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I think it's not too much to ask that a president of the most powerful nation on Earth be able to handle a press conference without sounding like a frat boy after a weekend bender. It would also be nice if this didn't happen every time his handlers let him get within speaking distance of anyone from the press.

contacting the publisher and author would be more effective than simply complaining and telling people not to buy what is basically the only guide book to the area. suggestion: omit all the expletives when you do.

It's not my cat. I'm not sick. Sick would be fucking the cat, having it lick tuna water off your penis, or eating the cat. or all of the above in any order... I'm willing to bet there are, at least, a couple of psychotherapists out there willing to disagree with you on that. Then there's the whole issue of just because you haven't sinned (you haven't, right Mike?) doesn't mean sin doesn't dwell in your heart. But, since I'm not Catholic or anything, I'll leave that one for you to wrestle with.

Then: Now:

Nuthin' but trouble here, mate.

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Another thing is to drive around your neighborhood a bit. You might be surprised to find your plants in some neighbors yard a few blocks away, especially if there is a new house or housing development going up. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen/read about that happening.

The balkanization of CC.com begins.... I always reckoned I got into college because of the 'encouraging geographical diversity' criterion.

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Put some nice shrubbery in the middle and Bob's your uncle.

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We are unworthy of your fulsome praise.

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“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.” -Spinoza

"Road rage has a new name. In a report published in the June Archives of General Psychiatry University of Chicago psychiatry chief Emil Coccaro suggests that one in 20 Americans may suffer from intermittent explosive disorder, characterized by uncontrollable anger and unjustifiably violent outbursts." intermittent explosive disorder? hmmmm..... I ntermittent E xplosive D isorder

you must be gettin' your internets through pipes.

Hey! Peterbilts are the trucks of peace! WHo says math isn't useful in real life?

The individuals are being held accountable by their poor health and, in many cases, death. Is the fine dispropotionate to the offense? I don't know. Personally, I despise smoking but it seems odd for the state to be fining an industry for a vice it profits from. I wonder how much of that money actually ended up going towards public health. PRobably not a lot. Probably disappeared into 'the general fund'. One question, the state also benefits from liquor sales which clearly have many deleterious health consequences. "Everyone knows" liquor is bad for you. Are you saying it's not the same for cigarettes? If it is, why hasn't anyone gone after the liquor companies and the beer brewers?

Oh, great. All we need now is *more* people not looking at the road while they're driving....

And here I was thinking we were talking about people *today* showing a lack of personal responsibility, despite labels saying "Hey! Fuckwit! These things will kill you!". Even with the labels, surveys have basically said that even with that knowledge, there are plenty of people who don't care. I would be interested to know if, before the labels appeared in 1969, if smoking was really bad for you was common knowledge.

I don't know, do you reckon your average Fremontian starts hyperventilating while contemplating crossing 520? And why would *anyone* need to leave Pasco?