Hatesthisdude have you ever seen how squirrels ravage a fruit tree? My great grandma had fruit trees that were pretty much her only method of procuring fruit (she was piss poor and pot shy).

Anyhow squirrels were the bane of her existence, because they will take two bites of a plum, and throw it on the ground, then grab another plum, and so on until they get tired of wasting fruit.

Squirrels are rats with furry tails. Sure, they are cute, but the net effect is about the same as crows, locusts, or weevils. At least someone has found an (arguably) amusing use for these pests.

What, pray tell, is an "assault knife"?

I just couldn't slog through it all. I got to about 4 minutes before the saccharine made my ears bleed.

Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't give any president the authority to turn off my garbage disposal, let alone the galactic interwebs. Not portions, not anything.

Gordon Gekko is a socialist's straw man; a caricature of the greedy capitalist, so in the mind of the writer it is not a question of savvy businessman or selfish villain. The two are synonymous in this view.

I remember bayonet training well; it was part of a week of "aggression training" week. It was hard to believe that grown men needed to be "reprogrammed" to be aggressive, but a lot of the males and females just didn't have the eye of the tiger. Most of the males had plenty of aggression. Good times.

Tool's Song "Lateralus" also uses the golden ratio. Look for the video "The Fibonacci in Lateralus" on Youtube, it's good stuff.

You can buy 2 lb boxes of silica desiccant at Harbor Freight for like $4. It even turns pink when it's been saturated, so you know to change it out.

Even better, you can bake it in the oven at 200 degrees F for 15 minutes and it's good to go again.

Big Brother will be charitable for you with your money, but you'd better not get any unapproved charitable impulses with the loot that they rightfully stole form you to give to you.

The best jousting injury that I've heard of (from a jouster) was a partially severed scrotum from a broken lance.

He's absolutely right. Push past the knee-jerk reaction and move through this logically.

Not everyone flies with luggage, but most rates reflect the expectation that you will. My brother flies all over the country on a regular basis, and often he flies out and back the same day. He's home by the end of the day, and doesn't take luggage. Why should he pay for a service he doesn't use? Why should the cost of your luggage be pushed on to me if I don't need luggage moved? You need it, great; you pay. Not me.

People are looking at one single fee and getting mad, but not the overall savings potential for those who travel light.