That'd be the punch to the head and attendant brain trauma that killed him, most likely. Sometimes it's just as obvious as it seems. People who get hit in the head can suffer bleeding in the head; bleeding in the head can drip down the esophagus, which would then account for the vomiting.

This is actually kind of a BFD, since Claire carried a large chunk of the boonies of MO as well as the the-real-election-is-the-Democratic-primary urban centers in '12. For those criticizing her for voicing this when she's six years from her next election... well, discretion is the better part of valor. This way she…

It'd be nice to have an unbiased report on this; both the post and the quoted piece (even more so) have a strong editorial slant, though. If, as the pullquote says, she "was basically told her options were to 'wait for nature to take its course' or unhook herself etc." then that's a big problem. If she was told "we…

No, the public does not pay her; the public pays her grandmother-in-law. Prince Billy is paid by the public as a member of the RAF; other than that, it's just family money insofar as his dad owns half of Southwest England, same as it would be had she married any other rich kid. She does what's expected of her as…

Then you'd be an unprofessional commentator. People rag Vin Scully (!) for not getting super excited. These people fail to realize that however AWESOME the thing they just saw was, Vin Scully has seen better. The play you cite was .05% reflexes, .05% skill, and 99.9% luck. I don't think Cliff Lee will put it in…

1) Yes, this is a HIPAA violation, not necessarily loss-of-privileges bad but definitely enough to warrant a sit down with a bunch of old farts in lab coats. The fact that she had a patient flake out on her isn't protected information, but this thread contains everything you'd need to determine where, when, and why…

I like the Rams because I like St. Louis. If I gotta choose, the Rams lose every time. I can assign complete loyalty to the Packers without a second thought and just say thanks for the memories to Kurt, Marshall, Torry, and Isaac.

So you admittedly know nothing about St. Louis, but feel competent to conclude that our self-image as "big league" relies on a football team? Jacksonville, Tempe, and Buffalo have football teams. They might be that desperate. We've already let one blackmailer walk; we'll do it again if we have to.

Schools, anyway; we're set for hospitals.

Seeing as the A-B conglomerate owns half (and unless the Justice Dept has its way, all) of Corona, I'd say they can have it both ways...

Grrrrrr. They have guards, yes. Not every guard in the world is armed, though, and the QUAKER school attended by the Obama kids has the unarmed type. The Sidwell administration is on record as being a bit queasy about allowing the Secret Service to pack heat on and around campus and has excluded their weapons from…

—"Oklahoma, Missouri's better-looking cousin."

I dunno, we're doing a fair number on the planet with current technology, but are no closer to psychic rock-stacking.

Ha ha. I'm not saying they're right (quite the opposite) but they are certainly loud and talented at being difficult to ignore, especially when there's a nice pliable regulatory panel to threaten.

There have been seven major content updates and around 60 patches since release. Not exactly "quarterly" in either respect.

Could Kotaku please stop talking about SWTOR? I like the game. A lot of people like the game. Kotaku clearly decided very early on that it didn't like the game. Fine. De gustibus and all that. But it serves nobody for you lot to be chucking little "hate on THIS" grenades into cyberspace with no actual news or…

This. Clearly no Kotaku writers have actually laid eyes on it since January. It's hit a nice equilibrium point over the last few months, IMO. To the extent it actually is suffering, it's due in large part to the uninformed "dis game sux" mentality of the gaming press in general and Kotaku in particular.

They aren't a religion, they're just nuts. Their "belief," such as it is, is that homosexuality is the unholiest of unholies, and the fact that it exists both invites and justifies God's wrath on pretty much all of humanity (except themselves, of course). Any time something terrible happens in or to America in…

Didn't control the ball while in contact with both the ground and the opponent, as far as I can tell. Can't be down by contact if you're not the ball carrier yet.

Re-read the article—looks like it's been adjusted in a big way. Doubt this one guy called "Bing" had a very big budget; moreover, I'm pretty sure annotations, indices, etc. are fair use.