Interesting. I don’t know if I entirely buy it — there are some good observations/counterpoints in the comments — but he makes a point worth pondering. (i.e., that it is easy to mix a liquid bomb at home and bring it on a plan; but it is much more difficult to actually do the mixing on a plane — you need the right…

Hmm. The list leads off with a prohibition on wine, liquor and beer.

>> I noticed my feet really fucking hurt.

>> Screenshots have emerged of what appears to be a mode that replaces much of the operating system’s bright white menus with black and grey. Like my soul.

Hey, one of my troops is up there right now. Neat!

Melanie, this reminds me of something.

Amazon?

So did I! When I was in Afghanistan, all the days were very routine. So I downloaded that MP3, trimmed the beginning to match up with the exact spot it starts in the movie, and put it on my tablet as my alarm :^)

♫ THEN PUT YOUR LITTLE HAND IN MINE -

My parents had the opposite experience with Alaska Airlines. They missed their flight because an *avalanche* closed down the highway into Anchorage. Alaska Airlines was entirely unsympathetic. Cost them a ton of money for new tickets.

You’d think so. Then you realize that even super high-quality blades, like the Feather ones I use, are something like 25 cents apiece, and last a long time. It’s much much CHEAPER than using Gillette’s latest fancy-whatever razor.

You’d think so. Then you realize that even super high-quality blades, like the Feather ones I use, are something…

HOME DEPOT TO ALASKA: DROP DEAD.

HOME DEPOT TO ALASKA: DROP DEAD.

Certainly not the impression an outsider gets from reading the comments.

You may be OpenToTheFuture, but you are evidently not so open to, you know, reading.

When it comes to the phenomenon of "people grimly clinging to what they want to believe — facts be damned," I'm going to point to your post as Exhibit A.

I think it's fascinating the number of comments here judging Walker on his appearance.

This may be the most baffling comment in the whole thread.

Not to mention, The Real Unsharer seems awfully eager to peg his perceptions (i.e., that conservatives are not "hard" on sexual violence) on one data point. I thought progressives were supposed to be all sciency and whatnot.

So, I am of course curious.

Yes vast majority of college dropouts are very procollege he seems to be of the group that thinks "college sucked for me so to hell with college".