Ornithologist here! The folks saying this is a female House Finch are spot-on. Here’s a zoomed-in photo of the bird:

I’m on a conference call, and I’m desperately hoping that they aren’t asking me to do anything, because I haven’t paid attention to a single word thanks to this article.

A lot of us are lawyers (as I’m assuming you are), so we also took Con Law. And no, advise and consent wasn’t held up as any sort of sacred cow like you’re making it out to be.

Sounds like the GOP plainly stands behind “don’t advise and don’t consent”, as they’ve said they won’t even consider ANYONE Obama nominates, which is pretty much a new low.

The most hilarious scenario is Republicans stop the nomination of a new Justice, Hilary wins and nominates Obama.
I’m pretty sure I’d die laughing.

I cannot wait to read your treatise on jurisprudence: What I heard in talking points on Fox News and vaguely remember from third grade.

My favorite part of political discourse is when those clearly lacking any understanding of the most basic concepts of civics inform everyone on the intricacies of Constitutional scholarship in between slurps of their Big Gulp.

Except they refuse to advise or consent thus leaving us with 8 justices for what could be well over a year with some very important cases coming up. The Senate not doing their job at all is not the same as the Senate valiantly keeping that crazy dictator Barrack Hussein Obama in check for us voters. We actually…

It does. I didn’t know the difference between polarized and unpolarized. I looked it up a bit more after your comment. Thanks.

Yeah, really. Basically it’s Tom’s of Maine or The Natural Dentist. And the Natural Dentist recently stopped making orange flavor. Sigh.

Lance Armstrong. His foundation and website seem really cool, though, which is an unusual combination.

Get a set of good polarized sunglasses. I can look right into the sun with them on.

Would something like polarized sunglasses help?

I also switched to a toothpaste without SLS (it was a simple as switching from Colgate to Crest) because I was getting monthly, gawdawfully painful canker sores. It took me probably 5 years of suffering and research. I was dabbing those fuckers with peroxide (oh the burning) and milk of magnesia, and suffering in…

It’s very interesting! I got the info. off of the LiveStrong website, which I find a surprisingly helpful and straightforward site for health information. I’m often shocked at how something so useful could have come from the work of someone with such terrible character.

I just bought some straight SLS through the mail to wash lace with. It works like a charm. I can understand why you wouldn’t want to use it in shampoo or toothpaste (my son basically stopped getting canker sores in his mouth when we removed the SLS from his toothpaste,) but I gotta agree with Stephan — it’s just a…

Ha. You just got hosed.

Also, “mr france”? Really?

A smear on Mr. France? WTF are you even talking about? Show me one thing in this article that is not factual that was said about him? It’s not a smear if it is the truth. I’ve been watching Nascar since before you were born kid, and everything he said about France is true and then some. And people wonder why I quit…