People who think anything hard to get must be good to have?

Yeah, maybe. It occurred to me that they were just fucking with me, but if so they did it very well. Possibly kids from the drama club : )

Gift certificates? If you know their names, maybe offer greeting cards with their names on them with gift cards inside, so they’re harder to steal?

I very rarely go there, but the one time I did I had a very confusing experience. I ordered coffee and asked for sugar and cream. I got the sugar but no cream, so I asked again for cream. There was much consternation. “You want WHAT? Um... I’m not sure if we have that here.” I was not asking for some special kind of…

If it costs enough, and if the features are advanced enough, it may reverse—people who have to have sex with no-cost, flawed, limited, boring humans might be seen as old-fashioned and pathetic.

Except if the lady robot has robot vaginal muscles that are designed to contract. The specs on that will need to be very specific.

You might try to find a doctor who specializes in Functional Medicine. They take a much more holistic approach and tend to delve into cutting-edge genetic issues “regular” doctors aren’t really up on.

I have never understood the dismissive attitude people have when they say someone is harming themselves “to get attention.” I say, for God’s sake, PAY ATTENTION THEN. If it’s so bad that a person would cut or harm him/herself, that person needs to be attended to!

The Agrobacterium link is very interesting. This doesn’t sound too crazy and delusional to me, though it is kinda terrifying and I’m really hoping it’s a crazy conspiracy theory: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/agrobacteriumA…

Because usually when you have painful skin lesions you don’t think, “Oh, I have a mental illness”; you think “I have some sort of skin disease.”

This doesn’t look like the NIH thinks Morgellons is necessarily imaginary: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Barak Obama is the first Black president of the U.S. The fact that in most other ways he looks, dresses, and acts like other U.S. presidents (is a man, lives in the White(!) House, wears suits, signs secret trade partnerships he doesn’t want the public to know about) doesn’t mean he didn’t break a boundary and defy a…

She likely had an allergy to food not covered in six or seven layers of pickles. So it wasn't her fault!

My 19-year-old niece recently had a very disillusioning experience when she spent Spring Break with her 28-year-old brother and his new wife. They invited some friends over for dinner, and “they spent all night talking about doctors and insurance.” I think that’s one level up from appliances and interest-free…

Heh heh, this reminds me of something my friend’s daughter did when she was 14. She and her friends had been dropped off at a shopping mall at about 7 p.m. with the expectation that they would call the parents to be picked up in about two hours. (This was before all kids had cell phones, by the way.) Two hours went…

Robert Pattinson then! He’s one fake-bad-boy level up from James Franco. Well, maybe a half.

So... Carrie Underwood will be Janet and Allison Williams will be Frank?

Two tips: 1) Those Swiffer sweeper things really do pick up the hair (mine and the cat's); and 2) I've never found anything better to cut hair off the vacuum roller than a seam ripper—perfect curved little blade, like this one.

Agreed, but those are tax dollars. Sheriff Joe and his gang are not being punished in any way; they are just handing over money that, had they not been so utterly incompetent and indifferent to the assault of a child, could have been spent on, say, help for foster children or something. Not that it would have been…

I see a showerhead, if that helps.