I came here to mention the Dunning-Kruger effect, so thank you. Damn shame it’s going to kill us all, but at least we have a name for it?

Also booze. He failed peddling booze.

Your answer is excellent. I would add that depending on the source of the gold, he may have to account for the additives — if it’s scrap from jewelry, it will have certain levels of other metals, etc.; if it’s, say, dental scrap or industrial scrap, it will have different trace additives. If his story doesn’t match…

No love for medicine? I’ve had my life saved by simple antibiotics. (No, seriously. I stabbed my finger with a clay needle in a pottery class. Tiny, deep puncture. Tried hard to wash it out well, but within 12 hours, there were bright red lines running up my arm like a billboard from on-high saying, “If this were…

If Booker’s a mensch, why not? :)

So, um, you bring the enormous mirrors, I’ll bring the unicorn horn, and we’ll take care of this problem?

I got that reference!

Except that Elliot would find the very idea of a $220 hoodie bourgeoisie and repulsive. The hoodie recommended doesn’t have any intrinsic qualities that make it approximately 2-3 times better than a more pedestrian one. It’s just offered at an exorbitant price because some suckers will pay it. (Presumably this is…

I’m not a business owner, but I already donated $200 to PP, ACLU, NAACP LDF and the Sierra Club on Nov. 10th. It...didn’t make me feel better; I felt guilty for not already supporting these great causes, while simultaneously feeling guilty for “stiffing” my usual charities (Doctors without Borders, Project Heifer, and…

Well, to be fair, a lot of the above samples weren’t using actual words, grammar, punctuation or anything resembling English.

No no no! Garbage fires put out toxic fumes! Don’t soil your marshmallows like that!

To be fair, I wouldn’t want someone running an IHOP if they were completely clueless about what went into running a restaurant, either.

Your dad sounds awesome. Your mom, too. :)

The gloating. The f*ing gloating. And then, gleefully pointing out how the stock market apparently recovered, as if that somehow justifies and blesses their racist, hate-filled opinions.

I sent in donations for the ACLU, the NAACP LDF, Planned Parenthood and The Sierra Club.

Satan is embarrassed and likely offended you even made the suggestion. Satan has standards and panache. The turds in this punchbowl are all too human. There’s nothing supernatural about these idiots’ transparent ambitions and gleeful hate-mongering.

In a way you were lucky. I had to sit and work very hard at not hearing the two corpulent old white guys in the next cube, gloating. And then gloating again because apparently the stock market rallied this afternoon...as if that proves them right about all their hatred, small-mindedness, and bloated privilege.

What should Obama do? He has been a class act in the face of unspeakable vitriol lobbed at him because he’s an articulate, intelligent, educated black man and that terrifies a portion of the people he’s been doing his best to govern despite constant opposition and ceaseless racism. Should he throw a tantrum a la…

I know I’ve had “Springtime for Hitler” stuck in my head all day. That’s comedy, right?

Unless she’s secretly far more tech-savvy than most non-IT people, she only had someone else’s word that server A was non-secure and someone else’s word that server B was better. And neither of those people had both technical qualifications and knowledge of whatever regulatory requirements placed on the State…