Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter .38 Special  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


dw - Sep 21, 2005 2:40:39 pm PDT #9750 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

And now, the latest Rita the Destroyer update:

Latest pressure: 904mb, making it the fifth strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Katrina bottomed out at 902mb.

The storm should enter an eyewall replacement cycle sometime this evening, and that should weaken it some. Storms rarely stay at cat. 5 more than 12 hours at a time, so the 11pm EDT update will probably be the peak of Rita's intensity. After that, it should sink back to a high cat. 3 or low cat. 4 at landfall.


Allyson - Sep 21, 2005 2:42:12 pm PDT #9751 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

hate. job.


Susan W. - Sep 21, 2005 2:43:44 pm PDT #9752 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

t trying not to be nervous about the pill now that my NP and I just agreed today I should go back on it for a few months in hopes of convincing my body to stop having stupidly short cycles


ChiKat - Sep 21, 2005 2:43:52 pm PDT #9753 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Oh, dear. I need to go home. I just read Allyson's tag, which is:

bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

As "bent down and helped us pick up our boobs." So. Wrong.


bon bon - Sep 21, 2005 2:48:55 pm PDT #9754 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Here's a critique of the Gladwell article: [link]


flea - Sep 21, 2005 2:49:03 pm PDT #9755 of 10002
information libertarian

Have done Quicken. Have NO MONEY. Again. Wah.

Stupid husband spent $60 at Kroger today, buying STRING CHEESE! Doesn't he know that poor people like us make their own string cheese by cutting up big square blocks of cheap cheese?


Burrell - Sep 21, 2005 2:51:18 pm PDT #9756 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh. I so need to go home. But I should finish my coffee first, so I will be less likely to plow into the center divider on my way home.


Burrell - Sep 21, 2005 2:52:24 pm PDT #9757 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Malcolm Gladwell writes on many seemingly unrelated topics. I think he must have a fun job.


flea - Sep 21, 2005 2:52:53 pm PDT #9758 of 10002
information libertarian

He certainly has fun hair.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 2:53:43 pm PDT #9759 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I should finish my coffee first, so I will be less likely to plow into the center divider on my way home.

Way more important than me calling in sick. Make it so.