Couldn't she be making this exact criticism at her mother?

They do live in Montreal, but they're from the US. My wife was teaching them French briefly a few years back.

Either this was a planned photo or this guy is pretty damn quick on his feet.

Stevia really is natural. You can literally buy chopped up or powdered leaves of the plant and add it to your food as is. Of course, more often it is processed somewhat to remove the grassy taste and leave only the sugary taste, and then it comes in a liquid or something. Point is, this is not the new aspartame, it's a plant product. After it is refined (just like sugar is refined) it is 300 times sweeter and without the unhealthy effects of eating cane. It is not exactly the same taste, and some people don't like it. But it's definitely not synthetic or fake.

This world continues to prove itself infinitely nastier than we thought possible.

As many have pointed out, the guy is not registered to vote. It appears he also is not licensed as a plumber:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/16/joe_the_plumber_not_a_licensed.html and does not appear in the phone book for Toledo: http://steveyoungonpolitics.com/say-it-isnt-so-joe-wurzelbacher-not-a-real-plumber/ Lastly, and perhaps most interestingly, the Wurzelbacher family is connected to the Keating 5 Scandal. Coincidence? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DF173DF935A25756C0A964958260 I don't think so.

And this is the short answer: the “crisis” has been happening for five years already. Now a small group of CEOs pull an Enron-style rip-off, get on TV and scream that the “End is Near” so they can fleece us all of $700B+ while dumping all of the semi-rich people who work under them and have not yet lost their homes. There is no “crisis” all of the sudden, it’s been here for a long time and now suddenly a small upper tier of the population is getting a taste of the havoc they wreaked on the rest of us, while their even richer overlords (who are the ones who have manufactured this whole scenario in the first place) run away with all of their money + all of ours, once this bailout passes (which it will). As a few have pointed out, in many cases it was mainly unpayable medical bills that caused people to lose their homes, and once this $700B bailout becomes law, it pre-emptively prohibits whatever next prez from making any healthcare plan, because we’ve already given that money with no preconditions to the richest a$$holes in the country. This bailout is the very thing that will bring about the financial apocalypse that these people are pretending is at our doorstep now.

Well, honestly, she’s fairly cute, but I tend to prefer somewhat “normal looking” girls. And then she speaks, and like all other Republicans she is either a complete imbecile, a lying fuck, or some dreadful combination of those two things.

Presumably most mammals (and not just dogs) must do the same thing to drink. It is pretty interesting, especially when you watch a human trying it—he’s basically just splashing water up onto his own face by cupping his tongue forwards. I wonder how many proto-mammals died of thirst before they could pass on their genes? ; P