Makes me wish my gamer buddy Marc was still alive, he would have absolutely loved this. don't console game, but this almost makes me want to spend some money and get one just for the memory.

I miss the old Civ when they gave you a choice, I think the alt to Gandhi was Ashoka. I also seem to remember the old benny to being India was your population never rioted when you changed government types. I should dig out my old discs and play again.

That would work for me, but again, I don't get motion sick at all. I love flying, and don't get the panic attack if I can't see everything that is going on.

I am agreeing with you, negatory to turning their sexism against them. Unfortunately they are vaguely within custom in the way they treat women not of their kith and kin. If they were capturing their own clan women or the women of the families that follow heir specific mufti then there would be a problem.

When we do one of our cross the country drive trips, I crank up the google and figure out where we are going to be every 450 miles or so. I pick out and make reservations for the hotel, and then I check out which restaurants are in the area and we decide if we are going to go out or make something in the room. We…

One of the reasons I recommend to people who ask me what do do after high school to give serious consideration to joining the military. It takes 10 REMF per guy at the pointy end of the stick so if you choose your MOS right, you have a decreased chance of being at the pointy end of the stick. The person simply needs…

I gave up dealing with it years back ... when you have chickens, you never get eggs that are old enough to peel easily. So when the egg thingies came on the market, we got a couple sets of them. Quick spritz of pan release spray, crack the egg into them, screw back together, drop into water and cook. I can go anywhere…

No, traditionally women are a prize of war, and as non-muslims or heretics, they are valid to purchase as slaves, and it is traditional to convert and marry slaves. In their eyes, they are doing nothing wrong.

And I hope some Repairman Jack decides they all need to come to bad ends and deals with them.

go to foodgawker.com it is all food porn. It is a 'clipper' that gets the best looking stuff from hundreds of blogs so I don't have to hit every single one every day =)

Worked in a restaurant, worked in a bar, dated my share of service folks - I do try to be a good customer.

Mark me down as another who always enjoyed the over the top campiness of this movie - way more than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I also loved Kiss Goodinight, and Earth Girls. With my medical issues, I have enough crap in my life, I don't need heartwarming shit womyn-empowering garbage, I need some…

Hm, a seitan roast - you can make a wonderful stuffing like you would for a thanksgiving turkey, vegetarian gravy, mashed potatoes and all.

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Hm, I was in the dating pool for about 10 years, from 18 until just before I turned 28. I found that men respond best to simple, well made food. Not fancy crap, but the basics. If you can do an absolutely killer baked potato, a perfect grilled steak and a tossed salad a guy is thrilled. Meatloaf, baked chicken, a…

My father-in-law was one of the staff photographers for the Blue Angels back in the late 1950s. Seriously jealous - imagine your military job is traveling with a show team!

OK, it is hard to attend classes while in the slammer, and not attending a certain number of classes will get you tossed out of the class, miss enough classes and get tossed out of school.

And how is that any different from what universities are doing now? Prefer hauling around your mattress? I suppose you could push the issue by taking a hammer to the face of the rapist ....

And if the woman never actually files a complaint and does a rape kit than how is it supposed to be added to any sort of investigation?

My opinion exactly. A crime is a crime, and if it isn't academic, then it should not be anything that the college is concerned about, other than to see where security screwed up and to repair it.