Old man or man-child?

“That offer from the Giants was a lack of respect. A total disrespect,” Renteria told ESPNdeportes.com Thursday from Colombia.

“To play for a million dollars, I’d rather stay with my private business and share more time with my family,” he said. “Thank God I’m well off financially and my money is well invested.”

What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren’t told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates. Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants who run after an oblong brown ball, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they’re called misfits.

So, we both agree that terrorists, in as much as they have a master plan, are not out to kill every single American. They are, in fact, just out to create fear in us: a persistent, nagging, every day fear that causes us to doubt everything we believe in, a fear that grinds at us until we’ve lost the joy of being Americans, and we’ll finally do anything to stop it.

Here was this blonde guy who wore his hair in his face, so you couldn’t even see him; what was the point of making a video? He was mumbling something about how it was fun to lose and to pretend, and then he just went, like, nuts, screaming that he was here now and needed to be entertained.

In a democracy, if you don’t attend to the interests of the poor in an efficient way, you’ll just end up attending to those same interests in a less efficient way.

A “crotchal” area feel-up is certainly unappealing, there’s no question about it. However, it seems that perhaps the TSA hasn’t thought this through entirely. Their little game of molestation chicken could just blow up in their faces.

That English mapmakers formerly placed the phrase “here be dragons” at the edges of their known world has somehow become general knowledge… and here is the list of all known historical maps upon which these words appear:

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In other words, there aren’t any.