I really feel like this is kind of key. One way the medium affects the experience is that the sites allow the greatest opportunity to what I believe is a minority of guys that abuse the systems: cutting and pasting messages to a hundred girls a day, writing "hey" to a hundred girls a day, sending dick pics, etc. The…

An Alaska town got a "free" prototype catamaran of similar design. Their "free" ship has cost them several million dollars in upkeep charges. Fair to say the expense of having that boat is not the getting, but the keeping.

Just re-read the article. Passing wasn't a bad play; it was a play with a good chance of success that was measurably and obviously worse than another play with an even better chance of success and less risk. Passing wasn't stupid; deciding to pass instead of deciding to run was stupid.

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Coffee grounds (like coffee) are highly acid. You could probably accomplish the same effect with any highly acid substance: lemon juice, the above-mentioned citrus peels . . . hell, you could probably leave a bowl of coca-cola out and have the same effect.

His hips don't lie, his toes don't fit in factory-made shoes. A little bit of both parents.

I see a lot of people whose driving style in the snow exudes the attitude that paying $50k for a full-size truck entitles them to drive like it's not snowing at all.

Yeah, this would be my major correction or addition to the article. Don't use your brake, or more correctly, put yourself in a position not to need your brake.

Ties are also a vector for disease spread in health care settings. They end up at face level every time a doctor bends down to examine a patient, dangling into the exhaled air from a patient, or sometimes onto the patient's skin. They are essentially never cleaned.

It's Colorado law. The link below suggests that you can report the accident online, not to a police officer, but only if (among other things) DUI is not suspected.

I would imagine part of the point of doing this would be so the Ranch DOESN'T become Graceland. In addition to providing affirmative treatment to kids, using the ranch therapeutically would prevent someone from turning it into a shrine that glosses over some of the private scandals of Jackson's life.

No. The reason Sullivan was a First Amendment case was because it was about libel laws. Even if a private person makes use of the courts, the First Amendment impacts how libel laws can be written and interpreted. A person going to court and invoking American laws is making use of governmental authority in a way that…

Eh, those conspiracies theories are frequently barely-concealed sexism. Lots of people don't want to believe that a woman from a small Southern town could write a great novel; believing that a more prominent man wrote it is less hard to swallow. I've never seen a solid rundown of how her style was so similar to…

Friendly reminder: Lance Armstrong surviving cancer and losing a testicle is the least funny thing about him.

Yeah, I gotta disagree with Drew here: the first thing that happens in war is that the two countries at war close their borders. You won't be able to drive from Toronto to Detroit with just your passport, and "we are at war with them" is a really good reason to deny a visa.

If you think a little acid on the junk is going to keep a man from hurting other women, I suggest you rethink that logic. If anything, I'd think being physically mutilated could make many men more likely to hurt women in the future.

Anybody who wants to witness the cleansing hand of the free market just needs to take a cruise.

If a woman takes the time to explain how flirting works (or, more precisely, doesn't work), and your response is to argue with her about how she (and much of the rest of womankind) flirt, maybe flirting and basic human interaction isn't for you?

Of course, I agree we should help people whenever possible to stay with their kids. And I have no illusions that the child welfare system in our country is functional or helpful to women in crisis. I was responding to the comments above that tilted all the way to endorsing exposing your child to abuse and neglect as…

It doesn't matter, in the child welfare context, whether a mom is doing the best she can. If she's not meeting her kids' basic survival needs, the kids deserve a safe home regardless of her best efforts. Some people doing the best they can still can't meet their kids basic needs for daily care because they are very…