In a way, I guess we all would.

Some of us have kind of noticed, though, that government entities are almost uniformly poorly run, way behind the times, almost never innovative, extremely wasteful, and have astonishingly poor customer service. My family members forced to deal with US military health care have suffered greatly.

When I saw the Matrix when it first came out, there was a similar reaction. After Trinity kicked the cops' asses in the beginning, there was few moments' silence, then some guy said in a street accent, really loud, "Daaammnn" and the theater went nuts.

Golly that Notre Dame thing just won't die.

Satellite and interplanetary probe shielding!! My father is a physicist who does this for a living! No doubt he'll be psyched to know that at some point his industry is going to blow up, as it were.

I think that may have been the death knell of Federer as a serious threat to retake No. 1 or win any grand slam except Wimbledon. Match points and a huge lead against the year's top player, and he just let it slip, you know?

That seems like pretty much saying, "Race and gender are significant because they are significant."

I'm not sure I agree with the attempt to rope in an attending physician.

First, vegetarian is NOT vegan. Second, even if it were, you are drawing some awfully broad conclusions from your own personal experience.

I see nothing about this story, nor the firefighter's description of her work on 9/11, that makes either her race or her gender at all significant.

I dare you to cross-post this on Jezebel.

Hey, I think these experiments are some of the best! Seemingly pointless experimentation can take things in totally new directions. That's where the big steps forward often seem to come from.

I'm thinking there is a passenger in the car. Yuck.

Yeah, the more information that comes out about this film adapation, the more it seems like it has cast aside various elements of the book that make Brooks's work so interesting.

Well, certainly fewer students per teacher can be presumed to be beneficial.

About 2200 per public high school, and 900 at my Catholic high school. What is the relevance, since we're talking per student spending?

I seem to recall from my DC-living days, about 12 years worth, that more dollars per student are (or were) spent in DC and other poor urban areas around the country than pretty much anywhere else, including the superb (and wealthy tax-based) Montgomery County public schools right next to DC.

Hi Annalee -

It's just a misspelling. The creature is known as an arcticabra. That should help you with your searching.

I don't think they exist.