I just learned today that one of my friends passed - and I learned she took her own life. I'm stunned and confused and trying to process - I know everyone says this when someone passes, but she was SO beautiful. And she was smart and successful and classy and really together. A happy and social...
My sister in law is pregnant with my first and only nephew, Benjamin, and due in six weeks. She's been going into labor. They're holding her off with drugs until four weeks, then they're going to let him come out.
My question to all the folks who have done pregnancy and delivery and such...do...
So Rio has won the 2016 Olympics (the first Olympics to be held in South America), which as we know will be the first time golf will be an Olympic sport. (I understand Tiger will be 44, as a footnote.)
Rio only has two quality golf courses.
The famous Gavea Golf and Country Club
and the...
Fantastic? Funny? Just plain dumb?
I'll start...
World News Tonight, Charles Gibson:
"The birth rate has dropped for the first time in a decade. No one knows why, but experts speculate people are simply having fewer babies."
I'm gonna geek out a bit again, since I loved anthropology.
Has anyone else seen this? The extinction part may be a leap, but of course, there is no consensus on cause of the Neanderthal's extinction.
In other Anthro news, "space rocks" may have caused the extinction of the mammoths and...
I know we have some big readers out there. :smile:
I think it's time for a books and recommendations thread.
I got talked into reading Dostoevsky. I've narrowed it down to maybe The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but I am open to others. Suggestions?
Josh and I had fun with our Masters Bet, so we're doing it again.
Who will finish higher in the British Open?
David Duval
or Padraig Harrington?
<---(Not that guy.)
The Cougar Country Classic takes place on Sunday, July 26. It's a race where the women are fierce and the men are nervous! Men get a 30 second head start before the Cougars are unleashed to get their man! This super fast 5k race course is bound to be a cult classic. Lots of surprises along the...
What a strange story this all has been.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090704/us_time/08599190866900
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resigning
We were talking about how many people's first albums were MJ, and I was thinking it would be fun for the forum since we have such a wide range of ages and interests.
Whether a record, CD, cassette tape, 8-track, whatever: what was the first album you bought, honestly and truly yours, with your...