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An eye-opening ableit unscientific look into what we're really drinking. It might be what somebody is really drinking, but I've never had so much as a drop of any of those. I am often badly surprised by how much sugar is in some things. I suppose that it might explain why commercial foods and bever...

Communications amongst humans before the flood were telepathic in nature, other than for a small vocabulary of spoken words used by priests for ritualistic purposes. This was enabled by the electrostatic charge near the Earths surface and by the plasma of the antique solar system in general, and in...

Anti-semitic cartoons drawn by Jews.

Further: A science fiction epic that provides the surprising answer to one of life's greatest questions

I suppose that Gallagher's next show will be at the Westboro Baptist Church. That article shocked me. I can't imagine anybody saying those things before an audience that isn't intentionally littered with white hoods or swastikas, which I assume the author would have noted if they had been there, mu...

I've often dabbled in something similar. My city plans are usually inspired by Philadelphia and exist in some vague fantasy wherein I am let loose to craft my own metropolis. Below is one that I created recently. It was, sadly, created in Microsoft Paint and as such is inelegant and riddled with inc...

I'd be content to and intend to reach Yiuel's present weight from where I stand now. I'm three inches (7.62 cm) shorter than he is, but I'm naturally unambitious and nearly anything, to be honest, is better than being as grotesquely, side-show quality bloated as I was from summer of 2008 until early...

And now, the esteemed gentlemen of Star Wars , by Mister G. Peltz : Chewbaca wearing a monocle http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b6xckWxjCZE/TBcvcSDVqWI/AAAAAAAAAgE/fChGGx0Es1Y/s1600/Chewbacca.jpg Lord Vader looking like he's just led a glorious campaign against Ewoks who were armed with sharpened mangos ht...

Or Americans with pick-up trucks and bibles. :P Man, that stereotype is literally about 90% true for the area I live (hint: Texas). Well the Bible thing is like 100% true, the pick-up thing is like 90%. Maaaaaybe 85. It's true of much of Pennsylvania outside of the Philadelphia and Pittsburge metro...

About 105 (232 1/2 pounds) last time I checked. I am trying to lose it, but progress is slow, if there is any at all. :| I can top that, I weigh roughly 245 pounds (111.13 kilograms) at 5' 9" (1.77 meters); of course at the beginning of the year the first number was substantially larger. I can boas...

A special panel has recommended a trillion dollars worth of reductions to the United States' defense budget . I would very much approve of that and in fact think that it is too modest, but the many very depressing comments suggest that that much will meet stiff resistance. How do fighter jets fight...

I'm short Pthag, but that's probably wishful thinking.

I should probably buy some call options.

Amtrak 's service in the northeast corridoor, which is the lines between Boston and Washington, D.C. as well as some related routes such as the Empire Service from Buffalo to New York City, is quite nice. The tickets aren't cheap, but they aren't as expensive as what Viktor paid. It usually cost me...

This self-proclaimed Jeremiad against soccer , which many in the raucous Chuck-E-Cheese ball pit that passes for an American right-wing today have taken rhetorical arms up against , is so bizarrely dumb that it's at least as amusing as it is frustrating, as well as slightly surreal. A few select qu...

I had sworn to myself that I wouldn't prostitute myself for attention again in this thread for at least a month and a half, but it somehow seems proper to share with all of you a picture of my with my head buried in some bush. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4693758815_84540542f4.jpg (A larger v...

You want old fashioned? I'll give you old fashioned, motherfuckers! I, exploiting my embarassing ratio of obligations to time, awkwardly took the following pictures using the timer feature on my digital camera. I am smoking a pipe and dressed in a grey tweed jacket in all three. I have also waxed my...

Seriously? Aside from the tie chain, nothing that I am wearing is overtly anachronistic. Horrifying sight?! Nonsense! That beard is so precisely and perfectly cut that nobody can have anything but a positive opinion about your appearance. I take it that you are unacquainted with either SCTV or irony...

Gene Healy's The Cult of the Presidency has been made available to be downloaded (For those not interested in reading the book, there is his original essay)

I yet have designs upon someday buying a printed copy of the book, but for those not so intent, this should be a fine alternative.

... a pocket watch It isn't readily visible in the picture, but if you'll look slightly above roughly where my right hip pocket is, the clip for my watch fob is visible, if not obviously distinguishable as such. (I find wrist watches uncomfortable, awkward and dull) ... perhaps Boston high society ...

Just so that Skomakar'n isn't the only one making a narcissistic display in this thread, I present the horrifying sight of... a fat man dressed relatively nicely, particularly wanting to display the necktie chain that had belonged to his maternal grandfather and been sent to him by his grandmother i...

The Atlantic Monthly has published estimates of the net worth of the forty three President of the United States of America. The wealthiest, by their estimation of his net worth in contemporary dollars, was George Washington, who had assets worth $525,000,00. It's difficult from their figures to asse...

You want to know where I'm glad that I don't live? Alabama. Besides its ridiculous constitution , there are the following fine examples from its political advertisements for this year's primary elections: Funny name, serious leadership This is Albama, we speak English (With such sincere editing!) Da...

Wow, some idiot in a restaurant is all it takes. Remind me never to come near you with a feather, it might knock you down.

It would probably have been futile and disruptive. People who talk like that aren't like to be persuaded, especially by a surprise confrontation in a restaurant, and the whole thing is not unlikely to cause a bothersome ruckus to nobody's gain.

Another glorious victory for America's war on drugs . I wonder if the police proceeded to seize and sell any property to sell at auction. There might have been a gold watch in the same room as the pittance of marijuana that looked suspicious enough. And now closer to home for me: The Pennsylvania D...

Why does anyone use the phrase, "constructive criticism," anymore? People are only going to laugh at it, or worse.