I never heard of mole-grips either, but they apparently DO call them mole grips, if you go by the GOOG.

I'm using a pair as a shower handle. The dumb superintendent of our building can't find a shower handle replacement so I have to make do. I'm moving, needless to say.

This is FORBES magazine, home of the ultra right, who think that any tax is a bad tax.

Chicago is a GREAT place to live. A world class city.

Nobody minds paying a little more taxes to live here. That's just the ultra right clowns braying about taxes again.

Here's a site that put Chicago in the top 10:
http://www.cityrating.com/

Here's a site that puts Chicago in the top 20 in almost every category:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/afc/2008/city/chicago

Taxes aren't everything, ultra right wingers!

I'm calling crap on this t.p. story.

"..including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in Canada."??? What percentage?? .00001??

Tree farms in South America and the United States specifically grow trees (fast growth trees, BTW) for producing this.

It doesn't help if you go overboard on the reporting, enviro-reporters. There's enough stories about environmental damage without going nuts about it.

Harry T is great! I've read almost everything he's written and he's written a LOT. This is the FOURTH book that's come out in the past month, I believe.

He almost writes them faster than I can read them. I always if it's a team of writers. Or maybe he sold his soul to the devil.

:D

Reading is not one of my favorite hobbies...

I feel so sad for you.

:(

Yeah, this was kind of like one of those “Wal-Mart is evil” attack posts. Or maybe a toned-down PETA ad.

I’m starting to dislike the Upcoming Queue, too.

Wal-Mart IS evil, though!

:D

If you dry it properly, ANY food will last for 20 years. This isn't exclusive to McDonald's.

Isn't that exactly what the Taliban does? Dictates morality to everyone else??

That's what Wal-Mart is TRYING to do - just because they aren't as successful at it, doesn't make it right.

They seem to OK with selling guns, which COULD be used for murder. But they worried that somebody might hear a dirty word.

Who would do that?

I have never heard of this, but it sounds like a bad idea. Pay off your own loans. I'm assuming the car dealership wants to pay off your loan because they are financing your new car and they make more money on the financing than the car sale, but for the person trading in, it sounds like a bad deal.

Yeah, Quasimike, but not everybody wants the American Taliban running their lives.

Skittlebrau! We learned this technique from Homer Simpson!!!

It's the NY Post.

Here's the PBS take:

Wal-Mart employs more people than any other company in the United States outside of the Federal government, yet the majority of its employees with children live below the poverty line. "Buy American" banners are prominently placed throughout its stores; however, the majority of its goods are made outside the U.S. and often in sweatshops. Critics believe that Wal-Mart opens stores to saturate the marketplace and clear out the competition, then closes the stores and leaves them sitting empty. Freedom of speech issues also come into play. Musicians are at the mercy of Wal-Mart's stringent content rules, forcing many to create "sanitized" versions of their albums specifically for the discount chain.

From: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/stores3.html

You should all take a lesson from the Mystery Science Theater theme song:

If you're wondering how he eats & breathes,
And other science facts...(la! la! la!)
Then repeat to yourself its just a show,
I should really just relax.

Relax.

Paper isn't waterproof, so they must be using some kind of sealant. Is that sealant environmentally favorable?