And this guy's a journalism prof!!!!

Each of these elements have their own personal requirements that you need to understand.

ARRRRGH!  No:  each of these elements has its own personal requirements...

Or else deliver him to Colonia Dignidad as a Leftist

Murphy is a glutton for punishment----MINE, not his---aka a sadist.  If I could nuke Murphy, I would...but first I'd flay him alive and let him suffer for a few days like that, hanging upside down with fire ants crawling all over him and his skin embalmed in napalm.

Female Swat Team ;)

I do believe, though, that their garb makes for unwieldiness:  britches would be a better choice.

They even made a docudrama about her

She died while wrapping Christmas presents (!!!) and lay there for 3 years with the TV blasting away the whole time!

Aside from the obvious question of someone that popular being ignored for 3 years, there's the other question of:  who paid the bills all that time?  Rent, utilities, TV fee (in Britain they've got to pay for a TV license, if you can believe that)...  The stench from her decaying body was simply written off by neighbors as fumes from the nearby dumpster. 

Truly, I do believe man"kind" is the most bizarre creature on the planet.

Medical "Marijuana," Chinese Style

"Smoking tobacco was illegal during the Qing Dynasty, but the use of snuff was allowed because the Chinese considered snuff to be a remedy for common illnesses such as colds, headaches and stomach disorders."  (Wikipedia)

So, all you smokers, if it ever gets to where the Leftist do-gooders make cigarettes illegal, you can push for the same sort of tobacco exemption as the potheads have been trying to get for their pet plant.

(Imagined scenario during Qing Dynasty:  a young boy, around 10, decides to wangle some of Grandpa's snuff.

Boy, groaning and rubbing abdomen:  "Grammy, I'm feeling really sick to my stomach."

Grammy:  "Here, my boy, take some of Grampy's snuff to make it feel better.")

Another Version Of It

Almost 3 years ago, I had an interesting email conversation with someone about what would happen if a solar storm fried our power grid.  National Geographic recently came out with a similar scenario, but not caused by solar storm.

Sobering, to say the least. 

What If They Did It To Him?

"I do not quite understand what it is that compels me to type this letter. Perhaps it is to leave some vague reason for the actions I have recently performed. I do not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an average reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall when it started) I have been a victim [note the interesting word choice] of many unusual and irrational thoughts."   (My emphasis; full letter here)
 
Thus wrote Austin sniper Charles Whitman, shortly before he went on the shooting spree in August of '66 that killed 16 and injured 32.  He also wrote that he had been suffering tremendous headaches and wanted an autopsy done to see if there was an organic defect.
 
This man had been in the Marines.  It is well known that the military for many years did experiments on personnel who were not only NOT informed about what would be done to them or what the fallout might be ("that might skew the results"), but whose names in many cases were not even recorded, iow they were used as totally anonymous guinea pigs, and then simply sent back to their respective military unit (many of them were "borrowed" from various military branches).  Little was known about the long-term effects of the experiments, and yet the volunteers, after a stay at the arsenal, were blindly pushed back into the Army at large, with no follow-up care.  (op cit)

Might Charles Whitman have been one of those tragic victims?