When robots can be regularly seen moving around unaccompanied on the sidewalks and streets. At that time I will accept that the future had unequivocally arrived.

Thank you Tara Jacoby. I shall sleep easy tonight. You’re like Ambien, only itchier.

The only thing I can think to add is 'Yup'.

I have a neolithic cutting tool from Gava in Spain. They sell them at a museum there that’s built over a stone age quarry.

In Barcelona very few stations have this, though there's talk of expanding it. It's rare in Spain in general.

This is why court jesters were a great idea. A 'buffoon' permitted to speak truth to the king in a court full of yes men.

You mean like crack and child pornography?

Yikes! Your escape sounds exceedingly narrow. Btw, brace yourself for some major trolling from some of her simpleminded footmen.

I read it and was mildly impressed until my 17th birthday. That was when I began to realize that the world is murky and complex and her indigestible little bromides, far from being helpful, were actively toxic.

Completely unsurprising. Over at Thee Rant, a forum frequented by current and ex-law enforcement officers (NYPD in particular) these are typical responses to a female officer at the 75th precinct who was rewarded $100,000 after being repeatedly harassed by a senior officer:

Makes me wish I kept track of all the haircuts, nail clippings and shaves, and gave them the send offs they deserved. RIP little pieces of me.

You're either a cop or JRR Tolkien.

You're both so right.

Oh my!

I imagine at least some people in the UK would take offense if a German TV show planned to race around England in a car with 'V2 lol' plates.

Their methods, not their core belief or raison d'être, invite comparisons to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. At any rate they are hardly original.

I'm in Barcelona, where we occasionally experience red rains. They're storms impregnated with high flying dust from the Sahara. On those days our patio is a huge mess until a clean rain eventually comes along. Usually we experience a few red rains in succession, each a bit cleaner than the last.

13/15, also an atheist. I made the same mistake about the Jewish Sabbath and flubbed the last question, but I spent much of my life living outside the US and never heard of this great 'awakening' (sounds horrible, with any luck they'll doze back off again).

I think it was the Economist that called Australia Britain's Texas.

The very deep did rot: O Christ,