After racing my son in Mario Kart, I had a strong urge to throw the *^%@# controller across the room. Fortunately I'm mature enough to control my temper, and instead handed the wheel to my wife and told her "YOU can race him on Rainbow Road".

Because as someone who writes SQL queries all day long and thinks this is silly, I now have a reason to feel superior. :-)

It's an average, not a sum.

(or was that a big "whoosh" I just heard?)

Of course we are panicking! If the uranium melts through the planet, where do you think it's gonna come out? (kidding)

True, but Sears ditched Chicago years ago for the northern 'burbs. I thought they should have re-named it the "Chi-Tower" (but now that I typed that out I suppose too many idiots would pronounce that with a short "i", which is less cool).

"my cat would make a fine hat for warmth"

your cat can knit?

Except they didn't just make a broad statement that such a thing should/could be possible. Any dummy could do that. They're actually *doing* it.

Or use the passive voice: Yahoo been done overtooken by da Bing.

Don't forget coal. Unless the citizens of Wyoming, Illinois, West Va, etc. rise up against their regimes, there's no shortage of that pollutant in the US for many years.

What if they someday develop a vaccine (I'm using the term loosely, I know) that prevents Autism? Will the parents' heads explode with the dilemma?