...that I never got around to implementing my Redundant Array of Free Email Accounts virtual drive idea.

And by OSHA, you mean MSHA.

An unrelated but vivid example of exactly the point you make:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news...

In short, cop lets his K9 partner slowly roast to death in his car while he takes a little vacation. Oh wait, I mean "the dog somehow let herself into the SUV while he was away for the weekend." Totally not his fault, not even a stern finger-waggling was given.

I feel like I should be outraged at this wiretapping article, but I find I'm merely unsurprised.

A more relevant comparison would've been, can you eliminate Paypal from eBay?

Everyone "knows" animals, whether what they "know" is that animals are dumb, instinct-driven automatons or intelligent, emotional beings. Rigorous, unbiased research is good for providing a baseline of information with better reliability than "just knowing." After all, assuming that animals share no emotional or cognitive parallels with humans can be just as error-prone as assuming that they're "just like us."

And then shortly after a decade they go and die on you. Really inconsiderate of them.

Time to declare a war on error.

A cat who didn't get his dewormer on schedule in '88.

No no no, the previous prez said it quite plainly. It's tourists who are the problem.

Disliking one side of an issue doesn't mean you have to join an opposing one. It's actually possible and even permissible to be against more than one viewpoint.

If only more people would realize this, Skub wouldn't be such a problem.

Believing in lies isn't necessary for telling them.

I think "holocaust" would be a more neutral, less emotionally-charged term.

A low-cut blouse and push-up bra always worked for me.

You caught him. Theo's actually a robot. Most of that electricity goes to feed him.

I've yet to find a player I like as much as wxMusik, which is abandoned, sadly. It handled every music file format I cared about, the shuffle function was intelligent, and it had a decent library management system and a database--an actual database, which accepted SQL queries if you liked.

That's a feature. Seattlites know good coffeeshops from Starbucks.