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Wait. What? Moose is from Italy? Minestrone is. And Manischewitz was founded in Cincinnati, is headquartered in Newark, NJ, and is owned by Bain Capital (who also owns Domino's Pizza and Burger King and The Weather Channel, among others).

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A few years ago I was home, OOS, working on the van. Shelving or something. It was over a holiday weekend, I think. And this was just after they started the deal with routing all calls from people who weren't on a load to Driver Relations. I called in about something or another and was...

Benny Boo Boo

Paraskevidekatriaphobia. It's a real thing. Triskaidekaphobia is, of course, the fear of the number 13. But Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of the date: Friday the 13th. Oddly enough, its origins in many different mythologies and histories seem to be surrounded by food. For example, when...

Letting that interview go more than about a minute-thirty was just cruel.

Thereby completely offsetting the time you have to waste in negotiating a toll that our systems have automatically calculated. We do this because we enjoy class action lawsuits, and because we have a really gnarly "KICK ME" sign taped to our back.

Under federal law (the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the addition of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 (which hasn't prevented a single handgun related violent act, BTW, but at least it felt good when it was signed into law) 18 U.S.C. 922 (d)), persons prohibited from possessing...

Meanwhile, Laplace, LA, 85 degrees with a 100% chance of air conditioning.

Wow. OK. I guess that's really all that needs to be said, then. I will certainly defer to your expertise in matters of racism.

It doesn't really matter, does it? A climate full of hate or of physical violence is unacceptable. And other articles and first hand accounts from faculty and students outline a little more complete of a picture. The use of the qualifier "occasional" to minimize and marginalize the impact and...

An interesting take, I suppose, but it was because of the football team that this has gotten national attention the way it has. But it was more than just the football team. It was also most of the undergraduate student body, most of the faculty, and the deans of nine colleges at the university...

Dr. Ben Carson and Black Klingon Jesus Hanging out at the YMCA Sauna That's pretty gansta right there

It's not ultimate grasping - it's right there for anyone to see. It didn't prove that he was fibbing, it proves that, because he should know better, and uses the term anyway to make him appear more special that he was, that he embellished the story to make himself look good. One thing all...

You think I give a crap about any of this? A YEAR before the election? Bwaahaaha. :JC-hysterical:

In 2009 after I watched the TV movie, yes. No, being offered a scholarship to West Point, and then turning it down, did very little in and of itself to form his character, according to Carson. It was the day as a whole that did that. Being the top ROTC student in the whole city, leading the...

You keep pointing that out like it's important. Vigorously grasping, vigorously defending.

Yes! Except it was from a palm tree in the Miami hood, and when he wasn't being dangled from hood trees he was being stabbed so many times that he lost half his body's blood on a regular basis. It was hard growing up in the mean streets of Miami. Especially since he was raised in the Dallas...

You have no idea Yes, I know. Oh if you look at Carson a little closer you'll see quite the pattern there of tall tales, most of which, coincidentally, cannot be confirmed or refuted. I hate to quote The Church Lady, but isn't that conveeeenient.

I agree, and it's something I am keeping in mind. To a high schooler, it may very well be considered a scholarship to attend West Point, since colleges and scholarships are fresh on the brain, so a high schooler can be given a pass on getting something like that confused. Then again, he didn't...