"Why do we need more than three samples?"

Adorable baby sloth is adorable

If I could trade my dog's poop for free wi-fi I'd have OC3

"Until I feel resistance". Does that mean you get groped until you sock the TSA drone?

Eh, I've read the police reports. There were witnesses.

Congratulations to her. She did everything right, stopped the crime and collared the bad guy.

Playing the mandolin is pretty innocuous.

Until I can get tentacles, webbed feet and a three-foot sticky tongue I'm not interested. But if I do Mrs. Tsathoggua won't let me near ladies or lady frogs.

Oh, for fark's sake! Can't they play something more rational and less harmful like Reptiloid British aristos, chemtrails and anal probing by big-eyed aliens?

If she were legit there would be a bunch of very simple things she could demonstrate where the prediction would not change the outcome. A few obvious candidates are astronomical events, archeological finds, weather data and the location of as-yet-undiscovered geological features.

Oh. My. I'm going to have to see this one. Seriously, check out Rains' book. She was originally researching sewing machines and changed focus when she started seeing all the vibrator ads in old catalogs.

A shaman? Was he missing any fingers? Did he regularly go off, starve himself, take strange drugs and otherwise push himself past the limits of sanity to break through his normal consciousness? Did he have The Look of Eagles (if you've ever seen it you'll know what I'm talking about)?

We are social animals. How we think of ourselves is affected by how others react to us.

Special sticker on your report card for that one. Well played!

Calling women crazy for being women has a long and shameful history.

Completely agree. They deserve to be stripped of their medical licenses and thrown in jail. If a random yob was running around cutting of little girls' clitorises he would be in jail until the next Ice Age. But wear a white coat and do it in the operating theater, and you get treated so much better.

These guys have a bunch of suitable ones from the Baby Jesus Butt Plug to the Diving Nun Dildo

They are probably not all men. In Africa most of the practitioners are women. There has been some success in training them as midwives and community health nurses to make up for the lost income.

Yes, it is the best way to combat it. Every time there's been an accomodation the exception has swallowed the rule. See Egypt where every attempt to discourage and medicalize the practice has quickly returned to coercion and business as usual.

Oh, for fuck's sake. It's always about the pee-pee, isn't it?