Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: REJECT We all start off in this world as atheists, and most of us get indoctrinated into the dogma of religion. Virtually all religions attempt to shutter free expression within their ranks, rather like how casinos try to dissuade gamblers from finding the ....


Comment preview: Letting your imagination run wild is probably a lot more entertaining than sitting down and doing actual work for months and months and months. I fear that Molyneux is more akin to what me and my friends were like (or occasionally are like) when we discuss ....


Comment preview: The infamous 'blow out'. My daughter is almost 9 months old. Her first blowout happened while she was napping in her crib. Imagine going to her crib, bottle in hand to feed her and you walk in on what can only be described as a horror show. There was p ....


Comment preview: >So don t bullshit anyone, ever. (The greatest professional compliment I ever received was from an ex-boss in an exit interview. He mused: I don t know how you do it, but when you talk, people drop their bullshit filter. ) Speak the truth as you see it ....


Comment preview: I generally agree with the "threes, layups and free throws" philosophy but I'm going to take exception with a few things here. I think the analysis is a little over-the-top. 1. The future of basketball is not here. The current of basketball is here, as it ....


Comment preview: No, i'm not taking you for a jerk, I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say. My interpretation is that with ingestion, less than 15% of mercury is absorbed into the blood stream from the gastrointestinal tract. that means that close to 85% of the ....


Comment preview: UNRWA is the biggest employer in Gaza and in the West Bank. The purpose of UNRWA is "taking care" of Palestinian refugees, it has been doing the exact opposite for 65 years now; making sure Palestinians keep calling themselves "refugees" and educating them ....


Comment preview: There's a lot of misinformation in this thread that I'd like to address. Firstly... - Drivers drift in Rally because it's faster, or because they don't have enough grip to drive normally. Untrue. On a known dirt/gravel/snow/ice track, a car will be at its ....


Comment preview: You just reminded me of something my Dad did for my brother and I when we were kids. Once a summer, usually in June towards the very end of the school year, my Dad would secretly pack the car trunk full of supplies. In the morning, he would act normally an ....


Comment preview: I once woke up at the back door of a Chicago home, inside their 8 foot fenced and secure yard. I was awoken by 8 cops yelling at me and shining their lights on me telling me to exit the yard and come to them. There was no way to get out of the yard and th ....


Comment preview: This happened in Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium, I was a 15 year old high school kid, and like everyone else was looking forward to the match between the two greatest teams and arch-rivals in Ghana, Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko. The game ....


Comment preview: I ran cross country in college. During summer training I started a long run and about 12 miles in felt a swift and powerful urge to drop a deuce. Problem was I was in the middle of a development with very little woods and i was drenched in sweat and wearin ....


Comment preview: The Daily Mail, Piers Morgan, Katie Hopkins, the weather, the way that the introduction of coffee shops has pushed up the price of a cup of tea, early exits from the cricket/football/rugby world cups, reality telly (except The Bake-Off of course), Jedward, ....


Comment preview: Older teams with veteran players that have playoff experience usually win, but it's probably just the fact that older players in their prime are better than younger players not in their prime rather than the playoff experience itself making them better in ....


Comment preview: Obama will obviously blow himself up while shaking hands with President-elect Trump at his 2016 inauguration. Edit: The exchange will go like this: Obama and Trump exit their limos in front of the US Capitol surrounded by secret service agents. Before step ....


Comment preview: Back, and to the left. EDIT: There are several aspects of the assassination that still don't add up for me, the direction of the fatal headshot being the least of them (as many of you point out, the movement of Kennedy's head is consistent with an exit wou ....


Comment preview: I admire how quickly she accepts her fate. I like to imagine she's about to somberly address the audience-- *Well. There's no point in denying the situation. You've all seen it, my moment of greatest weakness, your eyes lain privy to the dashing of a human ....


Comment preview: Her failed moment reminds me of one of my best. I went to PAX East two years ago and cosplayed as Ash Ketchum. I had just put the finishing touches on my costume and as I was exiting the bathroom my friend nudges me and points to this father and his son, w ....


Comment preview: This is thoroughly buried at this point, but I think no one fits the title of "most masterful troll" quite like [Banksy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy). Unlike all these other pawns that got named, Banksy is always up to all sorts of shenanigans and ....


Comment preview: So we had our battle fleet in position, the greatest tactitians in our history manning the bridge, our greatest warriors ready to board the enemy. Thousands of ships filled with our species heroes and those that summoned them. What did the humans send? One ....


Comment preview: Not a kayak expert, but I am an enthusiast: That only looked fun until they smacked their face, maybe hurt their back, and maybe got jammed by the paddle, but I'm pretty sure that it drilled some important skills in a low-risk setting, which is pretty valu ....


Comment preview: "Well, this is fascinating" "I believe the word you're looking for is 'annoying'" "This is more than annoyance. This is insufferable." "I couldn't agree more. What kind of moron binds the world's greatest minds into some hokey child's riddle?" "Someone who ....


Comment preview: Oh my god there is just so much that pisses me off at the cinema these days. Leaving aside everything to do with other people (god damn selfish self absorbed technology addict pricks) and prices (how can popcorn possibly cost that much) it's the way cinema ....


Comment preview: > head coach Jim Harbaugh, who had turned the team into one of the league's top defenses but clashed with management and failed to raise the team's offense to similar heights. This writer knows nothing about 49ers football. By his own admitting, Harbau ....


Comment preview: 10:27 c4: Donny's Incredible Speech. Given while eating cereal, talking to a stunned, hurt Zach. We're all big brothers, we're all brothers.....(guys exit leaving Zach and Donny alone) 10:28pm Donny: You alright? Zach: No, I'm not alright. Donny: We don ....