Believe me, it's even more strange when you leave southeast Michigan for another state. Today someone said, "WF in Detroit!" to me, and it took a few minutes before I realized they were telling me this because I'm from the area.

I can honestly say that our elected (or appointed, as the case may be) officials have really convinced me of my own ethos. I don't care if you have an affair, or if you have a coke habit, or if you want to text pictures of your dick to another consenting adult. I just want you to be a good politician.

There are two things that I wonder about:

There's an ignored side to the story, which is simply: Insurance companies will give you jack shit for real treatment.

Eh. I hate smelling smoke as much as the next person— allergies, take it as you will— but this is an extension of basic decency. I do not understand why smoking is banned in bars; that strikes me as ridiculous.

No, it is not a "midwest" thing. I think it might be more specifically just a generic way to cope with the fact that there are a lot of kids vastly "overgeared" for the system, to using a gamer's terminology. How the hell do you decide on one valedictorian when you literally cannot distinguish between fifty students?

I did not read the column. Not because I disagree with any sentiment, nor because I am here defend comic books.

Perhaps, just perhaps, if other people are using a term to describe you, it may be true regardless of whether or not you yourself agree with it.

'Bitch' is by far a better thing to be than someone who admits to believing something without knowing why. We have other, far worse terms of people like that.

So what peer-reviewed, primary literature published data provided irrefutable data correlating cancer, sterility and GMOs?

As genetic engineering is concerned, it is not a virus that is used. It is a plasmid, or a small circular piece of DNA used in conjunction with restriction enzymes to incorporate a segment of DNA into other DNA. And then into the germline cells.

If you cannot fully and completely iterate an argument you allowed to convince you of one position, you have no business whatsoever holding to that position.

You would have to label all food, everywhere, as "GMO". Whether you used recombinant DNA to introduce a desired trait into corn, or you opted for the species of corn that grows the tallest, it's GMO.

I consider people other than myself when in public. I am patient and do not hurry others. I am quiet and go out of my way to not disturb other people. I clean up after myself, I work very hard, and I ask for extremely little in return.

I always wondered about the male/female divide in comedy. Especially in the documentaries about SNL, you see male comedians just outright stating that women cannot be funny.

These just don't look like real men. I mean, I also Nair my chest and back, but I'm not nearly so ripped. I'm just a gay guy who dislikes body hair.

I'm all for attractive male specimens being displayed, but those pants sit literally just above his penis. I'm surprised we aren't seeing his pubes, because that's what we're looking at.

I like to think this story is the real Ouroborous for Reagan: His dumb ass was saved by other federal workers. Only through federal agency could he replace another federal agency.

Oh, I want nice things, but you are damn straight I am not willing to "work hard" for them.

Just so long as their corporate executives made hundreds of millions of dollars. I think we can all rest easy at night knowing that the people responsible for profit received the least of it and are jobless.