The disease is named for the presence of sweet-smelling urine, with an odor similar to that of maple syrup. The smell is also present and sometimes stronger in the ear wax of an affected individual.

He’s the ultimate in cantankerous dads!

A hilarious and poignant journey through our puny universe, this is a masterpiece of disquiet.

For example, the ADRAC Bulletin has spoken of patients with “uncontrollable urges to eat while asleep ”, but if the patients were asleep, how did they know they had uncontrollable urges?

Pursued by Lord Byron, who is desperate to get his creation back and perform further, ominous “experiments,” the pair captures Anton’s ardent imagination and he aids them in eluding pursuit and foiling Byron’s plans by destroying his mysterious steampunk machinery.

john c. halasz: And the idea that I can’t enter into the “space of reasons” according to yo’ fat ass,- (oow, when you’re completely non-responsive to the issues raised),- is just a further indication of the sorts of bad faith at issue[.] …

John Holbo: Just for the record – and not that anyone else is still reading at this point: I would like to say that, in addition to having an unduly dogmatic theory of the blues, John Halasz also has an unduly dogmatic and, presumably, a priori – or at least non-a posteriori – theory of the adiposity of my posterior. Really I have quite a small butt.

(From this comment thread)

When magic users, known as wizards or, perplexingly, WUDs, run afoul of strict anti-magic laws in an alternate Japan, they are defended by lawyers known as Wizard Barristers, legally trained lawyers who can both use magic and have passed the bar.

As a former gang member, Ichiban (Nagase) was witness to the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the aggressive passion he learned on the streets, Ichiban has worked his way to becoming a no-nonsense emergency medicine resident.

My mission, after apple school, is to win the rodeo.

According to the Fog Index, you’d have to finish 355 years of school before you could understand it.