I wonder how many of those sailors only had a handful of years to live when that picture was taken. Little did they know what was right around the corner.

I think Dan Savage should complain to the NY Times for stealing his already well-established catch phrase 'Death Grip'. Everybody knows that's for forceful Power Masturbators, not overly hands-y iPhone users! Though, I'll admit the possibility for those two groups overlapping is high.

Sooo happy to see the smug and entitled Brazil team on the plane home. Waaah waaaah wahhh.

SO. Not. Affecting. At. All.

It was like a 5 minute rant against King George (or whoever the fuck). It actually made me think that our founding fathers were a bunch of whiny terds.

@1, we din't enter the war until five and a half years after that pic was taken. I don't think too many of those boys were still there.

You've either misread or mis-headlined the iPhone article. Apple isn't fixing the underlying problem of a particular grip weakening their cell signal--it's just fixing the software so that it more accurately displays what a weak signal users have. Which is, um, a pretty weak move.

Why does Rand Paul hate America?!? Just asking.

And in other news with some local interest: Family of missing boy pleads to stepmother.

That's only partially true, Christin. Apparently there's a help wanted ad by Apple on shlashdot for "engineers with expertise in cellular phone antennas," so they've clearly realized they have a problem there too. A little bit late, but that's better than nothing.

the people in that photo are not morbidly obese and wearing old navy sweatshirts and flip flops. hard to believe it's the same city.