The best wine to go with spicy food is beer, unchallenged.

These little rice cookers are nice to have. I’ve got a small one like this that is a 3 cup rice cooker, and it makes rice for the wife and I stupidly simple and easy to make. Put 1 cup water to 1 cup rice, push the button down, and when it switches to warm, it’s done. It’s technically a unitasker in my household, but…

These little rice cookers are nice to have. I’ve got a small one like this that is a 3 cup rice cooker, and it makes…

Yeah, I had the satisfaction of reading this aloud to the room immediately after seeing the result. We decided that henceforth Olympic pools should be precision milled from solid blocks of Invar. Problem solved!

Despise the use of the word “pussy” to mean weak. The word should be reclaimed and used to denote strength. For example, “Serena’s tennis game is so pussy! She is amazingly talented.”

Old Man Yells at Chair

My favorite so far. I too felt a kinship with the universe. I spent a not-insignificant amount of time in my back yard staring at the stars thinking about how light bouncing off of our planet is creating this universal record of all the happenings on earth that expands at the speed of light.

It drives me up the wall. I had things like reduced lunch as a kid, and now, guess what? I am a college-educated citizen with a job, who pays taxes, contributes to society, and serves in the military. You know what would have made all that impossible? Not being able to think in school because I was so hungry. So for…

Even if he was an affirmative action admission all it would prove is that affirmative action kicks ass and is worth the investment, because we got Barack Freaking Obama out of it.

Thanks! Luckily I’ve got a few people on the same page...we have a plan!

Aren’t all thoughts good until proven otherwise???

a sociopathic golem whose mouth puckers like an anus

Is this the test now?

So even by your own metric we are doing very well.

“Not dying” is an unreasonably low bar, but Utopia (no war, no hunger) is a perfectly reasonable one?

True, but you can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

People’s ability to live longer, safer and more productive lives is a “low bar?”

The world is a better place now than in the past. Humans are less likely to die from violence, starvation etc then at any other time...

I’m lichen what I’m hearing’.