Excluding overseas destinations and doing the fiscal and temporal math, if the drive is up to 8 or 9 hours: I will always opt for the drive.

“That last part is obviously an espionage goldmine for America’s New Cold War adversaries who are now able to exploit people who are struggling financially and potentially pay for information.”

Style point, which I’m fairly certain I picked up from Strunk and White years ago: use and utilize are not interchangeable. Use means to employ an object for its intended purpose, whereas utilize means to employ an object for something other than its intended purpose.

You know damned well Led Zeppelin is more American than both of those bands put together.

A bunch, in fact. Toki Underground is my favourite so far.

About the salads or the hookers?

hehehe...

Also germane: the wheel itself is largely outdated from a purely wheel standpoint; wheels require largely even surfaces on which to function. Tank treads are more effective at uneven or hostile terrain, but even those are being out-paced in effectiveness by new robotic designs that mimic the locomotion of four-legged…

At the very least, like, put some effort into it, right?

Major take-away: he jammed “the tang end... completely through the victim’s head.”
Is this guy some sort of superhuman? Because the tang end is THE HANDLE.

You know what? Sometimes it’s good to be wrong! Glad to hear it!

In her defense, she might be thinking of sky burial — which is definitely Buddhist... and also not the greatest way, perhaps, to spread one’s young wings.

It’s not just healthcare facilities, either; it’s any institution wherein one can gain situational power over another. It’s care facilities, law enforcement, religious organizations — any where a person’s autonomy is weakened by physical state, or legal status, or mental state is attractive to abusers.

Counterpoint: take them very seriously, because they are hateful, and likely extremely dangerous.

I believe we’re mostly in agreement in that millions of voters in the U. S. are disenfranchised for the benefit of an out-sized impact of rural votes in all aspects of our government.

Whaaaaaaaat?!

Counterpoint: Star Trek IV already exists, and is brilliant.

Where’s your sense of adventure?!

Gods, the eyebrows.

I first started noticing (relatively recently) fuzzy ears in my late 20s.