No, most Saturday morning cartoon villains would be deeply angered if they were compared to him. Hell, Cobra Commander would be ashamed, and Starscream would be furious.

It happens with age. I suffer from late-onset lactose intolerance. My mother had the same problem. WE dealt with it practically - I have two bottles of Lactaid tablets in my medicine cabinet, along with Beano and generic anti-gas tablets. It’s just a fact of life, unfortunately.

B’cuz some of love cheesy movies; the more cheese, the better?

*GROAN*

Not always. There have been people who’ve accepted pardons while maintaining their innocence on the grounds of “I’m tired, it would take years to fight this through the courts (which I see as prejudiced), so I’mma give up and just take the pardon to get the hell out of jail ASAP. Then once I’m a free man, I’ll hire a…

I tip as a lump sum, but that’s because I’m a member of the Marriott Rewards Program, and I always choose the Marriott Green Choice Credit Program. If you don’t need your towels and sheets changed every night, you can forgo that for as long as three days. Which means that housekeeping will skip your room at your…

Simply take a small silicone folding kettle with you. Amazon carries them for as little as $30. You can heat your own water without bothering with the local coffee maker. Or, if you want to step up from that, there are folding silicone hot pot for about $15 more. If boiling water (or even simmering) water is all you…

Even medicare/medicaid will usually pay for them, less a small co-pay.

They’re just idiots who are more afraid of having to take CARE of an autistic child than they are of the child actually being autistic. I’ve spoken to quite a few under conditions of anonymity, and an impressively large number would look guilty and reluctantly admit that if they didn’t have to pay for full-time…

I’ve actually had people try to tell the police “Uhh... the dashcam was Photoshop’ed?”

Ignorance? Or forgetfulness?

Well, they’ll just have to change it, because, as any Trumpist will tell you, there can only be ONE “United States”, and that’ll be the USA.

Seems to me we’re going to have to start rationing the right to visit the wilderness. A pity, really...

Eh. You could fly. IIRC, the PAL-V is legal in Italy. Classed as a sport plane, you can only fly by daylight, and never in bad weather, but if you qualify for a driver’s license, you pretty much qualify for a sport pilot license.

I got to meet his daughter a couple of years ago in Denver when she relaunched her father’s cookbook. She arranged a small celebratory dinner in a little Denver bistro, and I just barely made it. Last available seat. *grin*

Eh. She likely believes it’s all about the breeding. You (generally) don’t really need to test a Thoroughbred horse - it’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were performers, so you can be (mostly) certain it will automatically be up to certain minimum standards, by blood alone.

Nah. Just a case of Miles Vorkosigian disease.

I encountered one MAGA type who was a little more honest. Instead of “True, but still...” they said “I know. I just don’t care. He’s one of us, that makes it okay. Because it’s us against them.”

Add this to the (now viral) plan of Terry Robinson to retire to Holiday Inns using both the senior discount and the long term stay discount, and you have a rather interesting retirement plan. Pay for your rooms with the card, rack up those points as you’ll be staying there continuously - and those points will pile up f…

Add this to the (now viral) plan of Terry Robinson to retire to Holiday Inns using both the senior discount and the…

Trump *might* try for the side trick, tho. First, issue a presidential pardon for Manafort’s federal crimes, then lean as hard as possible on the relevant state governors, trying to force them into issuing state pardons. I can SO easily see Trump throwing up roadblocks next state disaster, with a deniable back-channel…