Wild guess, but the Volvo part and wealthiest people in the country was a hint: Overlake or Lakeside in Bellevue, WA?

Seems like his point was to impress us all with the fact his parents have more money than sense. I'll take the snooze button, thanks.

Nah, I give it 3-5 years and maybe another baby book.

I almost said Tortilla Soup but I thought no one would know wtf I was on about. I grew up in a big Mexican family with 3 women for every man for the last 2 generations. It. was. awesome. And that movie always takes me "home" in a way few other movies do. I need to go watch it right now.

At work! I forgot because Australia. How's tomorrow? Wait don't tell me. No tell me. No don't tell me.

Aw, man. Such an ugly disease. I loved her gravelly voice. She was a sharp actor. I hope her family finds some peace. In my experience with alcoholism related deaths, the peace only comes after a long period of resentment.

It's incredible. Life changing. Despite my choice of career, I'm not really a sunshine and beach person at all. I've been to every country in the EU, but I had little interest in Tropical vacations outside my professional capacity. Then I went to the Societys(ies?) and I totally fell in love. Spent all my time in…

...when what they don't realize is that's the best. fucking. part. of the planet.

Probably sensitive to the Hawaiian-bias at the moment because I spent some time in the Society Islands this summer and had friends who just got back to the PNW after living on Aitutaki for 2 years. There's SO much more to Polynesia than fucking Waikiki, and I used to be a Hawaii-specialist travel agent, so it's not…

I love, love, love Sia. Chandelier is on my morning power-shower playlist. This is getting added. And there's a few more ballady Sia songs on my afternoon decompression playlist.

I'm saying this at the risk of being destroyed by everyone here, but can I be honest? I don't get what people like about Italy. I've spent a lot of time traveling there, not just in the tourist places, and it seems so fucked up and out of control and expensive and polluted and hostile and stressed... it's like the…

you can get it for a PC, too. IMHO, Florence is the most beautiful city in Italy. Venice would be a contender, but for the people.

The fact that we're all automatically assuming she's Hawaiian is also bugging me. Sure, Moana and Maui are Hawaiian spellings of inoffensively polynesian-sounding words. But why wouldn't she be from Raiatea or Bora-Bora? Even American Samoa. The Hawaii thing is so played— and the pidgin stereotypes are becoming…

Your fake opinions are invalidated by the fact that this woman was shot in the face because she sought an education, survived it, and now chooses instead to promote the education they tried to deny her at the expense of her life, and to express herself very publicly and at significant risk to her continued survival. …

Well since you put it that way, send her back to the Swat right away! Maybe if she gets an edjumacation in Pakistan, she'll learn to dodge the bullets aimed at her face next time.

Okay. then fuck the troll! splatter his troll guts all over the place! I'm firmly in your corner, and it's not just because your account photo gives me a semi.

Don't feed the trolls.

Oh, yeah, I read it that way. It just spurred on my own thought. My stream of consciousness suffers no dams.

I assume the reason she spends so much time promoting access to education is: people like you.

Dubious though it was, I suppose that is true. I love Obama, but a Nobel Laureate he was not. Not then, at least. And definitely not now. I don't think any American president can call the contributions of his presidency peaceful. Even Jimmy Carter's prize was separated from his presidency by 22 years.