"A Most Metal Abortion"

When my mom worked as a social worker, one of her cases involved a kid whose dying wish was for a van (this was not through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but a Canadian knock-off). They repeatedly tried to talk him into going to Disney Land instead, but he wasn't willing to budge on the van.

When my mom worked as a social worker, one of her cases involved a kid whose dying wish was for a van (this was not through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but a Canadian knock-off). They repeatedly tried to talk him into going to Disney Land instead, but he wasn't willing to budge on the van.

Can you elaborate? I'm always a bit suspicious of basing criticism of charities on the notion that giving is some kind of zero-sum game, just because caring doesn't seem like the kind of thing we should treat as a finite resource.

Can you elaborate? I'm always a bit suspicious of basing criticism of charities on the notion that giving is some kind of zero-sum game, just because caring doesn't seem like the kind of thing we should treat as a finite resource.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I read Isabel Allende's Island Beneath the Sea and, while I loved the book overall, I think fiction authors need to declare a moratorium on the use of the verb "impale" as a euphemism for sexual penetration (George R.R. Martin- I'm also looking at you).

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I read Isabel Allende's Island Beneath the Sea and, while I loved the book overall, I think fiction authors need to declare a moratorium on the use of the verb "impale" as a euphemism for sexual penetration (George R.R. Martin- I'm also looking at you).

Now who's being naïve?

Now who's being naïve?

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"Rob Reiner . . . agrees to. . . lay. . . a . . . yellow Labrador."
-Sam Adams, The AV Club

"Rob Reiner . . . agrees to. . . lay. . . a . . . yellow Labrador."
-Sam Adams, The AV Club

If a girl asked me to do that during sex I totally would.

If a girl asked me to do that during sex I totally would.

RagIIng Bull: DispensaBull

RagIIng Bull: DispensaBull

No, although my job involves finance: At least your clairvoyance spell works better than the one in Skyrim.

No, although my job involves finance: At least your clairvoyance spell works better than the one in Skyrim.

I'd have preferred a sequel with a new cast (a la The Incredible Hulk) to an unnecessary reboot.