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Stapler Malone: Go forward, not backward; upward not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.... 

Simon Willard: Bob steps outside himself here. 

JonIrenicus: Puzzle spelled out. 

uncle ebeneezer: George's response here was absolutely priceless. 

graz: Bob takes Tom Jones down a peg. 

bjkeefe: Entry for a video dictionary: "unflappable." 

almostaquantum: Hooray: Jonah Goldberg dismisses the ticking time-bomb scenario. 

uncle ebeneezer: Killing the American Dream. 

osmium: Talk dirty to me. 

Simon Willard: The Evolution of Dog. 

Simon Willard: The Moral Animal. 

uncle ebeneezer: Matt Y’s biggest understatement of the decade. 

mikerpiker: Wright says in about a minute what I’ve wanted to say to the new atheists (and especially Hitchens) for years. 

Ken Davis: How does Nature do it? It’s those amazing self-organizing systems. 

look: Shire and Lee are developing a rapport. 

uncle ebeneezer: The point at which Bob should have declared victory. 

Stapler Malone: "I knew Maj. Deegan, and ... " 

Unit: Am I the only one who noticed this? 

claymisher: Bob, we know how you feel. 

Unit: Guess what, Bob: The politicians you like so much don’t, either.