Trying to understand Israel by going on Birthright is sort of like trying to understand the United States by riding a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Not if they stick to the book. On a somewhat different topic, this is a book that passes the Bechdel test in spades. Lots of varied and interesting female characters. Not the usual boy’s club fantasy stuff.

Why do people care so much? I suppose that people are really, really wrapped up in the idea that there is some empirical definition of race, something that exists outside of us, that would be true whether we though of it or not. Well, there isn’t - race is an arbitrary distinction that exists in our heads. Now, that…

This one’s cool:

Oh of course, that’s it. Problem solved everyone!

Relevant part starts about 6:40

No. A cheetah is champs at sprints, not middle distance.

Rules, precious rules! They must always be obeyed! Do they make sense? It does not matter, they are the rules! And if you violate them, there must be consequences! Consequences, yes! Because the most important thing in the whole world is the rules!

Your boyfriend’s cat reminds me of a cat of some friends of mine. The cat would eat anything, and they had to be super careful to keep anything remotely edible out of reach. Cat becomes ill, was put on special diet. Illness is eventually diagnosed as likely be intestinal/stomach cancer, with a significant tumor.…

When i first saw the headline, I thought, “What the hell has Han/Harrison done this time”?

37 years? (Does the math...carry the 2....) Damn I’m an old!

Something else most people don’t know about Jurassic Park. It’s a documentary. The dinosaurs are real. Paul/Paul 2016!

Guess the atheist at the religious baccalaureate!

I know that. It was a general comment about flour tortillas. Real tortillas are made from corn, not flour. The flour one’s are awful. (Of course, those Spanish egg-potato things they call “tortillas” are a whole other issue, a very awesome issue.)

Flour tortillas - because white bread isn’t bland enough.

I would think a key reason is the aliens are just that - alien. We’re looking for what we would do - who the hell knows what they would do?

It would seem that Appalachia and places with a lot of Appalachian migrants and their descendants (basically, TN, AK, OK, northern AL and MS) have some of the strongest tendencies towards racism. This demographic, by the way, also corresponds to some of the most conservative voting districts. I so love living in the…

And someday it will be the last part of Florida to exist. Invest now!

Ah yes, rules must be obeyed. Precious, precious rules. Do they make any sense? They don’t have to, they are the rules!

My thought was Spanish diva, like Maria Callas somehow reporting in from the 22nd century.