This is the guy my mom wants me to marry

The fact that neither of us has ever met the guy is, apparently, totally irrelevant.

I'm surprised anybody is surprised that Alex Trebek was able to click his tongue. I mean, anybody can do that, right? I can, since I was a kid. I doubt I correctly produce the exact same clicks* used in this or that language, and wouldn't know it if I did, but I can certainly... make clicks with my tongue.

*_{Actually, looking back, as a kid, I may have stimmed that way. I certainly revert to making little rhythmic melodies when bored and alone now. Not around other people, though, if I can help it.}

The Lakota (some Lakota?) have voluntarily withdrawn from treaties with the US

I have no idea what the ultimate outcome of this will be, but I assure you - I am watching this story now with great interest, and I mean that in a not-creepily-evil way.

Edit: Taken from zorah. Lately, I always forget to credit, and I'm trying to remedy that.

Edit again: What looks like a well-thought-out opinion on it all.

Here's another one that's been brewing a while:

Okay, Mystery Writers of the World. I know you want to have a plot twist and all sorts of surprises and really have the reader not guess whodunnit until they reveal themselves by trying to kill the hero. Got it. And I can just hear you all cackling as you decide that the way to surprise us is to make the guy with an "air-tight alibi" be the guilty party!!!!

OMG! I'm so surprised! Wow!

Or, I would have been, like, 50 years ago. But now, everybody has thought of that, and it's all become maddeningly standard. And we've also caught on to the fact that if all the evidence points to somebody, they're the one person who could not possibly have done it.

You know what would be really cool? Just this once? If maybe, just maybe, you wrote a mystery where the one with the air-tight alibi was innocent, and the one who looked guilty as sin looked that way because s/he was guilty as sin.

I don't know about you, but me? I'd be surprised.

Just think about it, 'k?

Remember I told you about SuperDuck?

Yeah. Well, now the towel itself is "Mah supa-duk!" to Evangeline, and she wants to have it on her at all times.

I may have to take it to the museum tomorrow.

Gotta say, at least it's more portable than a security blanket. She doesn't hold it, it just sits on her head.

Do you know what I just discovered?

Fan logic puzzles.

I thought I knew all of what the dark side of fandom had to offer, but I was wrong. Very wrong.