This blog entry is pretty good.

If rescued by helicopter? Maybe. But USCG/Navy also isn’t going to simply leave the boat bobbing around, they will send someone to retrieve it to keep it from becoming a hazzard.

So you’re saying that you weren’t an actor/performer? That would’ve made you a normal 13 year old.

Oh you’re so young....

I hate it when I stop at a red, in the left turn lane, and here comes a cyclist squeezing through traffic to stop in front of me, then cycle out into the intersection before the light even turns green just to get a head start. Then it turns green, and there’s a bike in my way.

You sound like the kind of guy who plays amateur traffic cop in the passing lane.

I think politeness and befuddlement go hand in hand. I grew up in a small town, and a lot of its citizens never ventured beyond its borders. Something as simple as a 4-way stop confused the hell out of these people. They could arrive slightly before 3 other cars and end up waving everybody through, simply because the…

I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned: Cyclist, if you are driving on the road, you have to follow ALL the laws. That includes making a full stop at a stop sign and actually stopping at a red light.

When being polite to one person means being an asshole and inconveniencing another (usually more)... it’s not really being polite.

The polite thing drives me bonkers. Not only does it cause slow downs but it causes accidents. If you have the right away, you go. If you have a sign (or lack of sign) telling you to do something, do it. There’s an entrance at a shopping center near me where it’s a 3 way intersection. Cars coming off a major strip…

Calm the fuck down there, Black Mirror.

Plus: no tax

I Kinja’ed about this in another article about Discovery. Non-serialized TV was mostly a necessity back before Netflix and DVRs. Back then, if you missed an episode, you missed it. At least until it showed up again in a summer re-run or in syndication. Sure, VCRs have been a thing for a lot longer, but you had to…

Serialization fixes the single worst thing about Star Trek; that nothing of significance ever happens. Every episode is wrapped up by the end and the characters come full circle.

I don’t get this. How would him mourning her have changed how that episode was done? “City on the Edge of Forever” could be done the exact same. The episodes after it would have the mourning.

Yeah, the fact that Punisher uses a gun is irrelevant to me. I posted in a different comment, but:

Except that ants or cockroaches didn’t create us?

Even among the depressed, suicide is much more common among people who own guns. The suicide rate among gun owners declines with reduced gun access, so things like longer waiting periods, mental health screening, and safety requirements like trigger locks/gun safes (which can significantly disrupt the connection…

If only we lived in a world in which EVERY other country on earth has stricter gun laws and do not have the issues with mass shootings that we have here. If only there was some kind of blueprint for effective gun control to lower gun related crimes. Oh well, I guess such a thing is just a pipe dream.