How exactly should one treat a supercilious wiseass? Is Cary's (successful) attempt to subvert the letter's tone a clever way to help someone with a problem of which he seems unaware, but which is on full display? Or, by choosing to display it in the first place, is Cary merely taking the bait and indulging a little peevishness? Smugness does beg for one-upmanship, after all. And what do I hope to accomplish? Possibly the biggest question posed here today.

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Unless a swimsuit has actual propulsive qualities, any advancement seems to me to be fair game. Phelps and his team are just upset that they fell behind in the arms race of swimsuit technology. Nobody is entitled to a world record, least of all those which were set all of one year ago, themselves aided by technology. This isn't Bob Beamon we're talking about here.

I'm guessing there's far greater support for this from prospective spectators than from prospective participants. Sure is easy to indict a puritanical culture when you're not the one being asked to disrobe....

I love Steve Morse, but nobody is going to buy a ticket to a documentary featuring him. There's your answer.

To the extent that men, as a group, might believe life to be more inherently competitive than cooperative, they may come to resent those environmental factors which don't enhance whatever competitive advantages they would like to have put in place for their children.

is the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. His duet with Roz "Pinky Tuscadero" Kelly (which is how he referred to her every time she was mentioned) of "Disco Baby" has to be seen to be believed.

A large part of the appeal of John C. Reilly is that he always looks slightly ridiculous, so it's hard for me to imagine him being credible as a mastermind in period clothing.

by "gone missing" probably wouldn't care for my favorite self-negating expression, which is "turned up missing." Words can express the depth of my love of that phrase, but I have not those words.

the best use for porn is not instructional, but as a quick precursor to a great nap....