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QUOTE (3E8 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) Have any of you been on a flight with turbulence so bad you thought the plane was going to go down Once. It was one of those little regional prop jets. It was awful, the plane just kept suddenly dropping. Honestly it felt like we were just getting thrown about. I remember thinking, "oh f***, I don't want to die in grad school!" The eventual landing was smooth, though.

10 ways to publicly humiliate your wife.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 07:29 PM) http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/ Wow, that delivered exactly what it promises. People are weird.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 2, 2009 -> 10:11 PM) The larger point is that the "surge" is damn near the same in Afghanistan, and three years ago, everyone was against it that had a (D) behind their name. Why? For political motivations. PERIOD. Yes, there were a lot of other factors. And there are now. But the tactics are largely the same. Those (D)'s were pretty damn quick to dismiss it all because it was political, now the same tactics are supported. Why didn't you start with this post? Because half the people on this board won't even read it because you were being such a you know what with your first post in this thread. Seriously.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 1, 2009 -> 11:15 PM) Hey, I just realized, he's your Senator Better him than Coleman. Seriously.

At work we have one of those cd players where people can hit a cd and listen to part of the cd to decide if they want to buy it. Well, yesterday a woman came up to me and said "the cd player is broken, I keep clicking on one of the cds but it doesn't play." I assume someone had unplugged it, so I go over there. No, the volume was down. All she had to do was click the volume. Ugh.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jun 30, 2009 -> 04:49 PM) I agree. It does suck to be him. He has to be banging his head into the wall saying "I lost to him??" Coleman is used to it. He also lost to Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 28, 2009 -> 04:45 PM) Elizabeth Taylor is my guess Bite your tongue! (Or I guess sit on your hands. . .)

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) LINK Norma Desmond. Huh, that's perfect actually.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 02:27 PM) The real Ark would kill people gawking at it. It makes it hard to take it seriously if it doesn't. Eh, I just more or less meant it as a comment on the constant veneration of stuff like that. The search for Noah's ark, the piece of the "true cross," blah, blah, blah. It cheapens the whole thing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) That's what I was thinking... Does anyone read the bible anymore? I mean, all snarkiness aside. Why? The point is that we're supposed to take this on faith. We're supposed to take on faith the covenant, the struggles of the ancient Israelites, the resurrection. Why do people want to have physical proof? It's just so contrary to my understanding of what faith is. You can't prove it exists, so why get all excited about some (probably fake) artifacts?

Sweet, we can put the shroud of Turin in the same museum.

WaPo contest: pen the first paragraph of Dick Cheney's upcoming biography. . .

I have a great dane/lab mix and people are always asking me "Do you have a saddle for her." I know it's a joke, but damn, it's awful.

When the story broke I couldn't help but think of Kurt Cobain, and Marilyn Monroe. I mean, his legacy would have been so different if he had died 17 years ago.

I just finished reading Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin which was a really fascinating read. Grandin is an autistic woman who designed about 1/2 of the slaughter houses in the country. She advocates good lives and humane (fear-free) deaths for livestock. It was a really interesting book about how animals may think and how you can create a better life for animals (or at least understand their behavior a bit better). Her writing can be a little distracting (she goes on tangents a lot), but overall it's an enjoyable read. Now I'm reading Me Talk Pretty One Day (officially making me the last white person in the world to read it) by David Sedaris. It's funny. Really funny. I also have recently finished Devil in the White City, the last book in The Sandman Series by Neil Gaimen, and a couple of Agatha Christies. Ahhh, summer reading.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 12:16 PM) Chimay rocks. And kwok and Morte Subite. And I won't even get started on Belgian and French chocolate. Or Spanish wines.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) why do we want to be so much like Europe? Have you ever had Belgian beer?

So, while soxtalk was (sigh) down, one of my favorite blogs posted an artists rendering of Neda. Perhaps more interesting, though, is the comment section below that, eventually, filled with comments from Iranians. You can see the art and the discussion here.

And the Iranian government is now saying that the CIA or terrorists were the ones that killed Neda.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 04:18 PM) I gotta be honest, I would probably do the same thing and find it funny. Don't take it personally though, regardless of who the person working was, I would do that. It's the beauty of the male's tendency towards sophmoric humor, we don't mean it as personal, we're just childish. But why is it funny? I just don't get it. I'm not insulted or anything by the JoAnn thing, it just kills me that all the dudes that do it think it's their original brilliant idea. I mean do the women that work at Michael's get asked if their name is Michael?

I've almost got a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and people, when I tell them what I do, always ask "Are you analyzing me right now?" No. And even if I WAS a clinical psychologist you better be paying me for that. At a part time job at JoAnn fabrics men (always men, never women) think it's hilarious to call me JoAnn or ask if my name is JoAnn. Despite that fact that I am wearing a name tag, that does NOT say JoAnn.

Today you can join the National Marrow Donor Registry for free (usually there is a fee to cover the cost of the sample kit). So, if you're interested check it out: http://www.marrow.org/

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 02:22 PM) Not if they could entice Israel in to striking first. That's a fair point. I feel like a regime change could be really good for Israel, though. It would almost be smart for them to wait it out. A former student of mine went back into the IDF (her second round with them), and she said they were expecting something to start with Iran. (Granted this was before the election stuff.)