So... Is this write-up earmarked for The Skeptical Inquirer?
Oh, dear. There are over 800 messages, and then you comment that you haven't read all 500?
You didn't even follow the second link in Comment 15. Do watch that video, please.
Nenya, the teeth just behind your canines are your first pre-molars.
I get my teeth cleaned and checked twice a year. (It's never occured to me not to go -- except when I had no insurance.) I've had fillings replaced (One is Under Observation now.), and a mouth guard made.
That's it. Are you paying attention, Patrick and Ethan?
For those few among us who do not remember Dave Barry's description of why a cyclist should always wear a bicycle helmet...
The Hugo and Site Selection ballots were mailed (first class) from Framingham, Massachusetts at 3:00 today.
Confirmation (of sorts): I heard it on the news on WCRB, Boston's commercial classical station. (I'm guessing it's not a Fox outlet.)
Oh, the shame of it all. I'm so glad I was born in Rhode Island.
As to Bin Laden or Atta expecting the towers to fall: Bin Laden said he didn't expect that. In the video in which he gleefully rejoiced about the attacks, he admitted that he didn't expect the collapse.
In a more recent video, he claimed that he had planned on their collapse, as vengeance for Reagan's treatment of the sacred buildings of Beirut. (Speaking of post-adjusted memories.)
My own personal belief, which is mine, is that he watched "Escape from New York."
Ah, that's what I love about fen: One person throws in a reference to Tollund Man (without bothering to include a pointer), and no one else bats an eyelash.
One of my favorite textbooks is _Cases and Comments on Criminal Justice_ by Inbau and Sowle. I was therefore pleased when my husband got me _Criminal Interrogations and Confessions_ by Inbau and Reid. This, he assured me, is the police bible on interrogations.
Its key point is that you must show sympathy, understanding, and even agreement with your interrogatee, if you want to get any good results. This is quite the opposite of torture, isn't it? And Inbau is so respected. Gee.
People have remarked that Cheney seems fond of the notion of torture. Okay. What I cannot forget is that I was listening to (but not watching) Bush when the topic of Abu Ghraib first broke. What I heard was: "I'd never seen *those* pictures before."
Maybe I'm wrong about the emphasis.
This morning, I lay drowsing in bed, not ready to get up because there was a cat lying across my legs, and thinking about the comments I'd read here. I was thinking especially about perfect trust.
I cracked an eye open to see if Koniko (really Aki no chibi ha) was looking at me. Yes, she was. Upsidedown. She was presenting her throat to me to be scritched. So I scritched it.
I don't know which should be marvelled at more: their perfect trust that we will do right by them, or their perfect faith that we will recognize what doing right means -- from their points of view.
A friend of my family was an eccentric priest, Father John Lawless.
A well-off classmate of mine was Richard Stiff, called Rich.
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