Okay, small town newspaper editor here.

Okay, small town newspaper editor here.

I'm with you. I'd make the switch in a heartbeat (except I have trouble converting miles per gallon). It's hard being an American and not following the herd on such things.

Have you ever asked a Canadian how many centimeters tall they are? Most often, you'll get a blank stare. Also, the Brutush habitually use a mixture of metric and imperial. It's not just Americans and Burmese holding out.

Have you ever asked a Canadian how many centimeters tall they are? Most often, you'll get a blank stare. Also, the Brutush habitually use a mixture of metric and imperial. It's not just Americans and Burmese holding out.

Have you ever asked a Canadian how many centimeters tall they are? Most often, you'll get a blank stare. Also, the Brutush habitually use a mixture of metric and imperial. It's not just Americans and Burmese holding out.

Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children series, beginning with Coalescent, is way creepy. An alternate evolutionary branch of h. sapiens, living in the catacombs under Rome, begin to come back out into the light. Trust me, it will give you the skeevies.

I agree. Tangled was the breakthrough, but Frozen is even better. Disney was going through an identity crisis between traditional animated musicals (The Princess and the Frog) and Pixar-influenced quirk (Brave). Tangled was the first movie that melded the two.

Your comment made me think of Tolkien's races and of general Norse/Anglo mythology. We so easily accept humanoids of many different forms in our stories. Could these be part of our collective memory?

Forgot to mention: Bush bank bailout + Bush-triggered unemployment costs post-2008 + Bush tax cuts extended by Obama + Bush-level military spending extended and expanded by Obama. Are we to $17 trillion yet?

Bush war + Bush tax cuts + Bush Medicare expansion + Bush recession = $7 trillion.

My first introduction to Emma Thompson was in The Tall Guy, still one if the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Once the theme song to my every Friday night.

A family-owned Rochester, NY company with a fascinating history. http://www.585mag.com/July-2013/Kind…

You don't think Rand Paul won't be feathering his own nest in a very commercial way regardless of how his political career turns out? There is no greater commercial enterprise bigger than American politics.

Electric cars will go mainstream when batteries have a range of 400 miles and weigh about 30 pounds. At this point they could be hot-swappable on long distance trips. Waiting at a charging station is a huge disadvantage over a quick fill up.

Electric cars will go mainstream when batteries have a range of 400 miles and weigh about 30 pounds. At this point they could be hot-swappable on long distance trips. Waiting at a charging station is a huge disadvantage over a quick fill up.

Alaska: the Big Island

Semi-sarcastic. I've never set foot in a Hooters in my life, and I'm not familiar with the legwear aesthetic. It's got to be a pain for a black waitress when you've a ladder and all the spares on hand are in the shade of "Kardashian Kaucasian."

So, do the black waitresses get to darker hose or are they stuck with "plastic tan?"