Is there a class on this sort of writing? It should be part of every stats textbook.

"You can come down when I'm goddamn ready to let you come down."

But who will clean messes on the moon?

That would be a great case of getting one's just desserts. I wonder what's the highest amount ever actually earned in such a scam.

I definitely does not sound like Tourette; it's hard to believe a neurologist came up with that diagnosis. As you note, Tourette is genetic (so it might show up in her family history), and it doesn't start in your mid-teens, and it's not going to show up in a bunch of kids at once.

I love that irony. By which I mean, I hate it; it's sad for that kid to have such a shallow mom. But since this sort of thing is endemic in our society, we can either find it sad (all the time) or we can laugh it off. I'm still torn, tho, but mostly I'm the laugh-it-off kind of person (just to preserve my sanity).

Agreed. It may look like Tourette, but the fact that it's hitting a group of kids all of a sudden? Not Tourette. Is there a history of Tourette in her family (and the families of the other kids)?

She seems very brave. Poor kid. I have a kid around that age, and she's going thru some odd things herself. I hope this can be cured or at least ameliorated. I'm not buying the diagnosis at all.

I had the privilege of meeting Admiral Grace Murray Hopper back in 1986. She's the one credited for popularizing (and possibly coining) the term 'debugging' after that incident where a moth got into the works of an early computer.

By day, Pat was a mild-mannered job-hopper. But at night, Pat became He/She!

Boy, it's enough to make you never want to face mass transit again.

When it comes to trying to guess about men (and this is probably true to at least some extent for women), I think that gaydar is much more determined by watching a man's body language and listening to his voice.

This one smells like 'tiny sample size' to me. I'm not sure that the idea is wrong, but 40 people looking at just 30 examples of each sex? That's not much to work with.

Seaweed? Nah!

You made me laugh.

Nailed it!

Both Gawker and Jezebel wrote about this girl's accomplishment. The articles were similar in nature, and so were the accompanying comments.

Well, I meant CBS's original programming, à la sitcoms and dramas. I don't watch a whole lot of network TV and never have, but when I did, I used to laugh about how pathetic CBS's lineup was (and still is).

I'm not sure how I feel about Anonymous taking down different sites, but I do know that CBS primetime hasn't been relevant since Ed Sullivan.

Ooh! I wish I'd thought of that.