If they ever finish the bridge from Oahu to the mainland, I’m sure they’ll add Hawaii to the app. Right now, driving time is somewhat prohibitive, being somewhere around, oh, forever before you hit land.

Depends on where you are. This is the kind of “information” that was taught in my kid’s school at the beginning of this decade. Granted, we’re in Texas so we prefer our indoctrination to be sans science, but it’s still pretty widespread.

Can confirm.

Try not to get caught, but if you do I’m good for a Benjamin towards your bail.

My thoughts, exactly. Are they not teaching much Hemingway in undergrad these days? I hated Hemingway, but that doesn’t mean he’s not firmly ensconced in the canon.

Yeah, I remember that spike, too. I dealt with a lot of customers who seemed to think I had something personally to do with it. I only wish I had that much power, ever.

I don’t know where you were in 2008, but around this part of north Texas, gas was nowhere near $4/gal. In fact, I hoped it would go below $2/gal before the election, but it stubbornly held there until a couple of days after.

I know this is a really old comment, but take a look at the wikipedia entry for Tar Creek (which is what Picher is more commonly known for.) Back in the day when the Superfund was being established, Tar Creek was much worse than the poster child site, Love Canal.

Or in Texas.

I’m amused by the idea that something that is a piece of dead animal can somehow be “healthy”. Seems to me that dead is the very antithesis of healthy.

I thought I was going to live forever too until not too long ago, when my (and my husband’s) mortality smacked me right in the face. It was actually helpful to have the benefit of my therapist’s own existential stuff contribute to our work. I knew he was right there next to me, so to speak, and that helped me feel…

Perhaps the psychoanalysts in this article need further self-exploration on why it’s difficult to let go of their clients when the work is done.

Yeah, that’s just not okay. And while it can be tough to deal with for the therapist too, that existential stuff is so damn common that there’s no excuse for not being prepared to have it come up with a client. My own therapist is a senior citizen, and I know he’s feeling that dread a lot more urgently than I am, but…

I suppose a liberal could try to stab his hand, but it might be hard to find a knife small enough.

I think the intent of the original statement was in terms of taste, not chemistry. I’ve made both cider and cyser, though it’s been years since my last batch, so I’m aware of what you can use to make them. But cyser is sweeter than most commercial ciders, so in terms of taste it would be further away from beer.

Cyser falling between beer and wine?! On what planet?

Austin Eastciders is good stuff, I especially like their pineapple cider. Ace also makes a good pineapple cider, not as dry as Austin’s, I was surprised at how much I liked it.

Nope, quite a bit older than twelve, which is why I don’t believe in fairy tales like, “is essentially as effective as the strongest chemotherapy drugs, yet is totally NON TOXIC even at high doses”. I read the study you cited, and bobnut12 has the right of it. IP6 is useful as a dietary supplement but is by no means…

I see you’re sticking to fiction. Good idea, you seem pretty good at it judging by this post.