I'm thinking the poison boom may correlate to either access to info via the internet, real crime shows, or both.

Maybe it's pregnant.

I used to take animals to elementary schools and teach science assemblies and do classroom presentations. It was low paying with lots of time on the road, so there was a lot of turn over of employees. The parrots would test the new people with aggression and biting. The crow would plain fuck with their minds. He…

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+1 internets.

There is a place for you in Valhalla.

Freedom of speech has to do with government entities curtailing one's speech.

Everything bad that happens to America is because America stopped being a Christian nation and shields sinners like gays. God has withdrawn his divine protective shield that he once used to keep America safe. So, the argument goes, they should go and protest at high profile and/or military funerals to highlight how…

Except he was a troll even then. One of his sons broke away from the family cult and has written extensively about a childhood full of mental cruelty and physical abuse. He also mentioned that his father took all the civil rights cases for the notoriety and money.

Exactly- it's a shake down clothed in religious zealotry.

I like Nasmith's landscapes, but don't think he's much of an illustrator of human (or Elven/Dwarven, etc.) form.

The more you read about Tolkien, he comes across very much as an intellectual snob and curmudgeon, especially as he got older. I love his work, but I get the feeling that he kind of couldn't stand most of the fans of his work, finding them mentally not up to his standards.

I think Queen Margrethe's art is very similar to Tolkien's, which looks a lot like Scandinavian wood carving art from the middle ages.

He just called the Eagles when he needed to fly.

Great building! It was boarded up for decades- glad to see it's getting a new lease on life.

I spent a lot of time, mostly weekends, pretty much across the street from Cass Tech, gutting an abandoned picture framing business building and refurbishing it. The crazy thing is that the school wasn't even empty all that long before it looked like something out of an apocalyptic film.

OK.

Add Belmopan, Belize.

I think for some people, it's not just a matter of taste. Some people are getting nauseated and/or migraines from watching 48 fps.

Right as to which syllable is stressed, but pretty much only post-Chaucer English among the Indo-European languages pronounces "i" the way we do. For everyone else, it's "ee."