Sure it is a neurological disorder but unlike most neurological disorders it is not something that one lives with or through. It don't soldier on like Micheal J Fox or Katherine Hepburn, you succumb most painfully and terribly, trapped inside an inert body.

Attention to diseases comes from either cause celebre as in…

You could argue the same thing about terrorist attacks as well but we spend well and above any of the amounts that these things need on prevention terrorist attacks in this country.

Why can't ALS get a few minutes of time? So what if it conflicts with a major disease in another country. There are always major diseases…

Meredith,

Just to be clear: ALS is not a neurological disorder it is a short term death sentence with no cure, no treatment and no way out.

I feel like I saw this video in your last post regarding the a'threatenin' stuff because I remember remarking to myself that I would like to hear this thing without the John Tesh at full volume.

Peter Frates an ex-baseball player with ALS started it essentially. http://www.alsa.org/news/archive/i…

You work at a restaurant where you wash dishes regularly for people that pay to have you prepare food for them. This is really a huge waste of water, how hard is to eat at home.

Let's not even talk about all the ice that the fish comes packed in or the greens that are grown in the desert, picked, processed in large…

The reason is that anyone can get ALS. One day you wake up and your fingers can't type as efficiently. You will go to the doctor and then other doctors and other specialists until they rule out all the other diseases it can be, then they will tell you that you probably have ALS, give you a list of symptoms and…

I saw someone shared a video on my facebook feed, from a rich canadian I didn't know, who not only did the ice bucket challenge but stated he would donate $10 per share of his video to the cause up to $10k, as well as an additional donation up to $15k CDN to the canadian ALS organizations.

This is what I wish these…

I'd say the main difference is that Ferguson is an ingrain issue in our society where words from one celebrity or another won't sway the conversation one bit, we need a national dialog and perhaps the next ice bucket challenge social media darling can be for better race relations or whatever but for ALS words from…

Watched Captain Philips recently, very amazing movie!

I've read in the Heart of the Sea but I will check out the rest, thanks!

Ok ok I will move it to the top of my list right now!

I love mariner stories, from the Perfect Storm to Captain and Commander. Maybe it is being from land locked locations all my life but the sea and its stories just call to me.

I have it on my netflix queue but it has yet to arrive. There are many youtube videos as well showing them as well as other things falling off boats and then there is the amazing lego filled one that has been littering the shores of the UK with lego for ages now.

I will move this up on the queue so I can finally see…

The original Star Wars Trilogy when they first came out. Back before the internet was full of spoilers the only way to know what a movie was going to present was by going to the theater.

The thrill of lining up and seeing star wars in the theater is something I won't forget but it is almost pale in comparison the…

I guess the important question is how many will be offloaded at its port of call? As I recall these things shed containers quite regularly. Hell this ship hits heavy sees and it could easily lose a ton of those containers.

Ditto. Watching a strong intelligent man or woman die rapidly with no hope of a cure or even retarding the process is horrible. I also lost my father. Not pleasant. I was a young teen and it has been decades with seemingly no advances.

So ~$2million for a car that could be a future 250 GTO level collector or close to $2million for the newest hypercars which depending on the manufacturer may be one of 500-1000 examples. If you had the scratch wouldn't this be the ultimate collector car?

I certainly would be all over this vs. a hypercar. I'd love to…

It would be hard to beat Clancy Brown as the Kurgen. He pretty much defined psychopathic immortal.

Hell I'd love to see a reboot from his point of view, with the march up to the quickening as he killed his way across time and set up the final meeting with Connor Mcleod. Though that might be depressing I guess.

Dammit. Now that I think about this, he was totally Dr Who, showing up, helping someone make the world a better place from a fixed point in time and doing all kinds of wibbly wobbly stuff. Dammit.

Shannon Hamilton: You see, Bruce, I like to pick up girls on the rebound from a disappointing relationship. They're much more in need of solace and they're fairly open to suggestion. And, I use that to fuck them some place very uncomfortable.