Condom distribution is spotty in NYC; in order to give them out, faculty must attend a training day and get separate certification, and then only they are given the big boxes of condoms and are allowed to hand them out. Generally every school will have at least one such faculty member (in the guidance office if…

As a straight male, I try to make a point to always hit on creepy dudes I see hitting on obviously uninterested women on the subway, preferably with the same language/body language they are using on the girl. Skips the 'beat em up' chest pounding and goes right for the throat. It is impossible for a creeper's ego…

...So why didn't you just quit the team and go do something actually fun that you enjoyed? There wasn't a scholarship on the line; the Ivy Leagues are full of student-athletes who got recruited for a sport, dropped the team in the first month, and proceeded to have a perfectly acceptable four years of not being…

There's so much wrong with that last para I don't know where to start.

Is it bad that I'm actually a little relieved that the Iranian nuclear physics, compsci, and EE cadres will remain sausagefests of incompetence? Maybe this apparent misogyny is just some extremely clever Mossad cultural subversion.

Seems like a bit of a leap to assume that it's responding to a hardwired propensity... we generally tend to bootstrap our own drivers instead of using off-the-shelf. Could be it just mapped the opposite hemisphere to make the phantom hand. Maybe if it had been RN's regular hand that was amputated they would have…

Don't forget to cast a Shakespearean-trained, legitimate actor to play the captain. They screwed that up bad with 'Enterprise.' I'm convinced that Captain Bakula is a big part of the reason that turkey flopped.

Another new tech coming down the pipeline are tiny little remote-controlled bots that doctors can steer around inside the body using an external electromagnet setup. At the moment they're just working on them for your guts (they're a souped-up version of those swallowable pillcams) but if you can make them small…

I find that the best process is iterative; make something, then use it, then make something better that fixes what didn't work last time. Your dad probably works in a similar way- I bet this wasn't the first bathroom he tore apart. I try to work like zeno's paradox- if each iteration improves at least half the…

I guess the new hats are similar to the old hats in the sense they are both hats? The old one looks to be a totally standard BDU-style forage cap, vs. the new peaked Soviet Bloc monstrosity. Because when you're in space, what you really need is a big dumb hat that wouldn't fit inside a spacesuit. Also, giant…

This makes perfect sense to me. How are the Catholics going to masturbate during the baseball game to all those tight little butts in polyester if there were a little girl running around amongst all those delicious young boys? It throws you off your stroke; total boner poison. What would even be the point? …

How strict are the rules on who or what constitutes a 'date'? I took a bottle of worcestershire sauce as my date to my junior prom. I guess my school was a bit less nitpicky. And my date put out! All over the canapes. Right in front of everyone. Awesome.

well he's wearing a tuxedo. obviously he must be a gentleman.

Ok, what, um, what should we call them then, besides 'assholes?' What flavor jewish is this, if not orthodox, so I know which synagogues to dress in a giant burkha in the dead of night, christo and jeanne-claude-style?

This sound clip DESTROYS headaches. No joke.

great! hit me up when you graduate- i'll hire you!

If you're a young Mormon and you're trying to be 'hip,' you're doing it wrong.

How about instead of saying they're fathers or mothers, sperm and egg donors refer to the children they've 'sired' or 'generated'? Like on horse pedigrees. We just need another way of saying 'father and 'mother' that aren't so loaded.

Speaking as a former donor, a major purpose of the exercise from my perspective was to produce lots of kids. The money was great, don't get me wrong, but from a Darwinian perspective it's difficult to argue against. I did it at a time when I was a broke student, and probably ten years away from having…

At a different point in the debate, Bachmann said she 'respected' Sarah Palin. Does that mean that she submits to Palin?