KeithS @ 20:
Being that I know people in the porno-industrial complex and assuming what Michael Schwartz says is true (and really, what evidence do we really have that he's wrong?), I feel safe in saying that yes -- there is a secret cabal of heterosexual conspirators with vasty powers of libidinous persuasion.
It's quite clear that straight people cannot be trusted.
My super power is to remain heterosexual after 16 years of using the internet! And strangely enough, many of the people I know who work in porn are pretty heterosexual as well (with exceptions, of course).
I can only conclude that there is an elite cadre of super-straight people working behind the scenes to corrupt the world into homosexuality. No doubt so they can be the only ones breeding and thus begin their thousand year misrule. The image is so vivid -- they stand in the falling condoms waving their flopping silicone scepters, capering in their merkins, lining the marbled halls of commerce with Real Dolls. Everywhere people are entranced by the blue glow of televisions showing images of naked parts and elaborate rope knots, lubricated traffic cones, animated characters inflating beyond all human proportions, macro-photographs of the ends of poles holding up street signs and the exhaust pipes of cars...
I am decidedly less than enthused to discover via this Google Map Tracker* that one of California's most recent confirmed cases is across the street from a coffee shop my wife and I regularly go to, and not at all far from the place we ate dinner and bought groceries earlier this evening. We build flu preparedness kits so we don't need to use them dammit!
*(Map legend:
* Pink markers are suspect
* Purple markers are confirmed
* Deaths lack a dot in marker
* Yellow markers are negative
Link originally from Gizmodo, but I found it elsewhere)
Fungi @21 - There were, in theory, CIA psychologists responsible for the recommendation. They'd be the ones who cited the study from that TPM link, and I cannot feasibly understand how they could support a position claiming no or even minimal harm.
Larry @6: Sleep deprivation can be fatal. Fatal Familial Insomnia produces a syndrome very similar to what happens in rats.
Evidence points toward sleep dep suppressing and/or shutting down the immune system.
I'm morbidly curious how the doctors who said sleep dep was just dandy justified it in the face of the fact that many of the suspects they'd be doing this on would be carrying fundamentally unknown parasitic loads. People living rough in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq would be exposed to a wide variety of parasites, not all of which are easily treated or detected.
I think the answer is 'lying'.
I can't help noticing that ad was served up on a page about LAW rocket launchers. I'd love to know what the crippling self defense against them is!
Does it involve magnets, a plate of birdshot and a u-shaped tube?
The Governor wasn't the narrator!?
It's only one or two rules away from being a vampire.
The only things missing seem to be:
"The Ethical Governor must always stop to pick up grains of rice spilled in conflict."
"If a high priority target fails to invite the Ethical Governor, abiding by the laws of Vampirism, the Governor must not enter the target's domicile. Thankfully, international regulations concerning the behavior of vampires have thus far been mute on whether ordinance can be considered a part of the vampire, and thus the governor may explode uninvited domiciles."
Wooo hoo! Happy anniversary!
I've only ever sat on the jury of one trial, and it wasn't a grand jury case, but I did find it very rewarding. Especially from the standpoint of someone who likes to observe people.
From a tech-geek perspective, it was more predictable. I got stuck with making the video equipment work in the jury room.
Out of it all I learned that local casinos are -- shall I say -- interesting. And their security expert was an impressive character. He carried around a rolled up copy of Barely Legal Vaseline Bath Ass Jugglers or some such equally stimulating glossy literature.
I'd never judge a fellow by what he reads at home, but I will judge by what he carries around in front of the jury he's giving testimony to. I judged him skeevy, and at some point he will show up in my fiction.
I think there's another word that Mr. McCain is a touch overfond of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX1ImnGQYcE
Colin @ #14,
Sweet! New liquor to go hunting for!
Damn you! DAMN YOU!
I want that single malt.
WAAAAANT.
I very sincerely hope this is what happens next.
All to often it is not.
I'm pretty sure that the safety warning label that comes attached to most uranium ore says that turning it into a particulate is contraindicated for women who are pregnant, might be pregnant or considering becoming pregnant as well as persons in good health who are interested in continuing good health.
The university was funding shotguns?
In my case, they were pretty much most kinds of guys.
Oh no, not the way these guys did. It was abundantly clear from absolutely everything about them exactly what they were offering.
I was a total rube and I figured it out.
The single time I walked through Washington Square Park 20 years ago, at least 5 people walked up to me saying "smoke, smoke". It is one of my more vivid memories of the few hours spent in the city.
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