When I was in my teens my mother would always make some stupid comment, in front of my date, that I should ALWAYS let the boy win at whatever game we were playing so his feelings wouldn't get hurt. I said "What about my feelings?!?"
I never, ever deliberately let a date best me at pool or chess, etc. just to soothe his fragile ego. No way, Jose.

just because you can doesn't mean you should

That's impressive. I was under the impression that Amtrak is expensive.

Both pets look great in their costumes but I think the dog won paws down because of the eye make-up. Kudos to them both.

A former friend used a high powered rifle to knock off the pinnacle of a rock formation. I knew at that very moment we could no longer be friends.

I remember playing war as a kid and we did horrible things to the "other side", on par with those executions. We were playing, acting out things we were unsure of and learning in the process.

Kids need to explore the dark things in their heads in order to understand them and get them out. If they do it in play, it's safe. If they are forbidden to do so, bad things result in the real world.

First of all this is a really old story from like 2010. Secondly this is not an actual school play - it was made by a professional film maker in a rented theater using child actors. It gets passed around as a video of a real play but was not. Please spend the 2 seconds i did to make sure stories are legitimate before posting them. Though it is funny...it is not real.

Huh. I seem to have something in my eyes. Dust, I suppose . . .

Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth", from 1975, starts on a human-colonized Titan. Their income comes from mining hydrogen for fusion power. Clark even mentions how a full spacesuit isn't needed to be on the surface.

The Internet is a wonderful thing. I now know that when an elephant flaps its ears and wags its tail, it is amused and happy.

There's a killer clown running for president, too.

There's also a Killer Klowns from Outer Space sequel due out in 2018.

So many questions! For starters: Who opens a Coke that way?

I think he has a long and glorious future in retail.

The babysitting thing is the most annoying to me. Why do so many people say a father is "babysitting" when he's watching his own kids? That's just parenting, dude, you'd never call it that if you were talking about a mother.