I made another post just now about this article in Vox, but I want to reply to you:

The recent upheaval in relations between “East and West” is especially saddening as both parties could be potent partners in tackling key global issues, such as the spread of Islamic Extremism, energy exploration and the environment, and other key challenges. Instead, Putin seems to have very different plans, and is…

I remember going down to DC with my mother years ago for the 1st “Million Moms March”. It was so long ago that I forgot the exact year (and I’m in a rush so I can’t google the year right now). But my point is that it got so much media attention all those years ago and yet we still can’t manage gun ownership in a…

I should have used these ideas when I was 31 and moved back home. I had just bought my first apartment, and was doing a total renovation of the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.

I didn’t download Just Watch, so I can’t compare, but I use Fan TV, which has a similar function:

I’m a little confused by what you said. God didn’t strike him dead for “spilling his seed” but because Onan disobeyed God’s order to impregnate his dead brother’s wife. Man, the God in the Old Testament had some fucking issues.

I bought him the Travel Qwirkle edition. I can’t to play it with him when it gets here. Thanks for the advice!

Hi — so I checked out your suggestions (meaning I read the descriptions on Amazon) and talked it over with my son and agreed he would like to try Rat-a-Tat-Cat. So I’m getting him that, plus Scattegories, Qwirkle, Appletters and Pairsinpears (the last two are made for kids by the Bananagrams folks). Thanks for the…

Exactly what I’m saying. I already cooked hamburgers, chicken and hotdogs last week on it and nope, no grill marks. I just bought the grill mesh that I wrote about in the previous post above:

Holy shit, this looks seriously hardcore. Now I have a crazy craving for eating charcoal basted in beef drippings. But I’ve got a Weber electric grill at home (this small boy right here: http://www.weber.com/grills/series/…). Ya think I’ll have any problems if I drop the steaks directly on the heating elements? :-)

I like your idea.

Thank you very much for these awesome suggestions! I promise you that I will research all of them.

Yes, French and Spanish only use the feminine and masculine genders (this is probably true of other Romance languages). For all its flaws in English, with its many, many exceptions because of all the foreign loanwords that get sucked in, I am really grateful that it only has a single gender. The very fact that there…

I agree with all this... theoretically. I took 4 years of German in college and while the sentence structure made sense, I just couldn’t wrap my head around THREE genders (feminine, masculine and neuter) and the tendency to create multi syllable nouns by compounding words. Conversational German just hurt my jaw. :-)

This is a great suggestion, thank you! I’ve tried the #2 (i.e., keeping tabs on the cards other players have) but it was just too much for him. But then again, we’ve only just begun in the last couple weeks. So I’ll be persistent...

This is a great and timely article. Any suggestions for teaching real world skills to a 6-year old autistic child?

A day late posting but another benefit I have read is helps calm anxieties in children with autism.

That’s not a very good argument to make.

If I could ask one question to Mr. Block it would be this:

Faux-latto is my new fave answer to when people ask me “What are you?”. It replaces my default “None of your damn business”.