Possibly proud means "not ashamed" in this context.

Overweight and obese are medical terms based on associated health risk. BMI is fairly good for average people, not so good for athletes.
 
Want to know if you are fat? Try this - lift your shirt, and grab a fold of skin 2 inches to the left (or right) of you belly button. How thick is the fold of skin (and fat)? An inch or less, ok. More than an inch, you are carrying unnecessary extra body fat which will damage your health.

"steady state universe" - sorry for the nitpick

"evolution states that we are continually improving "- No it certainly doesn't. There is no direction or purpose implied by evolution.

FWIW I get random crashes on Win 8.1 . Supposedly happens on certain video cards, even with the latest drivers, and an update is supposed to be coming to fix it.

Beats are not terrible, they are awesome.
 
Allow me to explain.
 
You are assuming that Beats are audio headphones, and judging them on that basis. Beats are a fashion accessory and a status symbol first, and an audio device second. My nine year old niece loves her Beats.They look cute, and sound much better than the throw away earbuds she got with her ipod. In that respect they are a great product, and fulfill her requirements better than any other headphone.
 
Now if I was looking for headphones, looks and conferred status would be at the very bottom of my list of requirements. I'd probably buy some Sennheisers with better specs for half the price of Beats. But then, I'm not the target market for Beats.

We assumed we could easily handle Ebola if it came our way, because we are the most powerful and richest country on Earth. What we should have done is asked, "What are our weaknesses? Where is our medical system likely to fail?" Unfortunately we tend to suck at this kind of introspection. If we had asked, the most glaring weakness in our system, "Not everybody has medical coverage", might have been considered. Then when a sick black man recently arrived from West Africa came to the hospital without medical insurance we might have thought "EBOLA" and treated him right away, instead of thinking "poor Nigger, not gonna pay his bills" and sent him home with some Tylenol.

Apparently four women is a stable number. This was the advice from a 14th century Moslem man on what is the best number of wives to have. One will be lonely when the husband is away, two will fight, three will gang up two to one, just as you said, but four works out to two stable pairs.

Just like the Big Mac is the most eaten burger.

America is different. My neighbor's old 1970 Cadillac used to have a 500 cubic inch motor. Math says 8.2 litres or slightly more than 1 litre per cylinder. Of course the fuel tank was about 80 litres. And you would fill it once a week if you drove it to work.

I once had a ride on an small airplane, and every control knob had a different shape so they could be identified by touch. I think the knob that put the wheels down was actually shaped like a small tire with treads and all. The throttle was a round ball (does balls to the wall come from that?) The flap control was shaped like a little flap. It made a lot of sense. Pretty hard to do that with a touch screen.

We used to call it "Dean's Leave of Absence".

Sometime in 2nd year of Engineering (for example) the beer drinking and f-ing around instead of studying would catch up to a guy, he would fail all his midterms or all his Christmas exams. The Dean would say, go do something else for a while, come back when you are ready. After a year of pulling the green chain or (insert your own miserable laboring job here) they would come back with a new attitude to study and would usually do well for the rest of their stay at university.

wireless is like bacon - best analogy ever. mmm bacon....

4. Don't mention that you like dogs and/or horses sauteed with garlic.

"You really need to just shoot yourself if that made you happy." You have obviously never had to use Lotus notes. If I had to choose between using Lotus Notes again, or being devoured by fire ants, I think I would go with the ants.