A cantaloupe? Damn!

This woman is purely awesome and courageous as hell. To run a full marathon at 44 is also impressive - often knee damage to serious runners by that age has them doing half-marathons instead. 5.5 hours with photo breaks and without water stations is pretty damn decent, too. So much excellence here.

You’re not wrong. “MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. GET MORE PEOPLE TO MAKE MORE MONEY.” (Direct quote, capitalization original.) There’s a dual focus of worship in Scientology - Source, and money. And when you make money, it should go to Source (or COB, now), so he can clear the planet! The one good idea Elron ever had -…

Sorry, no coffee yet. I can be remarkably blind to internet humor before coffee.

I missed this story yesterday, but today all I can think is ‘What the fucking fuck is WRONG with these fucking...people, I guess you’d call them?’

100 people times $200-$600/month = $20,000-$60,000/month (call it $35k, maybe). Minus expenses to rent the room for weekly meetings, it probably leaves him with at least $15-$30k/month for himself. Small-time doesn’t imply unprofitable or non-predatory.

All it really takes is charisma, a little bit of money (you make more money off the members later), a terrifying lack of morals, brass balls the size of pumpkins, and a willingness to exploit people at their most vulnerable. L Ron Hubbard called it “find[ing] their ruin”.

I’d guess there’s some kind of transference going on here. I bet these people are the same types who would spout insane rhetoric about the need to defend “their blood” and “their friends” from any & all perceived attacks. Except that when such perceived attacks occur in an IRL situation, one often has to…

The differential between what Uber/Lyft have contributed ($8 million) compared to what all the taxi companies in Austin have contributed ($54k, and I assume that in a city the size of Austin, there are more than two cab companies) is an indication of how little the cab companies can afford to pay up to try and stack…

Drink of choice of Juggalos. Do not imbibe.

de rigueur

You’re right; I looked it up too, out of curiosity. Although it appears that after the Norman Conquest, English speakers did pattern the usage of thou/thee on tu/vous as far as the respectful or formal form went. Nonetheless, thee was never a plural form at all and I was misremembering something I learned at the age…

It’s thee, I think. If I remember right, thee and thou functioned like tu and vous in French. As in, one was singular (thou) and one was plural (thee), EXCEPT when being formal, when you used the plural to address a single person. And then the Quakers got into it when the convention was on its way out, and muddied the…

Very much agree. I’m lucky - I *can* use just about anything, unlike a lot of women. But my experience suggests I’m in the minority on this one.

Once realized at the beginning of an 80-minute class right after lunch that I had managed to bleed through the tampon I’d put in right before lunch. Asked to go to the bathroom. No, you had time to go during lunch, said my crotchety old science teacher. 12-year-old me was too ashamed to say buddy I will bleed all over…

Kick them in the lower abdomen and small of the back.

Poor-ass motherfucker here, endorsing your statement. I buy no name tampons as a rule because they’re cheap, Tampax when they’re on sale because the applicators don’t pinch, and the only thing I won’t buy is o.b. - but only because my wife has rheumatoid arthritis and can’t apply a tampon that lacks an applicator. No…

K, so I’m late to this, as usual, but all this Nancy Grace talk reminded me of the fine work done by Cathy Jones on This Hour Has 22 Minutes up here in Canuckistan. Here she is as Betty Hope — a clear parody of that parody of a woman.

Are you a stock-photo model, by any chance?

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo? (Apparently there’s some way of getting about 7 repetitions of buffalo thrown together in a way that still has meaning. But I can only keep track of five, because I am slow and tired and can’t say buffalo that many times in a row without my tongue getting confused. But…