The A-10: only plane ever built AROUND the gun. They invented that mad bastard, then had to figure out a way to get it in the air!

IT'S UVB-76!!

For socially-acceptable groups, yes. For everybody else, nah. A good ol' sidearm will do just fine, thanks!

Some sportswriters back then seemed to have had the vernacular of a slaveowner in the 19th century.

Why don't they just admit it was a fantastic run, and end the thing already? And this is coming from a fan who religiously recorded and watched every episode from Seasons 1-10. It's just kinda, y'know.....run it's course.

Seconded. (Thirded?)

Muammar Gaddafi IS Charlotte Chuhihourne IN Bleach!

"I'm at a very good place," Vick says. "Very relaxed. Things are more laid back right now as far as football, and off the field. No stress, no pressure. Even though, when you play football, there is always some sort of pressure. But at this stage of my career, I'm just trying to refresh and regroup and see where it…

Details aside, the idea that the FIRST reaction these women had was self-doubt, trying to figure out what THEY did wrong, or what THEY did to deserve this is the entire sad proof of the entrenched nature of the 'rape culture'. The culture exists, and strengthens, based on that cornerstone requirement: the victims…

Torre speaks to an essential truth of so many conditions that I've run across in my career—a flawed belief that they aren't 'normal', or 'okay', and that they're the only ones who feel or think that way. It's frustrating, because it's so heartbreaking. The key is to get them to open up in the first place, so that…

I used to really love me some Jell-O, but I could never make it without that gross, unedible layer of.....crust, maybe? That chewy part, which should never be associated with a rubbery concoction such as this. So I treated it much like I treat most of my interpersonal relationships—I got rid of the entire fucking…

It occurs to me that if we could somhow actually experience the detonation of a modern nuclear device (without literally experiencing it, of course) , we would instantly move to have them abolished from existence. Computer simulations, charts/graphs, and bland numbers are good, but are too abstract to have the…

These would seem to be obvious partial solutions to the problem of finding suitable housing for the homeless. Renovation, overhaul, complete the staffing requirements, and there you have it. Some floors/units could be used as schools, or small medical clinics, or trade schools/workshops....these buildings are large…

They do, and it's money poorly-spent. It looks good and sounds good, and it's a real pain in the ass trying to get on a plane these days, but the fact of the matter is that we're in no way adequately defended from a small-scale threat within our own borders.

So, all of these people are, essentially, paying for murder, then. Got it.

Notre Dame seems like a school that rides a magic carpet of history, glossed up with a thin film of memory. Sure, they were once a shining example of good, midwestern values paired with strong young men, with hearts and minds of pure strength and values and strength!

Every time I read a story like this, I always go back to Hugh Howey's "I, Zombie", which was utterly fantastic. I know that's not the only book that deals with a reversed POV, but Howey gave such an overwhelmingly detailed and horrific picture of a vision of life from the zombie's perspective, it's stuck with me on a…

Romero himself said he used the zombies as a metaphor for societal breakdown, which is a theme that was echoed by Brooks in World War Z (the BOOK; not the flick, which might as well have been another movie altogether). The zombies are used as an irresistable force that survivors have to adapt to, or die tryin' (to…

SWEET! It's a reactive, prohibitively expensive, nonsensical, and useless reaction to something that isn't much of a viable threat any longer! Even if the threat was extreme, an ABM defense system isn't the way to defend against it, because just like there's only ONE bird in the world who can catch another bird in a…

True, ALS isn't funny. I've seen people die from it, and it's an awful, nightmarish illness. Thing is, you have to appeal to people, which means your cause has to have a certain appeal FOR people. This is a way people can get involved, because it's kinda fun and silly, and people, for whatever reason, like things…