New diet proposal: dislocate or misalign your mandible; wait a few weeks; get your mandible relocated/realigned. The pain caused from the acclimating muscles and ligaments will not only encourage fewer, smaller bites of softer, uninspired food, but as the muscles continue to spasm, the quarter-portion of one's meal thus far consumed will be deemed ( Read more... )

Why are there ashtrays in airplane restrooms if it is against federal law to smoke aboard airplanes and to disable the smoke detectors therein?

It will be weird attending without her there. The comfortably-known other is a continent away for another few weeks, and I don't know her plans thereafter. I want to know who was at that meeting. At the "celebration," she discussed things as if I were perfectly normal.

In a conversation that I am sure we will repeat many more times before - if ( Read more... )

I should be packing. I think a year and a half is the longest I’ve lived in one location in the last 6 years ( Read more... )

I have come back to a different world ( Read more... )

I hate politics ( Read more... )

Por fin!  An arm of the judiciary branch has done/said something.

"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the president calls them 'enemy combatants', would have disastrous consequences for the constitution - and the country," the court opinion said.

This does not mean Mr ( Read more... )

I don’t know why, but that line struck me. That was the first time I had ever heard the legend (that I remember). I wonder if we won’t all have to wear Jester’s suits ( Read more... )

Into the Woods is an incredible musical.

“Congrats on opening yourself to questions...” Well, now the questions are coming.

I was surprised at receiving a text two mornings in a row. When I read it, my first thought was “Did she die?” I must have said as much aloud, because then my coworker queried me on the discontinuity of my emotional response to the question. A few minutes later he understood that I wasn’t laughing at the prospect of her death but at my not ( Read more... )