Show me one old person capable of working that kind of technology. Most of them can’t even send a text message, let alone trigger a squib.

I grew up in a very boring, very safe Massachusetts town. The one thing every teenager in the region knew about our cops was that they were terrible because they were bored (the height of excitement was someone caught shoplifting at the mall). If you were 16-17 behind the wheel of a car, you were getting pulled over…

Yeah, those 8 things struck me as not much more than asking the cops to behave better. You’re not going to get much result out of a list like that if you still let them dress up in full combat gear and play soldier in our streets. It’s like, you can put up a sign in the gym telling people to wipe down the equipment…

Most elected positions on the local level don’t pay a good full-time salary. Far from it. People who serve on school boards aren’t relying on the pay as their primary income. They seek office to serve their community, to forward their own agenda, and/or as a stepping stone to higher office. There is no perfect…

The mayor and a police union rep should be on the board, but they should be offset by representatives from the community who are focused solely on the issue of police oversight and accountability. It’s too important to be part of someone’s multitasking.

Exactly. Stop expecting him to change. He’s not going to. It’s like the Rock’s “powerful message” from the other day where kept asking “Where are you?” to an unspoken president. Misplaced effort. There is nothing that will ever be said to Trump that will make him a better person. He’s rotten. The only hope is to vote…

1. Better cops - Improved screening for mental health and behavioral issues, review of past affiliations (white supremacist groups, for example), and an end to favoritism given to ex-military that automatically moves them to the top of the list.

Would you really want his mouth anywhere near your dick? Double wrap, my friend. Double wrap.

Go back and read what I wrote. I specifically said “many white people.”

I say leave the Confederacy homeless. And treat it as well as we treat any other homeless in this country.

You’d think a company that owns the global beer market could scrape together more than the equivalent of $40k a year for what is essentially a 24-hour/7-days a week job. Works out to be ~$4.63 an hour. I mean, how much free beer are we talking? And can I resell any of it?

Step 5 is so important. The biggest mistake lefties (like me) always make is thinking one election solves the problems for all time. We elected Obama, declared a “post-racial America,” and went back to our disconnected lives. We put more effort into researching craft cocktails than in who’s running for local office. I…

Read the book. It explains the whole thing.

Some of the most successful innovations to the McDonald’s menu have come from franchisees.

A friend of mine once observed “You know how Seinfeld is a show about nothing? Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant about everything.” If the menu has tabs, you know you’re in trouble.

The Sainted and Exalted Founding Fathers envisioned holding office as part of a civic duty—you took a break from running your business to serve your community for a term or two, then returned to your business. Of course, that immediately got corrupted once elected officials realized it’s easier and more lucrative to…

Up where I am, there was a front page headline “Police Join Protestors in March for Racial Justice.” Then you read the article: “When asked what changes people might expect, the local police chief said ‘We do not anticipate changing any of our policies’.”

If I were in office, you’d have to deal with twice-annual Depression Sabbaticals: two separate weeks out of every year where the press has to ask “Where is President O’Mac?” and my PR people have to say “He’s currently under a blanket on a futon in the White House basement, binge watching Mad Men, wondering what the…

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

OWS could’ve been something if they’d had a few less drum circles and a few more strategy planning sessions. I distinctly remember the message being “no leaders” and “no goals.” It was the activist equivalent of those people who followed Forest Gump on his jog across America only to have him lose interest one day and…