The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Earl Cooley III:

Well, one cup a day makes a half-gallon container of 2% milk last eight days (unless I skip breakfast or have toast instead of Cheerios). The last cup usually has a noticeable odor. A full gallon would theoretically last me sixteen days, but starts going bad well before then.

I'd really rather not switch to skim milk just to make it last longer; that stuff seems like chalk water to me.

Do you think perhaps I don't have my refrigerator set cold enough? The dial is just numbers and not actual helpful temperatures.

Constance #40: Their rich neighbor hears about their generosity and good deeds. He sends them a feast to make up for it, with THREE kinds of ice cream! Everything's great.

The quality of rich people, except for aberrant statistical outliers, has declined considerably since then.

Summer Storms #106: One thing most poor people do is make groceries their only weekly recurring purchase.

I really wish a gallon of 2% milk didn't spoil so quickly; I have to buy milk in smaller units more frequently than I would like. I am not going to pour water over my Cheerios.

Non-unique evil is still evil.

Serge #4: may your day be brightened by turkeys

Fwoosh! (via Lila)

Aren't romance novel covers designed so that the consumer can tell at a glance if that's their niche type?

Bill Stewart #51: The two consistent rules of TSA behaviour are "We can do anything we feel like and you can't argue" and "[whatever arbitrary behaviour they've just started doing or only do at this one airport] has ALWAYS been the rule, and you should know that, citizen-unit!"

So, you think trying to get a TSA employee arrested for theft under color of law wouldn't work?

I'd like to recommend that old threads be protected from thread necromancy, automatically sending new messages into moderation.

When the TSA confiscates your property, what happens when you call 911 to report the theft?

I'm looking forward to the dramatic snow mobile charge up Mount McKinley to defeat the Ruskies during the New Cold War.

Serge #81: Teddy Roosevelt's Rouge Riders.

As cross-dressing biopic actioners go, that one sounds like it has plenty of potential. Recommended for exercising those under-worked cringe muscle groups.

Eraserhead!!! It has been a long-standing point of differentiation between me and normal people that I like Eraserhead, Zardoz and Liv Tyler's Armageddon.

I've always wondered how Richard Nixon managed not to get kicked out of the Quakers.

What is it going to take to impeach East Texas district judge(s) who rubber-stamp love and kisses for patent trolls?

Up on the chopping block? Podcasting.

Josh Jasper #122: I'm hoping Someone at Making Light takes a whack at the Harlequin / Author Solutions deal.

Here's a link to the announcement, for future reference.

Mary Aileen #95: My reaction to that news was, "The government wants me dead." No particular risk factors, but I was diagnosed at 42 with stage 2 breast cancer that turned up in a routine mammogram--no lump that anyone could detect, including three different doctors.

My logic is the assumption that there will be more Democrat casualties in the under-tested 40+ age range because it's the rich Republicans who can usually afford catastrophic health care. It's the same principle that drove the sluggish Katrina response effect. To be sure, however, I'd need details of the political/stock-holding affiliations of the panel that made the recommendation, to check for conflicts of interest.

In any case, It's fortunate that your situation was detected, and I hope that you are doing well.

The new report that de-emphasizes the importance of mammograms sounds to me like a Republican plot to eliminate surplus female voters (the ones who can't afford catastrophic health care).

I think of Gotham and Metropolis as different boroughs of New York City, each with its own character, as the others boroughs have.

Tim Hall #34: What's the best response to idiotic articles like this? Ignore the troll, expose to ridicule, or feed his address to the spammers?

B. Expose to ridicule (preferably with train-theme poetry).

Marilee #906: Earl Cooley III, are you related to this smoke jumper?

I wish I was; he was a real larger than life kind of guy. If there is any relation, it's very distant. Another Cooley I wish I was related to was one of the inventors of the fax machine. One Cooley who also passed recently I hope to hell I'm not related to caused me to have to prove that I was a loyal supporter of the EFF and not a venal destroyer of lives.

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