That's just a documented fact! They'll steal anything.

Shouldn't it be an oatmeal cookie?

Bad nutrition and living conditions probably stunted their growth.

Was it an HMO or a BC/BS kinda thing? Either way, that's how they make their money — take in the premiums and then delay care till the patient dies.

Aw, don't discourage him, Ara. He's just gotten his new tinfoil hat all polished and shiny.

That presumes that the right wing actually wants to have an argument. Instead, they put their fingers in their ears and go "la la la, can't HEAR you, for-profit is ALWAYS best!"

There's plenty of naked (or almost naked) grown men in Spartacus.

1939 movie, I thought.

That's unbearable.

No, it says in the article that the family only speaks English. They just say that to cover up the fact that they can't remember the word.

I lurrrrrrrrve "Somewhere in Time", but there's no laughs in it. I'd swap that out for WALL-E.

As a person with SAD, the Summer Solstice is my favorite day. I wish every day could be like that. Party on!

But if they just sit there and die, then they never purchase any more fine Blue Sun products! It's a terrible business model.

"Santiago" by Mike Resnick was Firefly before there was Firefly, so that's what you need to read — it's even better methadone than any Banks novels.

But what about the Thetans? Aren't they the ones that cause all the bad and self-destructive thoughts?

My first thought was "So they're calling Thetans something else now?"

Sure, only 0.1% got the violent side-effects. But the 99.9% of others died due to extreme apathy. That's an unacceptable rate of side-effects. I mean, at the very least, it deserves a black box warning.

Valentine's Day was also created to take the place of a Roman pagan holiday.

Especially in a country that's mostly tropical jungle.

Fuck yes. Darwin Award winners are making law-abiding working taxpayers have to be in excruciating pain, go through all sorts of rigamarole, and get treated like said winners just to be functional.