I am a 34 year old male and I have a $500,000 term life policy that costs me less than $5 a paycheck. My wife (33) also has a $500,000 policy that costs her less than $4 a paycheck.

Unless you have a family. I don't know anyone with a spouse or kids that doesn't have life insurance. So, I think you are wrong saying that "most people don't go around buying life insurance." In fact, it is a pretty selfish not to buy it if you have loved ones.

I am curious, why don't you just dual boot Windows on your MacBook Pro?

Robert, I believe the Fresh Prince would like a few words.

I applaud your effort.

In my undergraduate days I had a WWII class that was hard. Like, it was the classical definition of memorizing dates, battles, generals, weapons, etc. but towards the end of the semester the professor "wasted" two classes by showing the Kenneth Brannagh film "Conspiracy". A film about men sitting around a dinner…

For those curious. Here is a link to an excellent collection of important websites from the same era via the Internet Archive.

In 1996, it would have been an excellent example of a professionally produced website.

The original Space Jam website created in 1996 to promote the movie is still alive.

I am not that old, but old enough to know the joke, which makes me feel old that I even know the meme before there were memes.

Thank you for demonstrating everything wrong with the conservative movement today.

'I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to,' said Arthur, 'It's heartless.'

I am no expert, but isn't that what Hofstadter was getting at in Godel, Escher, Bach? That seemingly meaningless components when they are arranged in self-referential loops "can" give rise to self-awareness.

This brought a tear to my eye.

DUAN: Who else gives themselves a little Hitler 'stache when shaving?

BMI is complete garbage. I have learned from countless internet comments, that the vast majority of people falling into the obese category are not actually fat, but built of toned (not to mention dense) muscle, have larger than average skeletal structures and that the chart was changed in the '80s, or was it the '90s…

What is NASA hiding? There is obviously some conspiracy afoot to hide some crucial bit of information about the surface of Mars.

That actually is too bad. Uncle Tom's Cabin is actually a pretty decent book (especially when looked at within the historical context).

The contribution of Park to the RAF can not be underestimated but his abilities would have been for naught without the brilliance of Lord Beaverbrook in turning the tiny island nation into a non-stop aircraft producing behemoth.

Let us not forget the importance of radar to sci-fi (or as he preferred SF). Sir Arthur C. Clarke was the chief training instructor for RADAR at RAF Honiley. He spent the war training soldiers in the art of RADAR and those years spent monitoring the skies above Britain clearly led to the inspiration for his first…