stop while you're behind.

Yes, they die off, but not until they've produced a bunch of dumbass kids.

Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It was a best seller for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Richard's_Almanack

In Poor Richard's Almanac, Franklin encouraged the eating of citrus fruits, including oranges, limes, and grapefruits. He coined the phrase "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" and touted the advantages of fruit in helping to maintain the gums and skin.

http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/franklin.htm

Not to mention that the "apple a day" thing has been a distinctly American saying for over two centuries.

A two-page article and six pages of comments, and not one mention of Chuck.

The most fun hour of television week to week, with pop-culture and nerdly references galore, great cast and decent premise. I'm disappointed, of course, but not surprised.

But imagine my shock when Battlestar ended to find that the show I looked forward to the most every week was stuck on Monday nights against House and BBT/HIMYM.

I was about to reread the article when one of the posters mentioned the fourth episode. Turned out the unmentioned fourth show was my all-time favorite, "Balance of Terror." Mark Lenard's first appearance, before being cast as Spock's father. With the inclusion of this ep, I just may actually purchase the disc.

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Forgot streaming Hulu and Netflix.

Just about every electronic gadget in our everyday lives has at its heart a microprocessor. So basically, your phone is a computer that makes phone calls and holds contact data, your microwave is a computer that emits radiation, your DVD player is computer that plays movies, etc. So why am I the only person who has bypassed TiVo plus DVD plus Video Game in favor of, well, a computer (I'm a PC) that does all that? Internal Blu-Ray drives for PC's are already under $150 and I'm just waiting for them to fall below $100 before I add the feature to my entertainment system machine. You know, the one I'm typing on right now. And playing poker on. And watching last night's The Office on....

I have good friend, 1st gen American born of Germ-Austrian parents. I first heard these coasters named as "bierdeckels." For decades I have considered a coaster to be one of permanence, reusable. Made of stone, plastic, cork, wood, tile, what have you.

A bierdeckel is made of cardboard and is disposable. That's only my distinction, and it's a way more fun word in my eyes.

Google translates the word as Beermat.

There is not now, nor has there ever been a Star Wars Christmas Special. They're in a galaxy far, far away, see, and it happened a long time ago, i.e. more than 2000 years.

Now there has been--aired once--a Star Wars Holiday Special. The first appearance of Boba Fett. And, yeah, that show was gawdoffal.

Happy Life Day everybody!

I can agree with pretty much all of the above article, as it's all pretty self-evident.

One point of contention is this quote:

"With no regulators looking over their shoulders, they got away with the financial equivalent of murder."

If they take the entirety of the assets of one person, that would be murder. Since they stole the assets that belong to all of us, paid to them directly by two consecutive administrations, what they are guilty of is Treason.

And I have asked this question in several forums: An obscure ruling of the Supreme Court in the 19th century gives personhood to corporations for the purposes of defending themselves in court, i.e. they have the same rights as a human person when they are being sued or prosecuted. If a corporation commits a capital crime, are they subject to capital punishment? If a company knowingly commits such treason, or even homicide (Ford/Firestone, I'm looking in your direction), can they be given the death penalty? Do they have the same responsibilities as a person as well as the rights?

"wartime national investments in industry, technology and science undergirded a postwar boom that lasted for nearly three decades"

Well, that, and all of our competition had been bombed to shit.

If this new teevee show is as good as the best episodes of "Beauty and the Geek," i.e. the ones where the beauties have to compete in a social arena with bad clothes and no makeup, I'd probably tune in.

Seriously, those episodes are gold, as far as "reality" teevee is concerned. Those girls' confidence, and even their sense of self, are so shaken it's profound. It's amazing to see someone realize how little they have to offer outside of hotness. Sometimes, they even change.

but,

Yep, that's poker.