Cable companies have to pay the networks to broadcast their channels (except for PBS, which operates under the "must carry" provision). They don't charge you just to be dicks. They charge you because the networks are charging them.

There's Waldo!

When I was in college we would regularly have ladybug swarms in the spring and let me tell you, they are not cute; they are disgusting. They would cluster around entryways so you couldn't help but kill hundreds of them as you walked in and out of buildings and they smell awful. They release IPMP which has an…

And Ride on Curlin' finished in last place. I don't see how that changes a thing that I said.

California Chrome was the only horse in the Top 6 to run the Preakness and, of the Top 3, only Medal Count ran the Derby. Not saying it was that big of a deal, but it's certainly being talked about.

For starters, you're generalizing about an awful big collection of books. A lot of YA fiction is complex reading and even that which isn't often tells stories from which adults can derive depth and meaning.

There are still a lot of questions I wish we had answers to (read, I wish somebody would just post the GD article or data online outside of an academic database already).

The hardware still works, why shouldn't the software? I haven't really had any noticeable problems running iOS7 on my iPhone 4 so I'll probably just stick with that for as long as I can. It just kind of pisses me off that they're intentionally obsoleting their own product when it still functions perfectly fine.

And in this case, they're extra bullshit because bonus points are awarded for playing competitive games (like WC qualifiers) as opposed to friendlies, and Brazil didn't get to play any WC qualifiers.

I think this is just a general problem today of people wanting to "solve" TV. We saw the same thing with Mad Men last year and this year with a whole bunch of people convinced that Megan was a stand-in for Sharon Tate and that she was going to get killed by the Manson family. The whole thing was insane given the…

Selective perception, eh? Allow me to grab my popcorn.

Our photographer actually had it in his contract that we had to provide a meal for him and his assistant. That's generally what you do when you hire somebody to be in your general vicinity every moment for 8-12 hours.

I've never run track, but it seemed odd to me that the passer was carrying the baton in her right hand while the receiver was sticking out her left hand. Is that common and was it the problem?

Where did I at all say that YOU are a creationist? This article is about YE creationists. The comment you were responding to was a direct refutation of YE creationist arguments. Then you made a comment suggesting that scientists conduct their research in the same way that YE creationists conduct their "research." …

The difference between scientists and YE creationists is that scientists are searching for evidence. Full stop. Evolution is a conclusion, based on a history of evidence, in search of more evidence to either support or refute it. YE creationism is a conclusion, based on The Bible, that is only in search of evidence…

Work (this alone should have gotten it, though school likely would have worked too)

Technically, this was the first hour of a THREE-hour finale. Next week's episode is two hours long.

We'll the team doesn't get a medal so the better correction would probably be "The 2012 Olympic Relay Team MEMBERS Just Lost Their Silver Medals."

It's always important to remember that your rights end where somebody else's begin. In this case, your right to freedom of speech does not trump my right to freedom of association. So if I don't want my company to associate with somebody because they're an apologist for racists, that's my right.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that we would use body lengths to compare human speed? Wouldn't it make more sense to use body width since we walk and run upright? In that case, Bolt, at his max speed (27 mph) would travel between 35 and 60 body lengths per second (assuming a body width between 8 and 12 inches). …