There's a very real possibility a couple of black men sneaking into certain events, for instance a Superbowl in New Orleans, would stand out even less than a couple of young white men. That said (with regard to the cat and mouse analogy), when you're playing a mouse and there's no real chance the cat will catch and eat you, the pressure and nervousness factor is an order of magnitude less than a real run at espionage.

I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved. _1st General Order, US Army. Heresay military studies of the time of my introduction to olive drab as a fashion statement were reported to suggest that privates with higher ASVAB scores (military IQ test) made worse sentries that those below a certain level of measured intelligence.

It's news for a reason. It seems unlikely he is strapped for cash, and as he's acting Executive Chairman of Google, a significant stock sale has to mean he's convinced the market capitalization for his Outfit has peaked. Often, if you look way up ahead in the distance, you can just make out the Captain running ahead of all those rats.

Temporarily, methane is a more potent threat. There is also a school of thought that implies burning natural gas instead of coal for electrical production saves on CO2 emissions, but detractors contend the greenhouse gases emitted during it's recovery aren't factored in. There is no perfect, sustainable, nonpolluting source of energy available to us yet.

That's the thing about both mouth-breathers and careless drivers: no one place has a monopoly on either, not that they're mutually exclusive. Nothing chaps my ass like another driver who isn't operating his/her self-propelled internal combustion engine properly, you know, like I do.

Libertarians wish to crack open the State. Hippies are only too happy to break out the pot.

They are a flatulent bunch, as I am when dining exclusively on a diet of greens.... As a cautionary tale though, I checked with the EPA website, and their figures indicate that electricity(40%) and transportation(31%) are the largest contributors to U.S. CO2 emissions from 1990-2010. It may indeed be determined one day that the sacrifice in land and water resources is too great to sustain the First World luxury that is the ribeye steak (sorry about that, grandchildren), but I would grudgingly eat lab-grown protein way, way, way before I would be willing to live without power and a horseless carriage.

You so limit yourself if you let facts get in the way. What troubles me most is the number of sentient people I know who listen to, believe, and repeat verbatim what they hear on Murdoch's newscast.

Well done. I would add unhappy to your list of qualities that make up the bulk of social site users. Many of the people I know who are regular users remain in contact with old flames even though they are now like Al Bundy. Here's to hoping these extra opportunities to procreate don't result in the psychologically healthy being out-bred by this genotypical subset. Oh wait...

We eat lunch together daily, and more often than not, I pick up the tab. Chipping in is encouraged, rather than making it a formal "Company pays for lunch" perk, because I enjoy the check-shuck-and-jive charade. One chap times his bathroom break impeccably to the check's arrival, and others have competed to see who can nonchalantly lose the draw of the wallets contest. But then, I am easily amused.

I'm with you here, but the lack of shock, surprise, and outrage is a terrible indication that we've become so comfortable with the misdeeds of our political and financial leaders that we expect no better from them. They egregiously abuse their positions for monetary gain, quite often with consequences no more severe than the obligatory 50 lashes with a wet noodle, when a federal sentence with a side of prison rape seem much more appropriate.