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It's going to do some serious storming up there this weekend. You might reconsider.

Here he is pre-incarceration:

1/5 of a second

Rioting doesn't seem like the most logical way to protest discrimination. Rather, I think it will help ensure it.

The same thing that happened to Pube Club. Not enough beer lovers.

There was for a short time a brew pub on lower Queen Anne Avenue that served a "Wheaten Beer". This was around 1990. I no longer recall the name of the place. The brew was cloudy and tasty.

Ventura is a modern-day Malthus. Malthus was wrong about population growth. I think Ventura is wrong about America's ability to adapt to higher gas prices.

*politicians* of both parties engage in obfuscation and misdirection, but liberal politicians favor semantic pedantry. but liberals, who are NOT politicians, choose these tactics far more often than their opponents, because it is the liberal who sees himself as a nuanced, sophisticated intellectual, and it is the liberal who concocts complicated rationalizations for flimsy ethical positions, engages in semantic games to obfuscate and change the subject, proposes endless false analogies, and cites theoretical hypotheticals and utopian platitudes ad nauseum. Yes, that may be true but we are not nearly as good at putting forth unsupported assertions with the same glib aplomb that you conservatives do.

Wine tasting at Cave B.

I've not heard of it. Describe it please.

Hemlock water. At least it isn't chlorinated.

Some people argue that Seattle's water SHOULD be subject to the same rigorous purification standards applied elsewhere. Although Cedar River water is low in minerals, which is why it tastes good, it can be high in dissolved organics. When chlorine is added it reacts with these to form trihalomethanes, such as chloroform. Filtration would remove or lower levels of organics prior to chlorination, but it is expensive, so Seattle resists implementing it.

It would seem Vantage is about the only place with a prayer of being dry. Who'd be up for day trip for either sport or trad climbing? I don't care how much or how little experience you may have.

America is its own worst enemy.

AlpinFox

No one's going to bite? How about their favorite color of lycra? Maybe their favorite near beer?

What are the sorts of things that DFA and Dwayner might agree on?

There's a collaboration made in hell!

The next incremental step will be customizable "filters" that can be applied to Google that preselect hits based on their scientific relevance. You could have a site that ranks other sites on their adherence to scientific priniciples. The ranking would influence the order that hits come up in your searches.

As an adult who has excellent home dental care and access to a good dentist, you might not derive any personal benefit at all from fluoridation. You personally might not wish to incur any risk at all, no matter how inconsequential because there is no benefit. It then comes down to whether you would wish to confer its benefits on the less fortunate.

I didn't know that the Fido's name would get replace by a _____. That's pretty funny. Nice work Jon.

That statement was a bit cryptic to me. I was thinking back on ____'s attempts to tarnish Kellogg's reputation by spreading misinformation on as many web sites as possible so that information seekers come up with mostly negative hits- his. There are lots of people who do this with medical issues, because they feel so strongly about their opinions that they want to influence others.

Oly, don't look now, but you forgot to wear your foil helmet!

I think it was Trogdortheburninator who pointed out in another thread that on these super straight routes, the main purpose of longer draws is simply to get you past the piece. The angle the rope makes as it comes away from the rock to your body has a tendency to pull out on pieces. This is why I'll extend a tripled sling to full length on a cam, but just put a draw on a nut that is set nicely.