. He was sitting in laps until the day he died. What a good boy.

No, but I have a list. I’m hoping karma’s wheel will eventually just squash him flat.

Similar issues with my now ex-husband. He was tasked with cleanup of our ruined house post-Katrina (because I was employed and he wasn’t) and I later discovered he had thrown out my childhood teddy bear, my dog’s ashes, my mother’s wedding dress, and my Audubon encyclopedias - along with plenty of other things too…

You're not. That's Q.

That’s the sticking point for me as well (if you’ll pardon the pun). Pick one - threw the body in the river or rendered it down for fat? If she rendered it down, there wouldn’t be so much a body to find, as a bunch of - maybe - tenuously connected parts. Then the problem with identification would have been WAY bigger…