"Caplan says the bottom line is that nature — the kids’ genes — mostly determines who they’ll be; the power of nurture, he says, is minimal."

If that's the case then why is the largest statistical determiner of a child's performance, the salary of his parents?

I think I'll stick with the bullet proof clipboards they sell to cops.

You can also just refrigerate the onions beforehand. Production of the gas that causes the eye irritation is greatly reduced when the onion is cold.

I'm with Jasony. About the only difference is probably that liberals dream of being chased by a disgruntled Sarah Palin.

Yeah a cat's shoulders don't bend that way.

Unless service is very good or very bad, people tip a given percentage. The real way to increase tip is not better service but bigger bills. Which is why servers should push appetizers and deserts to pad the bill.

Arsonists access panel?

Scarecrow's first aid kit?

Here hold this clothes line...

Missing the mercenaries series although they're 3rd person shooters. Mercenaries 1 has the North Koreans as the villains. Mercenaries 2 uses Venezuela.

The thundercougarfalconrifle? I heard the luxury version has so much more eagle.

Seriously, I'm with Jeff Cooper on this one. A Bugatti Veyron is a mil, but it's also the fastest car in the world. Why would I pay a mil for this when I can outshoot it with a Mosin-Nagant I can buy for under a Franklin.

It's interesting. My aunt had a very well behaved dog and their breeder placed a deaf dog with them specifically because of this. The good dog essentially trained the deaf dog by example when the people couldn't.

Needs a billyuns and billyuns reference.

No Jonathan Coulton's Code Monkey? For shame.

Some of these are definitely made up or at least missing the regional American dialects. I'm guessing this was made up by a Briton who things all Americans wear cowboy hats and talk like southerners.

For instance the big difference with garage is on syllabic accent. Britons tend to emphasis the first, while Americans emphasize the second.

"Now that Generation X is moving into middle age, they are leading a resurgence of the game Dungeons & Dragons."

Perhaps but another big reason for the resurgence is that D&D retooled to appeal to MMORPG gamers. 3.5 Ed was basically the end of the old D&D paradigm. 4th ed is designed around being tabletop WoW. The game has come full circle.