If you don't call them bubblers, you just don't get it.

We've had a few marathons. I would say "safe" simply because I don't recall hearing anything bad happening during them.

Pretty much accurate. I look around at times and wonder at how a progressive state that not only birthed the Republican party but allowed three socialist mayors to run Milwaukee, put someone like Scott Walker in Madison. And then jackasses like Glen Grothmann, who constantly keeps winning in our area, despite his…

Me, I'd be expecting a former police cruiser breaking all sorts of speed limits and most of Illinois' law enforcement following them. Then again, I hardly ever go to Chicago.

My dad *is* awesome, no lie. I am definitely a daddy's girl in that respect.

I think it was his personality; the man went through Vietnam, three younger sisters (and a freaking half dozen brothers), and when I was born, my mom basically decided work and a bigger paycheck was more important than being home. So if something happened to me, he was the one who had to step in and deal with it.

I had that happen too; 13 in 1994, didn't have any sort of actual comprehensive health class until 8th grade either. Before that we got split up in 7th for boys and girls, and there was talk of tampons but not a hell of a lot else.

Honestly, this makes my knowledge of what they did to one of their employees all the weirder; especially since he backed his boss up that he "couldn't afford" to pay the employee full-time wages anymore. When he owned three franchises. And was apparently trafficking drugs.

Yeah, but doesn't that basically make the point? Garrett Morris was underutilized and unhappy, and Eddie Murphy is really the only one who became famous while on SNL. Chris Rock didn't until after he left, and outside of them, before the Aughts, who else was on SNL who was also a minority who wasn't either A:…

Honestly?  I'd say it's the rest of the series that makes Hyperion good.  Because Hyperion is a bunch of interconnected stories, but you don't realize that they're interconnected so much until The Fall of Hyperion.  Endymion then just picks it up centuries later and keeps running with it (though to his discredit,…