I use it when reading if I'm having trouble imagining a location or time period. I like that it's public, so it doesn't feel like I'm wasting my time collecting images of, say, London during the Peasant Revolt or Boston post Civil War - meaning someone else might get some use out of it.

The real estate agent can be your worst enemy in this regard. As soon as they know you're income / debt ratio, they'll push you towards real estate that you can just barely afford.

In the 60's, we also had Sophia Loren, Jane Fonda (who's thighs definitely touched as seen in Barbarella), Claudia Cardinale, and Barbra Streisand - all played desirable women in films and none were Twiggy types. I think each decade has a pretty good mix of body types representing "beauty" because in film, looks can't…

...but essentially it boils down to this: How would your life be better if you owned fewer material possessions?

I have too and I'm also sane (relatively). When you live in a house where the "activity" is seen by multiple witnesses, you don't have the luxury of convincing yourself that it didn't happen.

That sounds great, I'm going to look into the bibimbap. I'm just starting to learn Japanese cooking, and it might share at least some of the basic ingredients with Korean recipes. It would be nice to learn both since there are so many Korean owned around here.

That looks yummy! We have large Korean community here (and some good stores), but I've never tried to make it. My Japanese mil will be learning from a Korean friend on Friday, and she said it's complicated. But your recipe looks just fine to me. I'll have to share yours with her to see if it's similar.

Yum... kimchi. That's a great idea. How do you make yours?

If a compulsive eater is furtively stealing food to binge at work, shaming notes might just fuel the behavior. And a greed-motivated thief will just shrug off the note - they've already decided they deserve what's yours.

I was disappointed, too. Where are the robots exploring and building on other planets? Where are the exotic looking robots that were designed to walk like insects or to go from 2-legs to 4 and back again? I was hoping for something beautiful and inventive - something that inspired dreams of an amazing future. That's…

It will come in style again. That's what they're waiting for, you know? Like when you can't get rid of that gorgeously embroidered bolero jacket from early 90's. Just waiting...

Amen and amen. Michigan folk love leaving the cities to spend weekends in the woods and waters, so we look forward to tooth-rattling, construction-caused, traffic jams every Friday and Sunday from May through September. Come to Michigan, where you have to pass through hell to get to paradise.

I heard this in Tina Belcher's voice for some reason.

Costco has an American Express membership card with cash back. My cash back rewards pay for membership every year. It's works great as long as you use the card for restaurants, gas, and other "everyday" items that are in your budget.

Well, I tried. I'm not really sure why you believe that doctors, hospitals and pharmaceuticals are completely risk free or why you believe the FDA is the all-encompassing safety net. I guess you've never experienced the horrifying circus of emergency medical care when they aren't sure how to treat someone, or…

It's you who don't know. Sorry. This isn't propaganda. It's insider knowledge about a sad, often ineffective bureaucracy. Yes, it does work sometimes, but the public is the last piece of any drug trial. That's just how it works. I'm grateful that there are a lot of good, reliable medications out there, but just…

Hmmm... you seemed so confident... I thought you must be aware that Cipro is being handed out like candy for mild infections. Doctors fall prey to the same logical fallacies as everyone else. "It cures infections, everyone uses it, it must be safe." When faced with black box side effects, they refuse to believe their…

Healthy.

Unfortunately, it's all too common. There's a lazy revolving door mentality in GP offices these days: antibiotics, antidepressants, and pain pills. Then they whine and say that people are making them push drugs.

I wish that were true. Some medically accepted pharmaceuticals are really useful and some... aren't. The ones that don't work, or that cause more harm than good, have passed regulatory scrutiny, have been deemed "ethical" and are called "medicine."