This is a nice story detailing Scott Adams’s problems with Spasmodic Dysphonia. I hope his voice is permanently fixed; I think I’d be suicidal if it happened to me.
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This is a nice story detailing Scott Adams’s problems with Spasmodic Dysphonia. I hope his voice is permanently fixed; I think I’d be suicidal if it happened to me. Here’s a lengthy commentary on the state of the “drug war,” why it’s always been doomed to failure, and why the administration is legally prevented from even discussing stopping it. Interesting fact: Since 1998, the ONDCP has spent $1.4 billion on youth anti-pot ads. It also spent $43 million to study their effectiveness. When the […] The New Yorker explores why we’re mostly fatties. The topic of “Supersizing” is particularly interesting: In the early nineteen-sixties, a man named David Wallerstein was running a chain of movie theatres in the Midwest and wondering how to boost popcorn sales. Wallerstein had already tried matinée pricing and two-for-one specials, but to no avail. According […] Eek. If you have time for a little long-form journalism, check out this GQ piece on a teenage boy in Wisconsin who posed as a girl on the interwebs to lure other male students into sending nude pictures, which he then used to blackmail them into sexual activities. Way creepy. Mark “The Shark” Titus talks whitewater rafting, The Ladies, and why “I want to put sex on your face” is the only pickup line you’ll ever need. I have found a new comic that you should read: Girls With Slingshots! Like all good webcomics, you need to start at the beginning and read through. Here’s an amusing one to whet your appetite:
What in the hair-raising hell is this all about?
Let’s just cover everything in rapid-fire list form, ’cause that’s how I be rollin’ fo sho. (I don’t understand many of the things I just typed.) I’m down to 249 as of this morning, despite drinking more than I should have over the weekend; I attribute the continued weight loss to constantly working on my […] Are you a grammar nazi like me? Do you enjoy secret societies? Well then have I got a club for you! On the subject of overeating and large portions, James Joyner writes (via Andrew’s guest blogger Patrick Appel): …[O]ne of the things that has long occurred to me about restaurant dining is that, because every customer must be served the same portion size (within allowances for human error) they’re naturally going to provide huge amounts of […] |