Since I retired and the Air Force stopped making me run, I've gone from holding the line at 215 to a full 230 pounds. It's not fun, especially while I'm looking for a job. I put our gym membership on hold until the finances are better, but I think I need to re-up. The base gym is about an hour away....

I've had to do that a bit with Goblins. I think it's an amazing comic, and the art keeps getting better, but Thunts update schedule is hard to follow sometimes. The health issues didn't help, either. On the other hand, they're making a cartoon of it with a pretty impressive cast list, so I've got th...

I just checked the article, and they put in an update that the Melon Headed Whale that they presume is the father of this animal is considered a dolphin. But they are also cetaceans and therefore whales. Mime, if you're up to it, you should get a tour to Secret Falls on Kuaii. It requires some kayak...

Thanks to FB reminders, I'm up to date. It's coming to an interesting circle. I always thought Redcloak was interesting as not quite a villain. I love the idea of Erfworld, but once he started supplementing the art with textbook entries, I'm lost almost every time I check in. I thiiiink I'm caught u...

I'm hardly a regular around here, but forums tend to gel around the topics being introduced. It's a small number of people who generate topics and everyone else following the lead. If you've got other things you'd rather talk about, start throwing out some ideas and see what get's attention.

The only thing learned today is if you prattle on in an emotionally stunted baby voice with a smile like Dr. Ford did in Kavanaugh Hearings that people will say you are credible. She is a nice but emotionally disturbed woman. What’s so credible? Are you alleging that she is consciously manipulating...

You say faulty recollection was botched, but it wasn't. Look right here in this thread. WillyGilligan is a smart and reasonable dude, and he's clearly trying to take a middle road here, and the three options he offers are: she's lying, she's telling the truth, or she's got her facts wrong. Faulty r...

It's not a court of law, but consider the general possibilities. If it didn't happen, then it obviously doesn't say anything about his character. If *something* happened but her recollection is faulty or misleading, then it's going to take a lot more information to make a judgement. If it did happen...

The timing on both sides is all about the midterms. Pubs want it done and dusted so they have an achievement to sell their base on while letting it fade into the news cycle so the Dem base won't be as agitated. Dems pulled this latest accusation at the last possible moment to try to keep it in the n...

Victims of sexual assault who come forward should be believed until there is specific reason not to. People accused of crimes should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Threading the needle in this case is going to prove difficult for many. I don't know if Kavanaugh did what he is alleged to h...

Who are you rooting for in the World Cup?

Pornography was in a bunch of stores when I was a kid, but it was monitored and started phasing out by the 90s. Did that congressperson go on to start talking about how you can buy a pack of cigarettes from a coin operated machine?

Weird how a program fails a single child and it ought to be revisted or scrapped, while gun ownership is sacred and immune to criticism. Chicago has poorly written laws. The penalties for gun possession are less than the penalty exacted by the gang for surrendering the gun, for example. Nothing hum...

I don't know what is meant by revisit, or review, or whatever looking-into this program's far-right critics have in mind. Most programs need review, so it's not that this program is different and beyond criticism. It's that we have no reason to think that this program, its interventions, its rules,...

My instinct in these situations is to become verbose, but I will try for brevity. Can you describe what "revisit" means to you? Talking about the dead now is less about the Promise program and more to do with the 2 hours of daily commuting I do where I ruminate on topics like this and it b...

Yeah, I've been trying to nail that part of the story down, since I only became aware of it in the last week. Some commentary states experimental treatment, some just says treatment. It doesn't help that a lot of right-leaning commentators keep referring to previous incident with Charlie Gard and As...

Alfie Evans has died. If you haven't been following the case, the article does a decent summary. 23 month old with degenerative disease is in a coma and British doctors have stated that he had catastrophic brain damage such that further treatment was not in his best interests. Depending on that dia...

I think better diagnosis is certainly part of it. On the other hand, the switchover from hard diagnoses to The Spectrum is probably having an effect as well. Which I think cuts both ways. Similar to ADHD, I believe that some kids who are fine and don't really need much intervention are being put on ...