Cotton balls are a shortcut? Prior service vet here to tell you that the cottonball isn't the only thing that's all wet...

It's also hooey. Multiple studies on vitamin B12 have produced no reproducible benefits along these lines. The most convincing effects occurred in patients who were B12 deficient (surprise). Also, a common alleged use for B12 injections is to cure insomnia, so common sense would tell us that it's hard to have it both…

An excellent example of how to create religious chaos from scientific order. I'm surprised that it never took its place alongside its bastard brother Scientology....

Exactly what I thought. Terry Gilliam and all the other filmmakers have done the little man a serious injustice.

please provide a peer reviewed citation that supports your contention.

No suspicion about it. Folks who think we're at the dawn ofthe Age of Epidemics just haven't been paying attention thus far. It's epidemics all the way down, and it's killing the turtles too.

Oh, that's one to have! "Rocky Rococo, at your cervix" is still my all time favorite line.

Indeed! If you know that, then you should also remember Testicles' deviant to Fudd's Law: "It goes in, it must come out". And so, the motor operated pushover was born!

That is not what I got from the exchange at all. Penniless made the same point many other experts who are not Kessler have made - that article 35 applies to players only. His post implied (pretty obviously I think) that this relies on having the entire constitution which, as you rightly point out, we do not have.…

Because everyone is calling everyone else a dick, you had to make yourself look like one? You're making Penniless' point and calling him names simultaneously. I'll refrain from making the obvious observation.

Although she's much thinner inside the hole....

It also misses the point in another way - conscription is almost exclusively conducted to fill the lower enlisted ranks, i.e. cannon fodder. The conscription system would need to undergo a radical change, and be re-structured to apply equally to all strata of society with no loopholes and no exceptions. I don't see…

At the risk of being to wordy... no.

Ooh! Ooh! Then you get to double dip, er, lick!

Sure, plus you get to lick your finger afterwards!

If Brunner and DeFilippo made the list, then Rudy Rucker deserves to be on it as well, IMO. Rucker is as enjoyably strange as DeFilippo and is a seminal cyberpunk who has never gotten the attention he deserves.. As a plus, I always feel like I'm on hallucinogenics when I'm reading his stories.

Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!

I read that it for advocating for "a kinder approach between church members". The link to the original story.

Amen, I made just this point in a related topic just now. Male vet here, and I've seen both male and female enlisted soldiers burn for much less. This is just the type of slanted military justice that underscores how command authority evades responsibility for the same actions that they claim to be trying to eradicate.

Huh, I guess our secret is finally out, but you haven't uncovered the whole story. If you think the problem stops at the end of my chin, I dare you to get within biting range. They don't call me Sasquatch because I'm tall...