TIPS stands for "To Impose Prompt Service". It was originally designed as a checks and balances mechanism to control the quality of indentured service received back in feudal times when landlords were actually lords. In feudalism, tenants were allowed to live on a lord's land in exchange for farming it. After a designa...more

Agreed, especially your word of caution about not portraying her as a skinny fashionist. TV clowns mutilate characters based on surveys and whatever Facebook tells them will sell. They believe that since they're producing a show the idea belongs to them. Wrongaroo. The original creators decide what's real, and they got...more

You wouldn't see anything beyond the event horizon, but you could blast the hole with electromagnetic radiation and watch it swirl down the "drain" in a dazzling storm of auroras. Peering into the throat of the tornado, light at the bottom would glow like any other where the tug of war between light and the hole deadlo...more

Aren't superheroes who battle the forces of evil supposed to have a costume? It's a little hard to tell, but all I see is shorts and a white shirt.

The MTV ****s probably set the whole thing up to pimp awareness for their show and boost sales. I've never heard of Teen Mom but I may check it out now. Chick looks like she may be worth a couple strokes.

I'm fine with the poster's word choice. If it's a spade, it's a spade. Discretion no longer has a place in 2013.

Only in LA.

It's an air force document. They didn't take it seriously, so why would the FBI? There's probably a cabinet full of similar reports stowed away in warehouse 13. Put Pete and Myka on it. Or maybe the Hardly Boys.

I don't know much about flares, but isn't their descent more sporadic? They're essentially tiny little rockets with no attitude control similar to a bottle rocket with its stalk clipped off. Even more noteworthy, spent magnesium emits a concentrated white smoke which the glow from the flares should strongly illuminate,...more