Everything paranormal. You have miracles (psychokinesis), prophecy (clairvoyance), maybe benign aliens watching over us (salvation). All the comforts of religion minus those pesky rules of conduct.

I hear you can have tiny, delicate feet if you start keeping them tightly wrapped beginning in childhood.

Less horrible than hilarious. When my oldest son was three, we were cooking the turkey in a brown paper bag, since special cooking bags weren't out yet. This bag was made of a different paper and caught fire. No big deal - we just hustled it over to the sink and spritzed water on it. Meanwhile, our son had been taught…

A friend of mine from Utah once went to a meeting in Germany and asked about doing some research into his ancestry. He was told "You're from Utah, right? The Mormons have already been here. They already have all that stuff."

Speer was the only top Nazi who accepted responsibility after the war. He later described his vision as "the epitome of cruelty."

Don't you love how people with no skills at all think technically trained people (doctors, pilots, etc.) are overpaid?

Anything that is not maintained degrades. You can't fight the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Even given the failings of Stalinist Russia, this was probably a great place in its day.

A minister friend of mine says "If thou tootest not thine own horn, it will not getteth tooted." My site: www.uwgb.edu/dutchs goes back to December 1996 and is still active. Mostly deals with my college courses and has a lot on geology and travel.

Under a lot of the rhetoric about the "end" of white me, the minority majority, etc., I detect a lurking subtext that we will finally see the end of that nasty old work ethic. We will all lie in the sunny meadow and strum guitars and have a love-in.

I have a three story attic.

The people who buy this crap (and stuff out of Skymall) are the people who supposedly know so much about running the nation's economy. Although - (whimpering) please don't hit me - I've actually bought one or two things from Skymall myself.

I watched the pilot and a couple of episodes. After finding out the Cylons looked like humans, Baltar wasn't a villain but a dupe trying to cover his tracks, etc., I decided it was going to be a gigantic squirming bait bucket of cliches.

One of the most remarkable Native artifacts I know of is a leather pouch from the Pawnee tribe with a star chart on the inside. Not a literal star chart, but an impressionistic view of the summer night sky from dusk till dawn. I had wanted to see this object for years, but when I visited the Field Museum a couple of…

Roger Moore. He had an urbane tongue in cheek style well suited to the character. Brosnan was good and so is Craig. I like Connery in just about everything but his male chauvinism was grating even at the time. His Bond was what "plastic" was meant to describe. Lazenby's only crime was not being Sean Connery. Dalton?…

Remember kids, drugs are a victimless crime. It's only the War on Drugs that wrecks lives.

We have them. They're called cats. A full-grown mini-tiger wouldn't have the cute body proportions of the cub. True domestication would take a long time. My Pomeranians have an ancestry that traces directly back to wolves via sled dogs, but it took centuries to get the Icelandic Spitz down to half size and decades…

You may be sad, but the cub seems very happy. He's got an interesting environment and a playmate. Later on, maybe another story. Is the cub being reared for eventual release?

Not a god. He was ready to burn Baltimore to the ground if Maryland tried to secede. But he did way more than most of his contemporaries. He was a creature of his time, but he was a pretty decent creature from a thoroughly shitty time.

Sorry. I think the correlations between the graph and Maya history are just too weak to take seriously.

Exactly what I told an RNC caller.