My brain. It is broken.

Keep an eye out on Black Friday specials. I got a Pro 500 for $199 and free shipping from Sears this past year. You may not get to pick the color, but the price was good for the model. My mom got me a cover in the color I wanted for Christmas, and it holds my accessories and junk to boot.

There's a really good reason for that: It was meant to be the series finale. It was unexpectedly renewed for another season, so they had to pull something out of their butts for the sixth.

Seems like all the legislators in that room should take a gander outside the room and building. They might want to think a bit more about making illegal votes.

You must see Kinky Boots! Now! See it now!

I had no idea she lived in the town where I did until the week after she passed away, when I also found out that the mother of someone I knew here was a friend of hers. I would so have loved to meet her. I enjoy her work so much and had so much respect for her.

Nope, it's almost odorless (I just rubbed some on my arm to check).

For my fellow chafers: Chafing Gel

I have to kind of agree more with Juhyiklop on this. One, the US is definitely not overpopulated in terms of density or food availability. We produce FAR more food than we need as a country. Also, the only reason corn is so cheap is because we subsidize it hugely as animal feed. It's unfortunate, because it makes…

This is the reason I haven't been brave enough to try them yet. I'm afraid I'm way too lazy.

Nah, I wouldn't call it silliness. :) I imagine it would be a pretty common sentiment here in the US. Like she said, we've kind of pushed death away from our lives into these little niche places, and that's made embracing and accepting death as an aspect of life and not some scary, "other" thing seem more morbid than…

I don't find her idea is overly morbid. It's more of a return to how we dealt with death in our culture for a long time, where it was a part of the life of the family. I can imagine that, for some people, the personal involvement allows a better sense of closure and safety in not turning the body of a loved one over…

From what I understand, there are a few scenes without dialog that are the guy who was originally cast (he left after six weeks), but the rest is Weaving in there. I agree, he really was awesome. It made me really like him as an actor.

Very good point. Hopefully soon I'll be able to read the full study to see what all was actually considered and measured, as well their full statistical methodology.

That's kind of the sticky point for me; neither the study's abstract nor the article discussing it shows that there was a statistically significant difference between the married/unmarried cohabitating groups for similar amounts of time. There may have been, but I don't have access to the full text at the moment.

Yeah, there was a category that was 3-5 years for each (married, unmarried cohabitating, noncohabitating), but given that the abstract doesn't mention them as being significantly different from the other groups suggests that they weren't. Interpreting what was given as being primarily due to marital status is a bit…

An important sentence of the linked article was left out in this one. "As duration of cohabitation increased, all of the risk estimates declined." The conclusion was that they need to do exactly what you said and research more about the distinction of those married and unmarried cohabitating women and the effects of…