Agreed. Not every straight guy's dream is a wife, 2.4 kids and a minivan. If one has the wealth and attractiveness to succeed as a 50-year-old boy, why wouldn't you?

Happy tofurkey day.

No, no. He's right. I mean, you can watch the same five minutes of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" over and over for the same effect as watching the full thing, right?

People on the outside don't know. A presentable, decent-smelling male nerd with only minimal symptoms of Asperger's gets laid like Sinatra. For females you can remove the adjectives above and it still works.

Sock in the boxers.

Animals live, they die, we use them. Better people treat them nicely and try to keep them happy during the process. Entertainment may seem like a frivolous and unnecessary use to put them to, but is "The Hobbit" seriously more frivolous than, say, 27 boxes of cowboy boots or Kid Rock's Sunday best?

Same here. Kohls cash is a little higher and there are a few doorbusters, but the meat and bread of our business — the clothes— are very close to what you would otherwise have paid.

Finally! Now he and my Elaine action figure can re-enact "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

She really is quite pretty, and her low voice and decent ability to look like she is thinking make her look credibly intelligent (unlike many pretty ladies presented on our televisions). I basically just watch the show for her and Duke at this point.

Arguably, they toned up Iron Man as much as they toned down Thor. The suit took a heck of a beating that no actual material could take. Thor may have been pulling his punches for awhile, but the energy released when he hit Cap's shield leveled part of a forest. In hindsight, he tried to hit cap inexcusably hard and…

We do not yet know that any kind of life that is radically different is really possible. We have a sample of only one biosphere, and it seems very possible that at the simplest level, we are relatively (if not completely) safe in looking mostly for life that makes and uses ATP, has a phospholipid membrane, etc...…

Really, though? Shop around. I bought my CB750 for, uh, $750. $300 worth of work and I now have a sweet ride. Don't pay that much for an old UJM unless that sucker is pristine.

As a lover of Honda Cb750s, I have to agree. Yes, they made a lot of them, but the supply is not infinite and once they are gone, they are gone. Bobbers and cafe racers have their place, but people are really doing it because it is not that hard and they feel like doing crap to their motorcycles. Hey Buddy, you wanna…

You know what makes this game exciting? Matt Firor. He designed the best PVP-based MMO ever produced, and he is making this. They have divided the RVR world into three factions which is absolutely critical to successful RVR.

Mine is 5 years old as well, and I have no pressure to upgrade. It ran Skyrim maxxed out with plenty of AA and AF. I wouldn't need any more than that unless I bought some huge honking monitor that I had to back away from to see it properly.

There is this idea implicit in this that our genetic predisposition for all abilities that we currently possess must improve or at least stay the same or something is terribly wrong. Evolution drops abilities as they become lower priorities for survival. That is not a bad thing. Imagine if our bodies had to maintain…

So, uh, when I agreed with you and laid out a situation that demonstrated your point, I didn't understand?

He, heh. You said "Annulus."

Yep, you have it. Bill Gates has three kids. My neighbor has five. Gates' kids monopolize a lot more resources and are more powerful, but evolutionarily speaking my neighbor wins. Success does not equal procreation.

A: My former roommate who was a fencing instructor and working on his masters in Medieval Literature would have disagreed. That's where I learned that the old swords used to be called "bone-breakers." B: It can't have been that elegant a dance or maces, flails and axes would not have been viable alternatives to the…