Here is a novel idea: have a wedding that you can afford.

Already have "stuff" and looking for cash? A classy person would suggest that guests donate money to a charity. Classless people ask that the money be donated to them.

Class is becoming a rarer and rarer commodity these days.Try it though, and you might actually like it.

Insect, just like the amazing flying rods:

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Mathematics underlies everything, waiting, as it were, to be discovered. Here it manifests itself as beautiful music, brought to us by birds. Quite lovely.

That little parrot is quite neat. Good thing that these animals were found before the loggers clear cut the area.

A day without internet cats is easy to achieve: turn off the computer.

I am cat crazy, so the more cats, the better for us all.

Was Stephen Bennet really acting stupidly? Perhaps the burglary victim was so very hot he thought returning to ask her out was worth the potential dangers.

Evolution is evidence based, and requires no faith.

Creationism is faith based, and requires no evidence.

Is your faith in God so very weak that it is necessary for you to deny reality? Is your faith strong enough for you to forgo all the benefits that evolution has brought to medicine, science, and agriculture?

The evolution of flowers is another important piece of the tapestry of life, of where we came from and to where we may go.

"why bother having charity, monuments, heck even tombstones for the dead. They certainly don’t care anymore"

How many kids wish to have a tombstone?

"or everyone else think that it should or shouldn’t matter actually doesn’t factor into it at all."

It does, because this was not a private event, but a well-publicized event. That is what makes me think that the funeral/marriage service was self-centered and self-serving. The media was invited, and now we have to wait and see if a Lifetime movie is in the works.

Is it really cynical to think that this was about the kid and his wish, or about 15 minutes and everything that may follow?

People throw around the word hero too loosely nowadays. Every cop, firefighter, and politician is now called a hero just for doing their job.

This fellow is a true hero. He didn't have to do this, but he did, and saved many lives by so doing.

It mattered while the kid was alive if they were married. Now that he is dead, what does he care? It may make the parents feel better, but it is too little too late.

When GWB's sister died alone and all but forgotten, the Bushes played a round of golf rather than bother with a funeral.

If you are going to mourn, mourn. The day is not about you, but about the dead. Anything else is purely self-centered.

“They don’t even have to be factual facts”

Means lies, falsehoods, and mental trash. Still, if people pick up these "facts" and then spout them at meetings and parties, we can laugh at them for being stoopid.

That's all it took to ruin someone's holiday?!?

Hmmm....the other day a study was released that indicated the exact opposite of this one.

Obesity = too many calories in + too few calories going out.

She is pretty cute. I plan to have a giant stuffed 'wild thing' sitting on my head when I go see the movie, so no one behind me can see the film.