It's those bastards who just keep sneering about gravity. "It's JUST a theory," they say, as they float skyward in that sanctimonious way of theirs.

Whaddya call a herd of cows in a field masturbating?

Curiously, scientists say, the brain was thinking about sex at the time of its death, suggesting that humans have not changed all that much.

Beautiful aircraft. I was lucky enough to go to a Southern California airshow about 10 years ago where there were maybe six or seven Spitfires in the air, including one model with twin counter-rotating propellers - must have been the Mk. XIV,

Excellent suggestion. Until dog eats router, thinking it is food and/or ultrafun chew toy, which are basically the two categories into which dogs tend to divide the universe.

As Douglas Adams observed: Space is big. Really Big. You may think it's a long way round to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space...

Cat will do that to you. Don't turn your back on them.

Ok, smartypants, but try solving the issue of the connection dropping every time the cat walks by the computer. And god help you if he settles down for a nap.

The downside is that the internet connection stops whenever you turn on the lights in the room.

You mean like Isabel was so big it wound up on Saturn? That's a bitch of a hurricane.

Possibly, but such people are allowed to vote, which is a problem sometimes.

Using a cell phone in 1928 is all very well, but it doesn't seem to help much. I mean, absent the modern network of cell towers, putting a phone to your ear has roughly the same effect as holding a brick or block of cheese against your face.

Holy shit - Until you mentioned "health fairs" I was wondering if you might have been my successor (one of many, all short-lived) at a non-profit where I worked briefly. I could have written this same story almost word for word. Chilling.

Interesting analysis, but I partially disagree that "NO non-black person uses the internal value of the word "nigger" as a justification for a non-black person to keep using the word." There are plenty of those who do argue (stupidly) that because black people use the word, there is some kind of unacceptable double…

A giant space jellyfish, perhaps?

This just makes me sad.

Someone somewhere once suggested a show set in the Starfleet equivalent of Internal Affairs, a kind of Trek police procedural. That struck me as kind of cool and very high-minded, kind of a "CSI: The West Wing" vibe

I always had the impression that Tolkein intended to suggest that Middle Earth was in fact our Earth but in some long lost or magical previous incarnation. It would certainly be consistent with the kind of ancient mythmaking and storytelling that seemed to interest him. I always read the book as an attempt to add…

That, with all of the information and knowledge of mankind at my fingertips at my desk, I still occasionally have to walk back to the library and get a paper telephone book to get someone's number.