If you print faster than you can write in cursive, then you're not skilled enough in cursive to take full advantage of the speed and efficiency of cursive.

With a little practice, and by allowing the hand to become natural and flowing rather than trying to adhere to the rigid, awkward movements of d'nealian et al, cursive writing will become so fast as to make printing letters seem like an enormous waste of time.

Strangely enough, an environment that is hostile to business and industry tends to scare potential employers off to other states.

Omni Consumer Products could have done better.

But no, automatic pistols are not what my kids will be shooting. Too much potential for accidental firing.

I'd much rather have children who could wield weapons responsibly and safely than children who simply had irrational fears of inanimate objects.

This is why you always use your own hammer.

spaghetti cutter

They're going to monitor it for three weeks to make sure it's healthy enough to be culled. Heh.

I'd argue that economically, at least, Star Trek is right in the middle of the road. Technology, not idealistic crap, is responsible for the good life. Replicators, transporters, and access to infinite resources (of lifeless planets) create a world in which hunger, disease, and landgrabs (and quite possibly religion) are obsolete.

Technology burgeons in times of strife (see WWII), and sometimes the status quo changes virtually overnight (petroleum replaces whale fat). Who fosters the development of new technology? Greedy capitalists who fund grants and laboratories, using Money, often in the name of defense.

Both the left and right try their best to hobble technology. Those who would have us drive oxcarts and recycle our farts while China builds more coal power plants are as imposing as those who insist on teaching that Christ rode a dinosaur to work every morning.

Some things just make the world seem great once again. This is one of them.

Careful. Mondegreens are serious business.

Sorry--forgot the rimshot.
No, she didn't really get arrested.

...officials promptly arrested Mrs. Hirst on charges of violating her own safety and jeopardizing the emotional welfare of her assailant.

The cat probably leaves nasty stray cat prints all over the work area and desktops at night, as cats do.

I've seen some real underground cat-juggling performances in my day, and this ain't one of them. The thrower doesn't even have a cigarette!

What a bunch of sissies. Thank God we've allowed at least enough animal cruelty to get a few medications. Here in the pinnacle of decadence, feline mental health advocates outnumber the humanitarians. Shazaam.