I would have shoved her ass down the stairs.

I'm 100% with you - I was just commenting on how much garbage the article was.

It hardly reads like a scientific paper at all. It just talks about how maybe that is a number we can hit if we work to alleviate global poverty and poor living conditions. It says nothing about climate change causing increasingly scarce drinking water and food shortages. To me it feels like we could be very near the peak global population now, and are headed for a pretty unpleasant crash in the next 50 years or so, perhaps a lot less.

"That Ayn Rand was a visionary."

Nope.

I didn't know this and I can see how it colors the interpretation of Avalon.

You make it sound so sinister. Is there something terrible you discovered about her?

This is Alabama - they should have a "live" test run any day now. The only place with a more likely school shooting is TX.

BTW, anyone know if this thing is sealed? I could totally see someone pouring gasoline under the door and lighting it up.

I sort of see myself as a guy who keeps up with the news. How is this the first time I'm hearing about a sedition panda? And that photo - oy!

I've read everything King has written (including some as yet unreleased stuff - benefit of having a friend from Bangor), and I didn't care for Fairy Tale, mostly because I felt it had an extra 200 pages of fluff that was unnecessary and REALLY slowed the book down - King needs someone to edit him sometimes.

I'm reminded of The Stand, which I read both as the original release and as the release with (as I recall) roughly 350 pages put back in that King hadn't wanted taken out in the original publication. Of those 350, perhaps 50 were quality stuff - the rest deserved the cutting room floor.

Been on my to read pile since the day it came out. Still there. Someday...

Well, clearly This is Us lied to me.

I'm skeptical. Call me when he sees the inside of a jail cell.

Oh, no! Not the dreaded campaign violation! Why, he could get a mild slap on the wrist for this.

Just wait until they get all confused and start shooting down trains.

Loved it when I was twelve. I've resisted reading it again because I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed.

I thought her debut novel (In a Dark Dark Wood) was genius. Solidly mediocre since then.

Common, yes, but TX is off the charts for open carry. When I lived in Houston I would often see people coming out of the church in my area with a rifle on their back. I saw a guy at a McDonalds with an M-16 on a shoulder strap, Baretta 9mm on his hip, and something small in an ankle holster. He unsurprisingly got into a big, chromed pickup with two shotguns in a rack in the back.

Answer: It's Texas. Parents, you can stop seeking answers.

That's quite the deal. I mean, sure, Putin sent me out here ill-equipped and ill-trained to die, but I can have my sperm frozen, so that somehow in the distant future mecha-Putin can do it to my children too.

Whatever scrap of paper is at hand when I hear about the book. It's a terrible system, and I lose these papers constantly, and along with them probably a dozen book recommendations a month.

Does it even tell us if he ended the extradition fight? If so, I missed it.

Tommyknockers would like to have a word with you. Guy gets knocked out of his shoes by a speeding coke vending machine.

Seriously, big King fan - some of my favorite books in his biblio - but he does have some clinkers.