That's the winner right there.

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Just finally started reading it, halfway through it, and Gladwell makes an excellent case. I was in a GATE class from grades 4-6, and I can assure you that none of the kids in that class went on to be world conquerors, including me. Haven't heard that any of the people from my high school who had 4.5 GPAs thanks to…

Tone deaf moment of the Olympics: Right after Bob Costas characterized Gabby Douglas' win in the all-around as a moment that would inspire young African American girls to try gymnastics, NBC went to commercial and showed a promo for an upcoming show called Animal Practice. The promo featured...a monkey doing…

Ha!

"So he fell down deliberately to fool the officials and gain an undeserved advantage...What's the problem again?"

YES!

Way late, but +1

OK, I'll be that guy - I believe Erin was referring to the fact that there are two different kinds of safeties in the secondary - strong and free. The strong safety usually helps linebackers defend against running plays and covers the opposing tight end (who lines up on the "strong side") on pass plays, while the free…

#noracism

She was thinking about running for mayor in a different city (Glendale, with a huge Armenian population). However, while Glendale has a mayor, it's not an elected office - the five city council members vote annually as to who among them will be the mayor for that year. So she'd have to get elected to city council and…

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There will be a day when "Lynn Hoppes recycling Wikipedia" jokes cease to be funny. Today is not that day. +1

That jackass left the barn long ago.

My favorite article about that attitude: http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/01/09/a-rich-persons-definition-of-rich/

Gasp! Are you suggesting that someone's words could be twisted in order to paint them a certain way?

All those calculations and no mention that 70-18=52 under par, not -54?

So, 54 points? That's sort of insane-sounding, but the U.S. women did beat Angola by 52 yesterday.

Most of the team members are different. I think they only had one repeater from 2008.