Yes. And they all have tried the Flying V at one point or another. Or at least realized that it can’t be done without getting an offsides call.

Thanks. It took some time, but I can now handle relatively sane discourse. I’ve had to unfollow a few people on Facebook. Including my uncle, who keeps posting all the usual right wing NRA type memes about guns and I want to comment on each and every one with OMG YOU ASSHOLE DON’T YOU REMEMBER HOW MR. DRSUNSETS…

Thanks. I’m sorry if I traumatized you. This is what I think a lot of the 2nd amendment fetishists don’t get (or, more likely, don’t want to think about): the consequences of a human being killed by a high powered firearm are horrible.

Thank you.

Yes, they really do work. We have them in the hockey rinks in Houston, and one guy survived a massive heart attack on ice because his teammates grabbed the AED. One of our physician-players has started a Facebook campaign to make sure we all know where each AED is located in each facility.

Yes, I suspect that’s correct. I just grabbed my dog (poor doggo, he didn’t know what to do) and headed across the street where a neighbor stood with me until the fire trucks showed up.

Thank you. I am grateful that the way everything was positioned I saw just enough to know I had to turn around and call 911. I think that saved me a few nightmares. But I really wish I hadn’t read the autopsy report.

I think it’s just assumed that’s what you’re supposed to do. When I called 911 after arriving home in the aftermath of my husband’s shotgun accident the dispatcher asked if I was performing CPR. When I told him no, he asked me why not. I believe I yelled something like “THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO DO CPR ON!”. I wasn’t…

My PopPop loved to tinker. There was nothing he wouldn’t try and fix by himself.

Not at all surprising. Reminds me of the time I encountered a couple of those snobs in the wild at a festival in PA. I was browsing some craft tents, and I heard unholy shrieking coming my way. It was a little girl in a stroller who was having a truly epic meltdown. Poor mom was shoving her way through the crowds just…

Good God, I just checked, and the University of Michigan still hasn’t re-named their science building honoring a noted eugenicist. https://www.michigandaily.com/section/administration/group-submits-official-request-rename-cc-little-building

I teach at a med school. Our AMSA (American Medical Student Association) planned a seminar series on gun violence this year. They first started to scout out speakers by reaching out to our School of Public Health. They were astonished to find that NO ONE in the Texas Medical Center is doing research on gun violence.…

I know! At least play along with the “statement necklace” comment! That was just super-awkward.

Duskova and Bidar’s costumes apparently were meant to pair with their Cirque du Soleil music. They didn’t quite pull it off.

Oh my God. I am getting flashbacks to 7th grade sex education. Which was presented by the boys’ gym teacher. Who was also my godfather. Who attended the same Catholic church as my family. He lived two doors up the street from me and I would hang out with his son all the time. And there he is, stammering at the front…

And this is why I am really liking the team competition. It gives the skaters who are probably not medal contenders in the individual a chance to shine. So pleased to see both Adam Rippon and Mirai Nagasu have great skates. They earned this. I was in tears watching them.

She has attitude to spare, doesn’t she? For some reason she reminds me of the gymnast Svetlana Khorkina. ALL BOW BEFORE THE QUEEN.

Johnny is such a master of snark.

I’m still trying to figure out why she didn’t just hide the thing. It’s a hamster. It’s tiny. Its natural habitat is a burrow underground. Stick in in your purse and check on it a few times during the flight.

Oddly enough, I just heard a snippet on XM radio where Billy Joel explains this line. Paul was a “real estate broker who was writing the Great American Novel”.