Ok, I thought “erupt” was melodramatic, but the horror is real:

Brand underwent surgery in July 2011 to try to remove the rest of the filter in her IVC, but the surgeons failed to collect the remnants after several attempts.

What is it with all this regulation? I’ll be so happy when people are free to make their own choices based on myth and legend

I think the incredible shrinking Rolodex of politicians in general is the reason for many such gaps.

We called it caltrops :) It’s also called puncture vine. It was a nuisance in Arizona, but I didn’t bike a whole lot, so I mainly remember the sound when a bunch of them are stuck in your car tires.

This is what caltrops means to me

Dried seed pods absolutely get stuck in your tires, and will pop bike tires.

Adding to this, beware of progressive lenses. Get dedicated readers if you need them for the distance of your screen so you don’t have to tilt your head even a little.

I think op is right. A new law that says you have to own real estate to vote would have been unconstitutional before and is not now.

Florida was a super close call. Most states won’t miss a few votes, or even a lot of votes in some cases. I’m not advising anyone anything, but I know some people will be making this calculation, and I think it may be the only way to get some new cards on the table.

The two parties are not going to figure this out. I think we are in the middle of one of those major shifts in the landscape. Probably still end up with only two, and one of them might keep its name, but it seems to me this country’s leadership has simply outlived its ability to sense the world around it. They’ve patched over all sensory organs with some kind of insider-curated feed.

Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it’s going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.

It’s an interesting comparison because it seems to me dueling comes from times and places where personal reputation was much more important to life destiny than now due to a lack of protective legal and other institutional infrastructure that dampens the risks in living and working with strangers.

So maybe any rising sensitivity in the present is due to the feeling that this infrastructure is weakened.

“but”?

I like your idea, but it just brings to mind how fragile all of our digital media is, not to mention the surrounding tech necessary to read and understand it. What we know works is to press your message to the future, grocery bill, whatever, into clay and then accidentally burn the city down around it – good for millennia.

Joust?

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I wonder if it would take more or less time with auto-complete.

Maybe just an awkward sales agent, or they thought you were mad at them for in their mind trying to help. I decline phone number and zip code all the time. Also been using someone else’s phone number at grocery stores for years – started by mistake. I don’t care about accumulated points or whatever but discounts at grocery store are pretty significant for me.

But I understand your frustration in general. Keep up the good fight :)

Doctors put him on a dose of 100 milligrams of vitamin C per day, as well as folic acid and multivitamins.

“He also started eating a lemon daily,”

Makes my teeth hurt

Corn, hush puppies, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes – insane dinner. All yellow.

Not sure this is what you’re talking about: Hitchens debates himself