When I tell younger, balding friends that at least they won't have to go through the experience of going grey, they take very little solace.

(But keep in mind, basements in October could be chilly).

I think it's precisely this level of charming self-deprecation that would make you the ideal candidate.

China is one of those places that's nice to remark upon and marvel from afar. Actually living there would be pure hell. And despite the huge market for sinophobic literature in the US, things there are going to get a lot worse before they get better. The CCP is not going to go down without a fight, but their going…

Nowadays the snobs in NYC would disdainfully call this "outsider art."

I don't know about you, but in my experience I find that when cops are both angry and embarrassed, their ability to exercise good judgment just skyrockets....

to bad indeed

My first thought, actually, is that the white knit section is a sac sack.

On a simpler level, I am sure that many balls lost their round shape or ourright cracked after the boom. You've broken a ping pong ball in your day, yes? They lose their bounciness fairly easily.

I think you have interpreted the article to mean that since the birds are gone, the spiders can eat more and expand their population, as if it was only the competition for food between birds and spiders that kept the spider population in check. I think this is incorrect - the article's point is that spider populations…

Kind of like all those loud-mouth gay activists in the 70s! I mean, they just couldn't SHUT UP about sexuality and a place at the table while everyone else was just minding their own business. Jerks.

Here's an awesome video - the reference is to Bertrand Russell's teapot analogy regarding religious belief and proof (wiki that shizz!). But really, this vid is spectacular.

Image for this story is fantastic. Looks like the greatest version of Hollywood Squares ever assembled.

What would the shirt look like if your kid turns out to be a little sh*t?

Of course we have, and of course we are. And I am not speaking of any kind of grand unifying theory, but the very specific problem that at the quantum level, all we really know about matter is a laundry list of properties that we assign to particles; we know nothing as to the "composition" of the particles themselves.

I love quantum physics. L-O-V-E.

Oh DL - SEE what happens when you dont sign out on a public computer.

Good thing he took his sneakers off first.

Of course, all the LTE goodness becomes moot if you have AT&T and live in NYC. Then you may continue to enjoy connectivity speeds reminiscent of mid-90s dial-up.

Thank you - that was my suspicion.