Thanks for the tip- I’m planning a couple of trips to North Africa, and with any luck, you’ve just taken care of my packing!

And why in Heck’s name, does are criminal justice system give an someone who is an unarmed pot farmer a longer jail term than a person with an illegal gun?

Why are you inserting the race of the suspected shooters into the discussion?

What does the skin tone of the shooter have to do with this?

Based on the tone of the post, it seems as though the shooter was almost certainly drunk.

Sadly, it’s also because so few drunk drivers get caught. I seem to recall from a Freakanomics podcast that the average chronic drink driver to drive back and forth across the U.S. five times, sipping beer all the while, before they are actually pulled over.

Sorry, Jinni, but taking photos of license plates is now standard. Every federal highway and interstate does it, and the vast majority of town and cities in the USA have take grant money to install photo machines along access points.

Reminds me my days driving for Big Brown. I had to call my center about once every six weeks and report package thieves following me in pickup trucks. Some of the neighborhoods I delivered to were seriously skeezy - they made bad neighborhoods I saw when I went to Tijuana look like a resort.

While I suspect that Hotz’s car needs a little more work before it’s ready for Prime Time, his DIY moding the car to run on a joystick has immediate application for disabled drivers who need different controls to operate a car than the standard.

I exploited a negative-reinforcement opportunity to teach my kitty-boy to stay off the counters.

If you plan on using Zappos adoption program, be aware that most shelters require that you present a deed, mortgage or written permission of your landlord to adopt. This helps prevent adoptions by people who have no legal place to house the animal.

Oh, I agree with you Howard. I suppose the issue is what we as a society judge to be the “stupidest moments.” Sadly, I think a lot of these kids have plenty of time - like young Julius - to come up with new highs in “stupidest moments.”

Or we might have a generation that finally manages to overcome our hangups and prudish attitudes about sex because everyone will have a sex photo somewhere.

Sadly, not true. Collections of helicopter parents and Bible thumpers have succeeded in creating a hodgepodge of state laws that attempt to repress teen sexuality.

In my day, when I walked to school uphill both ways, some of the high-schoolers traded Polaroids, for Heck’s sake.

The law makes specific exception for Govt. employees, cops and public areas

Not a problem - by the time they get the mass-production beef figured out, they’ll have algae creating beef marrow as a waste product.

Sadly, women in the military have to worry a lot more about being raped by their fellow U.S. soldiers than by the enemy.

When I was in the military, there were male and female DI. The rule was that one DI had to be of the same gender as the company they were training, but everyone else was assigned irrelevant of gender.

And many kinds of hairstyles that would accommodate long hair, while still keeping it neat and out of the way during training, were banned when I was in service. Ponytails for example, were banned.