According to iStockphoto, it's "Japanese breaded and deep fried pork cutlet topped with an egg on a bed of steamed rice"

Well now you're getting into philosophical territory (and Stephen Hawking said it was dead!) "What is corn? What isn't corn? When does corn become not-just-corn, or not-even-corn?"

This guy was destined to be exactly one thing when he grew up.

Except it doesn't tell you that. I just used this example in a different comment, but I'll repeat it here:

Here's the harm: it conveys information, but that information is so broad as to be effectively meaningless . . . yet it's in a space that implies the information should be meaningful. It's encouraging emotional reaction untethered from factual information, and that's not something we should aim for, regardless of…

"We shall not rest until our dust is in your cities!"

Once our wall reaches above the Earth's atmosphere itself, we can all breathe easy . . . knowing for certain that's 100% pure America-air in our lungs.

There's nothing wrong with knowing what is in your food.

There's no possible way that a person is allergic to "GMO".

I saw high school English class.

M is for math.

Paid by the word, Charlie Jane Anders will now retire to her money-fort.

The best distance is "before".

I can't even really get a bead on whether they're lined up or not. I see one and then another but I have little to no sense of where they are in relation to each other.

Nice of them to label the most delicious items in eye-catching red!

In this case, "the brain" may be shorthand for "the structures and processes within the brain for calculating position and motion," as separate from your consciousness, which relies on said structures for input without necessarily being sustained by those structures.

No, I most certainly am not!

Every day, millions of Americans are saved from a grisly end by their trusty Facebook account.

For the record, I do think that the dropoff in crack use probably has more to do with the drop in our crime rates than anything else. US crime peaked in the 80s when crack-use peaked, and crack fueled massive increases in crime and basically created scads of new violent criminals from scratch. Murders have only…

Wait, really? Crimes committed in prison aren't included in our crime rates?