“Sure, but he might not get it. Final meals are generally limited to food that can be prepared on-site.”

“At least 1,500.” If you’re using a semiautomatic, that is. You can fire off a 20-round magazine and reload it in 5.3 seconds.

Sources are silent on how quickly a Slate writer can cash in on a tragic shooting, but empirical evidence suggests “very.”

It doesn’t. It just made a lucky guess when it showed you those ads, dumbass.

Unless Facebook can read your mind.

“The current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—which is used by psychiatrists to make clinical diagnoses—still employs the phrase mental retardation to describe people who score below about a 70 on IQ tests. However, most who work in the field—including psychologists, activists, and bureaucrats—prefer the term intellectual disability. (The next revision of the diagnostic manual, due out in 2012, may update its language accordingly.)”

[A shout-out to this article’s author, new-ish Slate employee Adrian Chen, a personal friend of half of this blog’s editorship. Congratulations on your summarizability, Adrian.]

Probably not.

The debt.

I’M FARHAD MANJOO, WRITING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AGAIN. FIBBLEDY-BOP SHOOBE-FOOBE-DOO BLIBBETY-BLIBBETY WEE-WEE CA-CA.

Now give me my money.

• Vendors bid for spots around parks. One vendor paid $415k last year for a spot outside the Met and didn’t go out of business, so he must have made over $440k (to cover overhead).
• Non-park vendors only pay for a $200 permit. There are only 3100 food vendor permits, so there are permit scalpers and a black market.
• A street vendor organization says average vendors make about $15k a year after permits and ticket fines for multiple violations.

Time travel is actually very boring.

“No way.” We import plenty, could always import more, and our purchasing power would make us the last buyers standing in a worldwide shortage.