As a non-USA-citizen, I don't have any stake in the outcome, but I'm really curious to see how this affects Christie's run for the White House. Is this a big enough problem to derail his carefully crafted "Pragmatic, bi-partisan, get stuff done" persona, or will it blow over?

My personal take, FWIW, is that he either knew and is lying, or he didn't and is a schmuck because his whole team leadership lied to him for months and he didn't catch on. If I was a voter I would be asking myself, "What if this guy is elected president, and then one day gets mad at me?"

Didn't Sears used to do that. I remember walking away from a $200 pile of random merchandise when I got to the till and was told "Sorry we only take Sears cards". - "OK then, I guess I'll buy this somewhere else/"

You have the edited version - I learned "Black Boys.....".

Authentic - A marketing word used to sell blue jeans and spiced rum to tattooed 20 somethings.

Explain. Genuinely curious.

You should hang out with some Koreans some time. Their genetic mutation seems to be 2 parts Irish and 1 part Russian.

One more thought. This is probably the beginning of the end for OPEC.

Er? Citation please. None of the sanctions have been lifted to this point.

The moral of the story is Money Talks. An embargo is toothless if we have to keep buying Iran's oil. Once we can get our oil without them, the embargo starts to bite hard. The mullahs are looking at what happened in Egypt and Tunisia and Syria, and they can do the math. About 60% of their population is under 30. They are young, educated and unemployed, which is the recipe for social unrest and political instability. The sanctions are making an already bad problem much worse. If they have to choose between obtaining nuclear weapons, or regime survival, they will make the obvious choice.

Doogie Hauser SS.

My younger self was an absolute fuckwit, at times. He also managed to last long enough to turn into my older self, who tries to not be too smug about how much he has improved. My younger self also was busy making the mistakes my older self has learned from. As a completely off topic example it took me about 5 years to figure out there were some things I did that women absolutely hated, and another 5 years to figure out that maybe I should stop doing them.

Apparently the most important function of Google Glass is to summon "Internet Tough Guys" to post on Slashdot.

"If somebody dares to wear Google Glasses without my permission I will shoot them in the face ....with a bazooka!!"

There is not now, nor has there ever been, a shortage of good music. The problem is there is 50 times more bad or just meh-ordinary music. The trick is to find the good stuff in amongst all the crap.

Basically yes, this is how it was explained to me. The animal was herded by Anglo-Saxons, so it kept the Anglo Saxon name - Cow, Swine, Chicken etc. The meat prepared in the kitchen got the Norman French name, because the cooks had to tell their overlords what was for dinner (if they weren't French cooks in the first place) so - Poultry (Poulet), Beef (Boeuf) and Pork (Porc).

The software I run most frequently is

1. Firefox
2. AutoCAD
3. Borderlands 2
4. MS office
5. Skyrim

Only one of these will run on Linux. When they day comes that Linux will run all 5 I will happily switch, but for now windows is my only option.