I blame climate change. Or Obama. Whichever, really.

Today's moral: Never take Numa for granite.

As long as that line is as straight and unyielding as the sea level rise graph, you're fine.

When we stop subsidizing oil companies billions of dollars, I'll be more concerned if environmentalists are causing an over-regulation of their drilling exploits. Until then, they can afford to engineer the smallest violin in the world, and have a specially trained musician play it for them on a public land they want…

Book your affair as a package deal with Ashley Madison, Dayuse, and our associate taxi services for discreet discounts today! Why spend more to spend a day cheating?

"It isn't the party of Clinton that's always up in arms about sex workers." Yes and no. There's a feminist strain that was against pornography and prostitution, but the loudest stink over porn and sex working in the modern environment is the Religious Right, so it's a bigger issue when a stalwart warrior of chastity…

But is that a causative relationship? I'd go out on a limb and expect there is also a link between the level of urbanity to a state and its stance on gun control. Do rural states have less violent crime because of less gun control, or do they not need to consider gun control since they're less densely populated?

I'm wondering if there's a relation between the spikes in near future sci-fi and either scientific optimism or the feeling of a major paradigm shift coming down the pipe. Like if nanotechnology finally matures, we might see another spike this decade or next.

Yes and no. The interesting part is that you can see in different religions these different factors being mashed up in different ways. For example, there's a common preponderance of gods for phenomena which were random and violent (storms, lightning, volcano). It at once gave definition to what they faced, a reason…

That's an interesting study. One thing that stands out is the possible link between civic thought and religious thought. I've figured for some time that religion is basically a mash-up of mythology, philosophy, and sociopolitical organization. In that regard, it would make sense that connecting to a sense of community…

Okay, guy.

Porn? On a TV? Is that still a thing?

The upgrade of format is always something of a catch-22: why film for a new format that nobody owns, when nobody buys the devices because there's no content?

I have an urge to make a montage of these pics with "My Heart Will Go On". lol "The Prom of the Unsinkable Dock"

Best way to make this point in Congress, thanks to the "Tanning Lady" - a 72 hour waiting period on tanning booth use and spray tanning. Destroying your skin is a life-changing decision. Orange you glad the government intervened?

There's a key difference mentioned there, though... oil doesn't have anywhere near the re-useability of copper. Unless some major breakthrough occurs to fix that, we will eventually hit the point where the cost to extract more costs greatly more to where prices must accelerate rapidly. We seem to have a growing buffer…

When I was little, my first computer was a Tandy 2000 SL2, and it came with an online service that looked remarkably similar to that one. So it might've been the first one, but it wasn't alone by the mid '80s.

Not only that, but teen pregnancy can get you paid!* It almost feels like some Bizarro World stuff with her and MTV. "Girls! Don't let some guy ruin your life with sex! But... if he -does-, here's our card. Get in touch with our talent coordinator, and maybe you can something good out of a tragic accident."

Thank you. I was very randomly inspired.

And this is why porn download abstinence is a bad idea. We should teach proper storage contraception techniques to keep these STDs (Screen-Transmitted Diddles) from getting into our classrooms. Pulling out the memory stick is not safe!