And then beautiful Mommy's daughter has all the ammo she needs to get her very own My First Boob Job at the age of 15. How precious.

However, the story made public by J. Edgar Hoover had nothing about Dasch turning himself in. Hoover credited “The detective work of the century,” and all eight men were convicted by a military tribunal.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ.

And I mean, I could understand reporting a bust while secretly stashing them away from the public eye, but to actually follow through with sentencing them? wtf?

I got Science, which is amusing because that's what I started out majoring in and there are good reasons for why I'm now a history major.

Yes. Very unreal.

Contrariwise: welcome to the Uncanny Valley.

Aww. That warms the cockles of my heart, though still ruffles my feathers as to how easily pets can be "destroyed."

Her teeth are whiter than the mug. Wow.

Seems like you could trick people into trying to grab just the top one from a shelf and then watch them panic briefly as the bottom two "stick" to it.

Thomas:
5 years old, actually.
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp

8/8. What depressing statistics, though.

Wow. Thanks to those twisted branches, at first glance I wondered why there were nooses in the family tree.

Aw, isn't it cute. Baby screech owls just made my list of Wild Animals That Ought to Be Domesticated.

Not all space photos are taken in infrared. It can also just be a matter of what kind (colors) of lens filters they use for some. They do try to get close to the true color, though. And there are many other kinds of light (by which I mean wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum) they use, though many of those don't produce images of stars as the common observer would recognize. Astronomy magazine had a neat little article on it years ago with a handy panel showing the same object's picture taken many different ways. Haven't found an equivalent online.

Maybe proper context would be something along the lines of explaining that this is an example of an uneducated Christian like and to avoid listening to the kind of teaching they propogate and that this is NOT the sum of the beliefs of Christians in the US or worldwide.

Anyone smart enough to care is already smart enough to realize this on their own.

I've heard the coffee made from this is pretty good. Besides, it's not like they don't get washed off, people. Or that you haven't eaten small amounts of fecal matter at some point in your life that got ground up in your hamburger.

Close. It was brought up in the book. :)

I think the Contact's "nuking an ant hill in Africa" analogy is more apt, DrJones. We could destroy it without them ever seeing it coming, and we wouldn't even feel bad about it.