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That was ahn tarrrget!

(dog covers ears, old lady rattles empty medicine bottle)

Yep. Read The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstom's book about McNamara and the Vietnam war. Smart people can screw things up even worse, because they know they are right.

And we all paid for it to the tune of 800 billion to a trillion dollars.

That bar is not just low, it's buried six feet deep.

All people under sixteen years old are now: sixteen years old!

The Kingsmen's Snoopy vs. the Red Baron would work too.

And once you find it, crack it open and take the wheel. Open container laws move Texas up a few notches.

Whoever does the Shreds videos should be world famous. The Radiohead Shreds and Kiss Shreds videos are some of the funniest things I've ever seen. If you haven't seen these, you are missing something

I'm old enough to remember seeing Picasso line drawing lithographs being sold at the mall. His stuff was everywhere. He transformed modern art and was world famous and one of the richest artists in history. This comparison was a bit ridiculous.

Picasso was very, very wealthy when he passed. He also made David Lee Roth look like a monk.

Hasenpfeffer!

Looks intriguing, although that Factotum cover for the actual comic is less "homage" and more "straight ripoff".

Oh, that's not fair. That's not fair at all!

I think here minimalist=poor. After my divorce, I lived in a studio apartment with a room and a separate bathroom with a sink and a toilet. No kitchen, and no shower. $350 a month in Silicon Valley, seven years ago. Not a big fan of that much minimalism, but it had to be the cheapest living space within 50 miles.

That's the guy! Haven't thought of him in 20 years probably. He has that specifically British way of being interested in esoteric things that is so endearing.

Take an astronomy class and then watch Cosmos. Probably the best head TV series was something called Connections, a PBS show where this British guy talked about how we got from the Magna Carta to telephones, or something.

Oh yes you are right. I also now know why you are supposed to punch a shark in the face, must be because of all those nerve endings. Good knowledge. A friend of mine posts possum-friendly things on Facebook -hey I like them too, but for many people, it's hard to go beyond those beady eyes and that hatchet face.