This guy has a couple of aquariums in his house, so he made a bunch of transparent tubes to connect them all. Fish habitrail! [link]
The Crying of Natter 49
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.
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Oh my god, I haven't had enough coffee to deal with this much stupid.
Huh. There's been no snow in NJ.
I was under the impression that one president had indeed been born on foreign soil -- as the child of an ambassador from the US to that foreign country -- but my guess was FDR and it is neither him (Hyde Park, NY) nor Teddy (Manhattan). Shoot.
Still, embassies are technically US soil, right? So if you want your kid to be definitely eligible for president, you could make sure you actually give birth on embassy grounds.
(There's the other question, where children adopted from abroad are now given a new kind of citizenship -- this is recent, right? -- where they don't have long residency requirements and once it's granted it's like the kid was born here. It's meant to avoid the whole "Whaddya mean I'm being deported to China? I don't even speak Chinese!" problem when those kids hit crime-committing age.)
There's been no snow in NJ.
You must have blinked or something.
It snowed in Fairfax County, VA during rush hour last night. But it was just warm enough that it melted when it hit the surface.
I'm pretty sure diplobrats are US citizens even if they're not born in an Embassy hospital. (E was born in a YMCA in Lahore. I suppose it may have been the Embassy Consulate Y, though, now that I think about it.)