Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Cool video of indoor rubber band powered model airplanes: [link]
These things are incredibly light - a sneeze can destroy one. They fly at slower than walking speed. In fact, walking around can create turbulence that affects their flight. Some can fly more than half an hour on a single winding. They're just mesmerizing to watch.
Best cc typo ever. A list of side effects of some drug:
may cause diarrhea, gas, bloating or voting.
That seems even less likely than the actual drug ads that warn against a possibly side effect of compulsive gambling.
An $11,000 single-cup coffee-maker: [link]
Oh! They have one of those at Stumptown in Portland, OR. My BiL loves that place, but he couldn't tell me why the drip coffee was so special (we went for a cupping, which was loads of fun and has left me able to sound as pretentious about coffee as wine though I actually know very little about either)
apparently, rice crackers and chicken broth were pushing it
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I wish there was a sought-after drug that lead to voting... As much as I like not running into a line at my precinct, it depresses me to be voter number 18 at 7 pm.
Oh poor Trudy.
Please let Devi's mysterious illnessnot be returning. She had a bout earlier and is downright subdued for her. Damnit. I want my bitch-psycho-adhd-cuddler back.
eta: from 1970 Time:
Can Atheists Be Parents? Apparently a New Jersey Superior Court Judge thinks not. He prohibited an adoption on the grounds that the adoptive parents are atheists.
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edit to remove outrage-inducing stuff 'cuz this is old news....