I'm a fan of Airborne. I always assumed any possible positive effects were from the vitamins and herbs and shit...

I take it whenever I start feeling like I've got a cold coming on, and while I can't conclusively argue that it's ever prevented a cold, it always makes me feel better (almost immediately) for a short period of time. Clears my head.

Maybe it's just the fizziness. Maybe the placebo effect, maybe the ingredients. Who knows?

How much is the appropriate amount to pay for a shirt these days according to Punk Rock Purity Police?

I felt the same way about the Stone as a lot of the other commenters here until I got a free subscription when I bought an iPod charger for my car (no shit). The covers are admittedly terrible and lowest-common-denominator, but I was surprised to find some great articles tucked inside.

Back in June 2006 there was a great multi-thousand-word piece about James Brown (before he died, even) by Jonathan Letham called "Being James Brown" that would've been worth the annual subscription price of $11.99 by itself.

And this year, Matt Taibbi's coverage of the primary campaigns has been awesome. I actually PAID for a subscription to Rolling Stone this time just so I could keep reading Taibbi's stuff. Check out his recent profile of Mike Huckabee: Our Favorite Right-Wing Nut Job. He clearly owes a large debt to the great Dr. Thompson, but there's been no one else carrying that torch quite so eloquently since the original stomped terra.

If you can't see it on Google Earth, it doesn't exist.

I bet she refused to answer because she wasn't 100% positive what her bible-thumping target audience would want her to say.