The way the “former”s are flying around the descriptions of the candidates, I half expected to see “former tennis pro James Blake” on the list.

Sounds like Sarah Palin’s opinion on news magazines.

Faux pro-life fuckery is exactly what it is. It has almost nothing to do with religion, and almost everything to do with the current political climate.

I’ve been cross-posting links to this article like mad since this story came out, but here it is again:

parents barely notice your rampant abuse of their HBO, Netflix, Showtime and Starz accounts

It’s more like saying George W Bush could run a fossil fuel company while believing that fossils were put into the ground by God 6000 years ago to test our faith.

There’s enough hot air on Jupiter already.

I don’t think being a brain surgeon requires believing in evolution. You can be great at memorizing formulae and applying techniques, but on some level all of that is just another dogma, and you’re free to pick and choose your other dogmas.

Do you live in the Western US? I don’t know what the trees are (I know nothing about plants) but I’ve lived near groves in Colorado and California that everyone refers to as “the cum trees”.

My lab has a copy of a Russian textbook from the early 80s. Inside the front cover there’s a newspaper clipping about how the textbook was denounced by the Soviet government, because all of the sentences in the practice translations were things like “I am standing in line for bread” and “I am so tired of eating only…

Reality: 8 hours later they are still shoving loose underwear into the box with the kitchen utensils

I think a lot of the time that’s an issue of out-of-date textbooks. In my high school, textbooks were usually at least 6-7 years old, and WWII was usually one of the last few chapters in the history textbooks. The last chapters (the ones the publishers update for new editions) would usually squeeze the entire Cold War…

Only medical students dissect whole animals.

Yeah that is wayyyy too much sidebar.

For comparison, the Barbie Car (5mph) goes about 1.6x as fast as walking (~3.1mph, according to Wikipedia), and I can only imagine the horrible backaches you’d get as an adult sitting in a toy car meant for children.

While we’re talking untoward behavior, don’t forget that Kim worked as a Deputy Rowan County Clerk under her mother for twenty-something years. It’s a family business.

Seriously. My brother moved back in for a few years after college, and my mom gave him a monthly room and board bill.

It’s the famous person equivalent of handing a friend a Netflix envelope with the Blu-ray of Interstellar inside and saying, “Happy birthday!”

re (2): what’s that (possibly apocryphal) saying? Loan someone a million dollars, you own them; loan somebody a trillion dollars, they own you.

Yeah, I want to see how this relates to where you live. I grew up in Chicago, and my ranking there is: