Amazing! They've come a long way from hooks and pulleys.

Now they just need to make one that can get wet. Being able to use something like that in the shower would be a huge plus.

I still don't understand how a cat could end up in the drywall. Did the drywallers back it into a corner? You'd think a cat would shy away from building sites altogether, what with all the noise and dust and smelly men.

Maybe it was a really dumb cat.

Too much of anything isn't necessarily good. It sounds like he was obsessed with it. Is he not allowed to move on? Granted, he's gone from one mythology to another, but at least with this new obsession he won't end up with giant blue postboxes in his yard.

Now, if it had been the other way around, and he had been obsessed with God and now he's obsessed with Dr. Who, I don't think you'd see many of the folks on here telling him to be grateful for his former obsession. Well, maybe the Christians would (but I suspect they'd be telling him about his impending stint in hell for abandoning his belief in God).

I bet Zack Dunlap is glad his doctors weren't so quick with their scalpels. It's stories like those that make one question what "dead" really is. Maybe there needs to be better criteria or something. I realize that doctors want those organs while they're still "fresh", but how can they really say for sure if someone is going to recover or not? Strange things happen all the time.

It would have been even more interesting if Clinton and Obama were related to each other. Talk about a family feud!

So... by that reasoning, Charlemagne must've been the only dude living at that time who had descendants. And therefore everyone must also be white.

I don't think it quite works that way, Jerse. What the numbers actually mean is that everyone's family has a lot of incest in it... whether we'd like to admit it or not. People used to marry their cousins (and second cousins and third cousins) all the time. In some cultures, they still do. Say you have four cousins who get married and have kids. Those kids won't have as many ancestors as someone whose parents weren't related.

I get what you're saying, but it doesn't mean everyone is related to Charlemagne.

"the nature of capitalism is based on greed, and that’s a good thing. everyone working for the betterment of their own lives has resulted in the most robust economic structure in human history."

That doesn't mean greed or capitalism benefits everyone. Were these people not working for the benefit of their own lives? If the husband has to work two jobs (and divorce his disabled wife) just to financially keep his head above water, it doesn't sound like this "robust economic structure" is such a good thing for them. But I guess it is for those who are already rich. Like Wal-Mart.

And they must have gotten a really crappy settlement.

I would have thought the cat would've gotten his right eye from that angle.

I love the random ads that come up based on the post titles. At the moment, I'm looking at "Blood in Stool" and "Constipation is Deadly". Nice.

It seems like some people don't like home birthing because it gives the power back to the women. We can't have that. No! Get them to a hospital where the doctor can cut them open or induce labour. He's got a game of golf to get to, you know. Silly, inconvenient childbirth...

This reminds me of that "Malcolm in the Middle" episode where Dewey and Reese bred the giant rabbit by feeding it milkshakes and bacon. I wonder what Amy eats...

Lots of U.S. politicians are related to each other. Makes you wonder if those conspiracy theorists aren't so crazy after all...

Good point, farm and farmed.

If this is what they want, great. I would have two concerns, though. First, what happened to his body after so many years of hormone therapy? Is it really wise to allow him to carry a baby? Will it screw up the kid's hormone system? And second, how do you explain this to the kid without setting him/her up for a huge trauma? "You grew in daddy's tummy." What?!?!

Sadly, these "chubby" sizes are probably the same measurements as today's "normal" sizes... with yesterday's "normal" morphing into today's "slim". People have gotten fatter and sizes have been changed. If you took today's "plus" sizes for girls back in a time machine, you'd probably get laughed at... or the people would be horrified that we allow our children to become obese.

Doesn't the need for a service like this tell you that what we're feeding our domestic animals isn't quite right? You don't generally see gummy lions or wolves in the wild, do you?