I can't keep baleen you out like this.

You're spouting nonsense ye blowhard!

The only friend that won't be dead by sunup.

There are still some areas where they could get away with it. Need the right mix of a not too protective parent and secluded acreage.

Or Calvin and family are driving and he sees a sign

Its per day. In the actual article they specify it:

Well goody! I bought Three Hainish Novels a while back but couldn't get into it at the time. I'll try skipping ahead to Left Hand of Darkness.

You mentioned LeGuinn so I will jump on the opportunity to recommend The Dispossessed. Great sci-fi novel.

Feeling the rural pain with ya, I'm about eight miles from anything. No car. Town nearby is a strip along the freeway with bunch of outlet malls and copy paste franchises. A few pockets of character in an otherwise grey sprawl. Even Glenn Beck gtfo as soon as he could. You find someone you can stand and you cling to…

He waits till you are alone, till you make a misstep, then when you're off balance he pushes you. Once he's on top he's very hard to shake. Last week was bad for me too. I offered him a blood sacrifice and he seems appeased for the moment. But now my family knows just how bad it is and I have more guilt.

When the aliens come, who do you think gets the first tour of the ship?

Tears and laughter—meager shields against the lunacy of life.

A slow public suicide for me, one Spirit at a time. Dad smoked through all my childhood, I never tried one till I was 22. Thought it was gross. It is gross. I figure that guy from Shantaram had it right: "Like everyone who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live".

What if the U.S. government sued a whistle blower for publicizing the negative health effects of drone strikes?

Oh sweet preparedness!

I remember playing through New Vegas as a paragon and coming upon the Brotherhood bunker in a sandstorm. I walk in they demand I give up my weapons.

I'm actually kinda disappointed Korgan never tried to kill me.

I had them pop up on Pandora (I think because of the Why? seed) and was pleasantly surprised. I like Oceanwalk.

Live by the sword, live a good, looong time!

You are right.