While the bomber, given what I know of his associations, had extreme ideology, and it is conceivable that he was bombing for an ideological reason, at this point there is no released evidence that this was the case. Terrorism is not just anything that causes terror. Any time a radical environmentalist kills someone or…

I think I would need a few more cups of coffee or wine to successfully craft a joke out of that.

1) The government doesn’t confiscate cars unless they are seizing your assets, although they do take away licenses to operate, and cars must pass inspection, so cars can become illegal to operate over time as they degrade or air quality standards change over time and they are judged to have dangerous levels of…

1) Cars are sold between owners in private sales and you still have to officially transfer the title and register at the DMV. While I am sure there are some unregistered cars out there, and it is much easier to catch them because police can run tags, I still think that the large majority of gun owners are law abiding.

1) On registration, having guns registered will make it easier for police to track down what exactly a violent or disturbed person owns if they are flagged ahead of time in states with gun protection orders.

The only time I wash my vests or parkas is generally after I have been in a pizza place or coffee shop and they reek. Otherwise, maybe once a year.

It took my dad schooling me on the racism of the LAPD to understand, as a white 18-year-old, why black people were actually rooting for OJ. My befuddlement had nothing to do with a black man murdering a white woman. It was just that I watched the whole stupid van chase and generally it was obvious that he did it. So…

One of my favorites ever. I need some sort of time and space traveling device so I can steal it from her and go back 10 years and wear it to my own wedding. And also transform into a supermodel...

The real scandal is that it is Papa John’s.

I don’t know. After a year of intensive laser and silicone treatments, and in the pictures I’ve seen she already has a ton of makeup on, how much better can it get? I scar really easily though, so have a few surgical scars that never faded as much as they were supposed to.

I did a study abroad in Rio in college back in the 90s and took a really awesome class on syncretic religions. I wonder if I read her book?

Hmmmm. Maybe since being a decorated neurosurgeon he secretly had his brain replaced by one belonging to a dumb white guy. That would explain a few things.

Ha. I am wearing that same bra right now but in polka dot.

In this whole MeToo era there have been multiple stories of male celebrities groping women’s butts during photo ops and vice versa. Franken, Taylor Swift. One of my high school friends recounted how a guy she just met stuck his hands down the back of her pants at a party. This shit happens a lot. Women, especially…

What the everloving fuck?

I wouldn’t be surprised if women are making smarter choices in that particular situation. The whole setup is doomed to failure in either case - setting up a competition to have the contestants pursue someone they might not normally like, putting them in an intense situation and then separate them with little contact…

COLONEL! I can’t believe I forgot that one. It is worse than sergeant.

Oh my god. Reading your comment for some reason finally made me remember the word I was trying to link of. Sergeant. When I am talking I pronounce it correctly (sargent) but when I am reading it out loud I say “sergent”. Also it took me awhile to realize that lieutenant is the same thing as the British word pronounced…

I used to read the etymologies in the dictionary for fun in high school AND wrote one of my college essays about it. Not sure I actually got into that school....

I’m glad I am not the only one. I think it happens a lot to us book-loving introverts. I can sing Rock a Bye Baby correctly, yet when I actually see the word “bough” I want to pronounce it to rhyme with toe. This is happening a lot now that I have kids I have to read aloud to and are asking me how to pronounce things.