That is one heck of a class action suit. California law is pretty clear about this sort of thing. The cheerleaders will not qualify as independent contractors, so they must be treated as employees.

You are thinking of the Toba Event. Excellent point, Miss C.

I should probably read the article (and likely will later today), but would like to see the data normalized against employment rates.

A weapon, perhaps an instrument of torture, specifically designed for people who ask, "Can you hear me now?"

Darth Smoke XXL

Where is the question about wanting to buy alcoholic beverages?

Nice one.

Whatever is in there, it is at a triple point.

I disagree with two of these. First, since a buddy of mine created insanely large, staggeringly fast (for the time) data storage for the movies, extra rendering time equals dollars in his pocket. As for the scorpion kick, worth every minute. Carrie Ann Moss picked up Matrix Reloaded on her back and carried it home.

Not a ringing endorsement for probiotics.

My first introduction to Billy Crystal was his battling impressions of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. Brilliant work.

I was wondering what a Neatorama wine would be like, or are we more of a beer crowd?

There is a corollary experiment that needs to be performed: bringing the non-decomposing leaf litter to a laboratory to have non-contaminated decomposers try to work on it. If that goes badly, we might truly be in for a disaster.

This is just the old "Nature vs. Nurture" debate. It has the same logical content as the debate between "Great Taste" and "Less Filling."