I don't know how much credence to give it, but there have rumours that some of these political junkets tend to encourage the frat-party atmosphere. The goal is to quietly catch a politician with theirs pants down so to speak and use it for blackmail later. I'm willing to bet the FBI is investigating just to make sure…

The Digg effect. Sorry, but the term Slashdot effect was in common use in 1998, six years before Digg was launched. Know your memes, you young whippersnapper!

Agreed! We ended up stuck with the minivan as our only alternative when child #2 turned out to be #2 and #3. Nothing else would accommodate two rear-facing car seats and not be pure torture on big brother. He still has to crawl under the car seat on his hands and knees to get to the third row. All SUVs ruled out since…

nice legs.

one of mine is Mitch McConnell. And the other is Rand Paul. Sigh.

their PR people are probably asking themselves the same thing.

My "if I were king of the world" plan is for retractable tire spikes once the light turns red (after a reasonable caution light). Might not generate a lot of revenue, but it would definitely cut down on red light running.

A lot of our oldest surviving retailers got there start as catalog stores. Think JC. Penny's and of course Sears. You could shop their full selection in the catalog and have it shipped to you or pick it up at the counter in their warehouse. Eventually the warehouses added a "retail" area where you could buy returned…

6 year old plus twins. Minivan was our only option. Nothing could accommodate 3 car seats across without inflicting shear torture on the oldest, so we needed a third row, and it needed to be accessible even when a gigantic rear facing car seat was strapped in, so no SUVs where the second row flips forward. And cargo…

we were using something similar as walk-around (costumed characters) at Sea World 10 years ago. Basically we wore this, boxers, and when appropriate, a sports bra under the costume. So yeah, half naked under there, but even with the ice vest you still sweat like a pig. Shifts on high heat days were 15 minutes on, 15…

a lot of places require the parent in order to avoid becoming a free babysitting service. The no n-profit where I work will take you without a parent at age 16.

I used to life guard at a summer camp in the Adirondacks with snapping turtles bigger than a 17" car tire in the water. At least two that had shells alone that were two feet in diameter. They would occasionally swim into our marked swimming area. We got those kids out of the water fast. "hey everybody, mile swim is…

6 months? They're trying to convince people to keep them rear facing until the kid is two these days. My girls are getting flipped the day of their first birthday. And the way the booster seat laws are going these days they'll be in one of those until they get their learner's permit.

maybe he'd prefer a long john.

don't forget those other cousins, the blade-dulling high density fiberboard and it's brown snotty friend Masonite.

on a note completely unrelated to this, I'd like to give everyone another reason to dislike McMansions like the one in the picture. All of those steep roof pitches and complicated valleys are going to be crazy expensive to re-roof once those cheap builder grade shingle start to fail in the next 10 years or so. Not too…

ditto on the chlorinated pool solution. A long day at the pool in the sun was my go to solution for my very frequent cases as a kid. A little diluted bleach, or in a pinch even Windex has worked as well. Strangely however think I've grown more immune in the last few years. I used to get a full body rash just by…

you better go back and rewatch Batman. It's horribly, and completely un intentionally racist.

5 comments and not a single "can it make a house-sized jiffy-pop from space" joke? Young Val Kilmer would be so depressed.

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