I carry it mainly for the 2 legged predators.

Given that I’ve gone on numerous backpacking trips out west (PCT, Glacier, to name 2) and have been bluff charged by a black bear, I’m going to say I’m comfortable with my stance on this one. I’ve never seen the point of a gun (when not hunting) when my voice and maybe a rock will do along with a reasonable amount of…

This. It took me a couple of tries but I did find a driving school in my area that taught stick. The car had the instructor’s clutch and gas and everything. Besides teaching me to get into start reliably (my biggest problem when I tried to learn from my parents...long story as to why that didn’t work out), it also…

I’m a huge advocate of gun safety classes in schools. Kids shouldn’t be taught to fear guns, but they should be taught to respect them the same way you respect fire and sharp tools.

How is a gun going to protect you in the wilderness? Anything that can be killed with a single shot (except other people) will be scared off if you yell. Anything bigger than that (grizzlies) will only be pissed off.

They’re an evolution of the way homes were “sold” to blacks and immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (I don’t remember what the specific mechanism was called but landlords would have people sign “rent to own” contracts on houses and then repossess the house when the tenants couldn’t pay. See Sinclair’s…

Depending on what the wall is supporting and how you want the floor plan to change, the engineer may have had to basically redesign the house. Example, I once worked on the plans for a McMansion where the owner didn’t want any walls to support the double curved stairway in the entry way. That was WAY more complicated…

A pass through isn’t much of an improvement compared with the idea of tearing out the whole load bearing wall. You still have to support that gap somehow, just framing it in with 2x6s generally won’t cut it.

Who brought that piece of nonsense out of the grays because...damn.

I would have punched him in the face after that last quote.

My friend who made one for her wedding knew how heavy it was so we ended up making a throwing bouquet out of the bows and decorations from the bridal shower.

Read the translations of the French, Russian, and Chinese anthems. The French especially.

To be fair, the US anthem is pretty low on the list of most violent anthems.

My thing is that it looks like a Honda in the same way a samsung S2 looked like an iPhone 3G

I know about this solely because it came up that I had terrified my parents a couple of times with croup when I was 2-3 after I read “Anne of Green Gables” and was talking about the Ipecac scene. Apparently there was one marathon session where it wasn’t severe enough for the ER but my parents were trading off keeping…

Perhaps other states will start following suit to get in on this marijuana cash cow.

Are we going to talk about the atrocious lighting the Japanese goalie had for the first half of the game? 3 out of the 4 goals in that half were because the US was shooting from in front of the sun.

Me too. Truth in satire I guess. And another reason to watch that movie soon.

A professor of mine in college was working on the structural design of the propellers for some Navy grants. Some wicked stuff came out of the aerodynamic analysis.

Vaginismus is my problem and thankfully there’s a PT clinic in my area that a) specializes in pelvic floor PT (harder to find than you might think) and b) takes my insurance. I was first clued into this when my gyno had to take a couple of tries to get the speculum in during my pelvic exam when it didn’t use to be a…