Got a stalker? Carry a stealth pepper spray cellphone ! Here's another reason to be terrified of birds: you can get eye cancer from them . Not that psittacosis was a fun disease to start with, but this is really icky. William & Mary College has posted a delightfully contorted letter defining their reasons for keeping their team nickname "Tribe". As Veronica Geng once said, I love the sound of anxiety being rationalized. (via Bobby Isosceles ). Personally I'd settle for a ban on "tribal tattoos" and a good caning for anyone who uses the word as a noun, as in "the dude had a tribal on his arm". What the fuck is a "tribal"? Which tribe? Cherokee? The Jews? BOO-Yaa? Not only do I dislike the principles behind the Amy Foundation Writing Awards , I really really really wish they wouldn't use "disciple" as a verb. I don't much care to hear that our nuclear bombers are getting an "unsatisfactory" on their report cards . Wow, I can date a WHAT ? (Thanks, exploding aardvark !) So, we, like, dumped a bunch of chemical weapons? In the ocean? Until 1972 or so? And they're totally, like coming up on shore now ? (Thanks again, vark!) Local alert: does anyone else know this Italian market/deli in Tustin ? I just read a good review of it on the interweb and I like me some Italian sandwich.