"What does this have to do with pro-choice?"

The curator was experiencing complications and decided to abort. I'm just glad there were no picket signs.

I have fond memories of the place. The claustrophobia attack that I had on the winding staircase down was just the opening act. How did they get the pictures to come out so well? The ones I took were barely tolerable because it was so dark down there. I especially liked the sharp-eyed security guard at the exit who checked our bags to make sure we didn't help ourselves to any 'souvenirs'.

So, who was the man who lost his face? Don't run a cover like that and then keep us in suspense. Unless it was Lon Chaney (in which case he had 999,999 others).

I'm old enough to still remember doing programming using cards that I completed on a key punch machine. I would have killed to have a fancy setup like this at home.

I think it was Ray Bradbury who growled once about how the old 1950s horror comics kept ripping off his stories without paying him. The "killer baby" notion is straight from one of his stories (but not the speech part).

Dude, Ebay.

Does it say something about popular culture that the album cover is less scary than some of the ones I've seen in record stores?

Obviously a sign of God's wrath. I mean, San Francisco? It's not quite a plague of locusts but the fundies will be playing this up for everything they can get.

"Hint: You may be a gullible cult follower if... your cult leader does not accompany you to the cave."

According to reports, he had planned to join them but was locked up in a psychiatric hospital instead. He may be the only genuine nutcase there. I hope he doesn't scare the political prisoners.

Can the porn version be far behind?

Why can't I ever find bakeries that do custom orders like this? They usually act like you're a nut or something for asking.

If they're that hard up for cash, they could always sell the passports on Ebay.

Thanks for sharing (I think).

I hope they don't sell that kitten to Cruella DeVille.

Forget fingertips, does it cure baldness? That's where the money is.

I sense an aquatic conspiracy...

First they kill Steve Irwin in the water, now they're killing people in boats.

We'll only know for sure when a ray hitches a ride to Kansas to attack somebody.

Cuffing people into their seats sounds like the next step all right. Of course, to make it work, they'd have to require all passengers to wear diapers. Depends, anyone?

"Most definitely a conversation piece in the neighborhood."

You mean conversations like, "When are they getting rid of that eyesore that's driving down the property values of all the other houses around here?"

Would it displace the same amount of water as a real gold bar? Remember Archimedies and his "Eureka" moment.

Why wait until they're in nursery school? Just take DNA samples from all the cranky babies in the maternity wards. So much simpler.

ELIZA is obviously in denial. I suggest immediate counseling.

There always seems to be a "window of opportunity" between the time when a drug is first developed and marketed as a cure-all or performance enhancing drug and its inevitable banningg. Check out the history of cocaine, heroin, LSD and mescalin which all started out as legal medications and only became illegal when the addiction problems became apparent. Any psychoactive drug tends to follow the same path after a while. First the hype, then the banning (or severe restriction).

It looks cool but I haven't been able to get in yet. Maybe we crashed their server.

They beseige us with crummy museums and they don't open this up to the public? There is no justice.

Helen Duncan's supporters seem to be overlooking the fact that she had already been tried as a fraud in 1933 and had been caught faking on a number of occasions. However she found out about the sinking (and it can't have been that deep a secret, especially for someone living in a naval port city), she didn't seem to have a problem with blabbing about something that the government wanted to keep quiet. It seemed like flaunting her skills as a medium was more important than national security. The Witchcraft conviction may have been absurd but I'm not sure I have a problem with jailing con artists.

I can just imagine those artworks being the only surviving evidence of our species millions of years from now. Some poor alien linguist is going to go blind trying to translate them.

They'd be better off denying tax credits to movies with bad production values. They'd save a lot more money that way.

"So, if CoS has been suing the pants off of people for "copyright infringement" all these years when one of their secrets gets out--then all of the judgements in those cases should be overturned--since they were themselves infringing on copyright"

It's the COS. They could always claim that the earlier book is ripping off Hubbard's work from an earlier incarnation.

If the estate of Alfred Korzybski hasn't been able to sue for Hubbard's plagiarism of Dianetics, nobody else has a chance.

I've seen medieval torture instruments that looked more comfortable. Maybe it's still being used in Third World countries.

I'm tempted to make a Batman utility belt joke out of this but it does look cool. Is it reversible too?

Speak for yourself. I so want one for my medicine cabinet. Where do you get them?

It would be the perfect desk for the Boss From Hell(tm). Especially if the boss dropped the hint that the poor slob in the carbonite was the last employee to ask for a raise.

They should burned just for feeding into the stereotype. Don't they know that real witches ride dustbusters these days?

"Inferno's effects include "vertigo, nausea, and pain in the chest."

We have that here. It's called hip-hop.