"Comfort rooms" - are there "comfort women" in there?

Took a little digging, but apparently "moto" refers to "motivational" - found a lot of references to, and pictures of, moto-tattoos

Not thousands of years. Our daily consumption of meat is a fairly recent development and would be impossible without industrial meat processing.

They should also investigate the phenom where a boxer with a perfect record loses his first fight, and is no longer the same boxer. They call this "getting a dent in the armor", or "losing confidence", or "losing invincibility" but it sure seems to be real.

Much like the stock market, it's about expectations for the future.

There's something about a nighttime flight approaching from the east, where the San Bernardino mountains give way to buildings that look like a gigantic glowing circuit board, and then you spot the cluster of high rises that marks downtown L.A., that just says...home. Love that feeling.

I frequently use "You shall not pass" when people try to enter the computer room...

It's not about Batman. It's about soothing our minds and reconciling the need to put EVERYONE under surveillance ALL THE TIME, because if you do, some one percenter will have a conscience and use total information awareness/warrantless wiretapping/extraordinary rendition for good instead of evil...

In "Steel Beach" (1993) Dan Varley had herds of cloned brontosaurus farmed for hamburger meat. He also predicted a kind of google in a planetary computer that knew everything and had a personalized interface for everybody...