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I've been trying to learn to smile all my life, but I've never quite managed to get it right :P And that's just the indirect light coming through the window bouncing off all of the purple stuff in my room + the warmer light from the lamp overhead + the flash on my camera not being on...

Me 'n' my new glasses:

Where do I line up to make sweet, passionate love to you?

These are the sorts of stories that make me want to build myself a self-sufficient compound out in the wilderness somewhere where I'd never have to interact with humankind again. How utterly soulless would you have to be? -headshake of wordless anger-

Yeah, and I associate with lots of libertarians, personally...it's just that if I describe myself as one, some people tend to go SO YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE WACKOS WHO THINKS 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB, AND THAT BARACK OBAMA HAS NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE, RIGHT? ...which I'm not. It's just easier this way.

Fiscal Conservative, Social Liberal . Do what you want with your self and your property, just leave mine alone and try to pick up after yourself, plzthx.

Because that's not how we roll XD No, it's because we used to have this thing called the 10th Amendment that nobody pays any attention to anymore, and which could actually solve a lot of our problems if applied correctly - basically, powers not controlled by the federal government are ceded to...

Well then the people in this particular county can take it up with their legislature to appoint a local government that can actually tax them for things like this. That's why they had the subscription service in the first place, and one can assume they were reasonably happy with it.

So we should all not buy insurance and then just expect everyone to take care of us out of the goodness of their hearts? Maybe someday everything will be socialized, but for now the world works a certain way, and we all need to either play along or suffer the consequences. EDIT: Okay, impasse...

And you've just moved this situation into one that has absolutely nothing to do with the original issue. A man's life is at stake in your scenario. If it came down to my job and his life? Okay, I can get a new job, but he can't get a new life, so yeah, I'd give him the water. Or is this a world...

Call an ambulance on the store phone, give him a drink from the faucet in the back in the meantime (if this place is anything like where I work, sink water is complementary). If our phone wasn't working and there was no water for some insane reason? I'd give him the bottle of water and then...

It's not their job to protect the houses of the people who didn't pay up. I know that sounds totally insensitive, but...a line has to be drawn somewhere. Being a good Samaritan is one thing, but in this case the firefighters would have been using equipment and water paid for by other people on...

That's absolutely crazy. I had a similar experience when I found out that my fourth grade music teacher shot himself last year... Even if you weren't really close to the person, you still get that weird chill just thinking that they did something like that. Eerie.

Talked this over at dinner with my lawyer parents -- apparently the community only had a fire protection subscription deal because it was an unabsorbed township whose local government was too limited to be able to tax income (like, at all) and levy funds for their own fire service, and so the...

Seriously? I didn't think it was possible, but that actually improves my opinion of him somewhat. Still, he says so many things... Source?

I have LONG been of the opinion that we, as a species, aren't devoting nearly enough time and technology to that end. All of our squabbling over who's the most environmentally responsible or who has the best health care won't do us much good with a potentially fatal space object bearing down on...

I don't even care if it's a game anymore; I just want to know what happens next. If Valve announced that the Episode Three content was going to be released as a series of signs on highways to be read in the style of the old Burma-Shave ads, I'd immediately chart out a map of their locations and...

The fact that I didn't bat an eye upon reading this probably means I need to stop marathoning The X-Files.

Freaking hilarious. And further solidifies my opinion that, with a few exceptions, the Japanese can't do live action for shit.

I agree! I've been painting my computers since I was 14, and I'm definitely going to paint something cool on my next car (I only plan on having the one I drive now for a few years, so I didn't want to put too much effort into it knowing I'd just be junking it fairly quickly). No more blacklight...