Read Stross's Glasshouse for a particularly nasty version.

There are multiple android apps for tt-rss, if you don't like one, you might try another one. I'm using the one by Nils Braden.

I'm using Protopage as my iGoogle replacement, and I have setup tt-rss as my Reader replacement. Neither one is an exact drop-in replacement, but they are close enough.

By "taste" do you mean the sense of taste? Some things are objectively salty, sweet, acidic, etc.

I can't speak to $1000 bottles of wine, but that $100 bottle took more resources on average than the $0.99 bottle. The land those grapes grew on is expensive.

I think my brain just exploded. What the hell are you talking about?

People keep saying this, but I don't see anybody linking to an example which works.

I know! I can't figure out how the Viet Cong ever kicked our asses. Or how the Soviets lost in Afghanistan!

Can I get a cite for that? I don't know that they have ever read it as "state militia".

Some do. One is Pali, one is Sanskrit. In my experience, Theravada Buddhists use Pali, and Mahayana use Sanskrit vocabulary.

This comes across as "I'm not being discriminated against, so I don't care if other people are". I don't know if that was your intent, or not.

I know people who really think Obama is the anti-christ. What the hell kind of anti-christ would he be if he couldn't even get re-elected?

What?! The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall were all great albums.

I believe they are also big on keeping their people off welfare. A one-year supply of food could help a lot if you had a long stint of unemployment. It's not just for the zombie apocalypse.

Another "god of the gaps" argument. We don't know how it happened, so god must have done it!

Is that the scientific consensus? Or your straw man?