@LukeDukem: You know, you can just call him "Mike", er..."J"

I was leaving a Christmas get together with my wife's family in the Dallas Fort Worth area one night when my wife's young cousin (who lives in BFE, Texas) looks up and says "Where are the stars?" I reply, "That would be what we call light pollution."

@XerxesQados: Claritin 2.4 - Long lasting, non-drowsy, over the counter relief from all your symptoms of WiFi allergies.

My 90's radio time line:

@hawkeye18: My grandpa was a B-17 bombardier in the 15th army air corps. He said the sound is something that he couldn't even describe to someone who didn't experience it. He also said that the way they took off, flew, and landed would give modern aircraft controllers heart attacks.

@stpierreluke: I recently introduced a "cell phone box" into the mix that separates them from their cell phones for the time we're meeting as a group. It's been a learning curve for me, cellphone etiquette means a completely different thing for me than for them. That's a whole other can of worms though.

I think that the technology is making many people more isolated in their communications. I'm a youth director and when I'm meeting with my youth in a group, they will have side conversations through text messaging each other even though they're in the same room. When they do this they effectively cut off opportunities…

I'm beginning to think that I had it easy. I proposed to my wife with my grandmother's engagement ring which went to me after she died. Bonuses all around...I only had to pay to have it sized, it's unique as hell, and it's more rock than I would have ever been able to afford, plus it has the whole family sentimental…

@meatbag_pussrocket: Kinda gives Free Willy a whole new meaning...

@theJML: No joke, in Texas they take the plate thing seriously. I once was pulled over and ticketed because I didn't have a front plate on my new car because the dealer hadn't mounted the bracket for the plate. Never mind that I had the plate sitting on the dash until I could go to the dealer to get the problem fixed.

@daylus: Thank you, and well said. I think the federal government needs to step back and re-evaluate what the founders meant by "enumerated powers".

@m_9:...Yeah, they did it in Superman III.

@jmeltzer: He forgot to include fundamentalists

@T-reG: I do think that in this case the end result justified the means of achieving it. And I hesitate to ascribe the term "just" to any action of warfare (politically/militarily just...maybe, religiously/morally/ethically just...), in this case "necessary" might be a better word to use.

This was running through my mind after seeing the clip.

@T-reG: As crass as it sounds, and as much as it offends our sensibilities as we look back 60 years, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki most likely saved many lives. Many Japanese soldiers fought with no idea of surrender. Over 100,000 Japanese soldiers and 100,000 civilians were killed during the Battle of…

Took this one a few years back in Lubbock. Double exposure of a pump-jack doing its thing.

They're haunting. It puts the peace many of us enjoy into perspective, bringing alive what was done in the past which has brought us to where we are today.

"white iphone delay caused by light leakage"

I live, therefore I cancer.