From what I’ve read California has been trying to reduce its prison populations through shortened sentences, so I’m not stunned she has been recommended for parole several times.  I’m even less stunned that a elected official declined to take that request.  I doubt she’s out before she’s full geriatric, and even then…

Which makes its constant moralizing over U.S. behavior that much more annoying.

Anyone who has kids in school will tell you “less than ideal” is the euphemism of the year. Remote learning is borderline useless on a wide scale.

I didn’t realize she was responsible for Baltimore County public schools.  Maybe start with the people who are?

My friends and I were movie rental machines and somehow were able to get a copy of this. I was in no way prepared for how deranged that movie was going to be in every possible way. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

Should have just said no!

And the Toxic Revenger in Tiny Toon Adventures!

He’s not the type to embellesh (though I’d note that this probably occurred 25 years ago, even if he didn’t tell me the story until later) so I think it’s more laziness among plant management - it simply wasn’t worth the effort to fire him for cause and then battle the union grievance process.

Yep.  The latter.

I’m a massive protagonist of CPO’ing two year-old cars coming off lease.  Let someone else eat that 1/3 (or more) depreciation and handle the original quality issues.

Eh, could be two things. A guy I worked with got his start as a management trainee at GM plant and he said guys would sit in the lot getting high and then walk into work, and there wasn’t a single thing management could do about it. It’s probably less of an issue today with much greater automation.

I bought one of my cars right at the model year turnover and got an insane deal because the manufacturer was offering dealers big incentives, so they could clear their lots and buy more of the new models.  But as for where it came from...yeah, it would pretty much already have to be sitting on some dealer’s lot who…

Another version is “don’t buy a German car in October”

What stuck with me about Everybody Wants Some was my complete surprise once the guys eventually started playing baseball that they’d cast actors who actually knew what the hell they were doing on the diamond. So refreshing compared to other sports movies.

I hadn’t heard about that until now. But regardless, I view his performance as an excellent impression, like maybe Kilmer’s of Jim Morrison in The Doors.

I don’t disagree with any of that, but her fame is a relatively new thing.  She should know better, but I’m not really surprised at her behavior.  Meanwhile the political hypocrisy on display is sickening, and REALLY undercuts the likelihood of compliance.  It tells people that the rules are either overkill or…

The affliction doesn’t seem to center on any particular age group.  There’s a guy halfway down the hall in my office and I can follow every detail of his life.  And it’s a long hall.

Given the current state of San Francisco, they clearly gave up on that effort a long time ago.

Same. The alarming thing isn’t how much pet hair it picks up - we can see that rolling around in tumbleweeds so it’s hardly a surprise - it’s the amount of dust, seemingly no matter how often I run it.

I passed on the first one after reading an excerpt that made my head hurt. And I’m not some literary snob above an airport or beach read.