Security theater indeed.

Glass knives. Ceramic knives. Undetectable.

It's not even hard to think of how to get things through. Not hard at all.

It's all just stupid anyway. There are PLENTY of other things to blow up, systems that are easy and trivial to put into disarray, ways to cost the economy millions of dollars.

One really good computer virus and it's all over but the crying.

How about they just send the certificate with the car registration if we haven't had a ticket all year?

Much more polite.

I don't even like traveling by plane in my own country anymore. That's pretty sad.

Security theatre has to end. Shoes and water bottles are not dangerous. Tourists from Iceland are not dangerous.

What is dangerous is giving up our rights and freedoms for fear.

That's dangerous.

Just getting us ready for the Matrix.....

Heck, they still believe Walt Disney invented Mickey Mouse, too...

I can't cut the pretty pictures out of a real book and do collage work with them....

Someone ought to do a magazine of just pretty pictures for collages, and sell it with a glue stick and a piece of cardboard....

Vernor is brilliant, and he's a really nice guy too. ;^)

There's these things called the phone and email that I use to keep in touch with my friends.

Somehow that works just fine, thanks.

Facebook is a scam to get your private information and sell it to someone. Wake up, people.

It's all about winning for the Republicans.

And then destroying the government and stealing as much as possible.

If I can't take it in the bathtub and drop it in accidentally without losing hundreds of dollars, it's not gonna replace books for me.

Sorry....

I used to have my kids find snails to race to help clear them out of my garden. We just drew numbers on them with chalk and drew a chalk circle around them. The winners were the first ones tossed into the street. We were trying to teach them to evolve and learn to fly. ;^)

High Fructose Corn Syrup is what is making Americans obese. It is in everything - even in many of those "healthy" whole wheat breads. I was really surprised when I checked ingredients on them. Since the 80s its use has been more and more prevalent.

Start checking ingredients, get the HFCS out of your diet, and you'll lose weight. Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible, snack on nuts in small quantities.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the South Beach diet, which is probably the most reasonable of any of the popular diets. All based on glycemic index and getting the high glycemic starches and carbohydrates out of the diet, and moderating the effects of the remaining carbohydrates by eating them along with fats.

It works, keeps you stable, and when you start getting out of your preferred weight range, you just go back to the phase 1 diet and drop the extra weight. Easy.