When her boyfriend dumps her just before the holidays, aspiring artist Trudie desperately kidnaps a handsome stranger named David.

A fiercely independent girl sticks it to her conservative parents by hooking up with a handsome stranger passing through town.

When the handsome stranger they’ve invited to join them for a cruise aboard a luxury yacht ( Read more... )

Friday Foster (Pam Grier) turns into a two-fisted avenger when her subject becomes the target of an assassination attempt.

Two-fisted trucker Jack Burton and sexy attorney Gracie Law must navigate a shadowy world filled with supernatural creatures and spectacular action to capture the culprit.

Set in the Pacific Theater during World War II, this ( Read more... )

Continually in the doghouse with department brass, maverick detective Azuma puts his badge further at risk when he sets his mind on revenge after a fellow cop turns up dead at the hands of a yakuza enforcer ( Read more... )

Soon after my last cat post, Strayboykitten went missing. I hope that as an adolescent male he just went in search of his own territory, given the presence of bigger adult males in the vicinity, but odds are he died. Straygirlkitten is now called Sweetmoo, and still hangs out on the kitchen landing ( Read more... )

Medical specialists in the US operate under a classical price-fixing cartel, with enthusiastic government cooperation: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july_august_2013/features/special_deal045641.phpRead more... )

This isn't directly about Krugman, but it's relevant to some of the discussion in the comments section of that postA few years ago, I sliced my thumb open while preparing a head of cauliflower. I went to my local doc-in-a-box and got a tetanus shot and had the wound sutured for about $200, cash, out of pocket. It took three stitches ( Read more... )

Journalists in general get away with a lot. When reading a report about an incident or process that they have no direct knowledge of, most people assume that the report is basically accurate--otherwise, someone would notice, right? These guys are professionals, they must know what they're talking about ( Read more... )

Take a look at Wikipedia's list of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues. Top average attendance is for American football at about 67,000. Baseball averages about 31,000, basketball 17,000 ( Read more... )

Aha, figured out the weird mismatch between social capital and user rating. There are at least two ratings lists: 'country=cyr' and 'country=noncyr'. I'm #1,940 on the 'noncyr' list with 12 social capital. Meanwhile, nihilistic_kid is #1,759 on the 'cyr' list with 128 social capital. Why is nihilistic_kid on the 'cyr' list? Duh, COMMUNISM.

I am #1940th most, uh, rated. In something. How much does a job like that pay?

ETA: Whatever it is, seems like they just flipped the switch on it and it's very buggy. I am shocked.