I'm sure the problem with selling their SWAT toys were one of the reasons for the federal surplus program: to who? Blackwater? Israel? The Ukraine? Drug Cartels? There isn't a big market, especially one that wouldn't also involve foreign policy. Really, the only thing that can be done with them is melt them down.

Possibly because this post existed before the return of the greys, all of the comments are showing as pending. It also looks like they haven't fixed the bug that is keeping us from recommending a comment out of pending, so I'm trying a reply to see if that works.

I'm sure there are other reasons, not the cost of living, which factor into why the majority of Ferguson PD live in other communities, I was just pointing out that not having to live in the community is a fairly normal thing. Maybe because it's affordable, Ferguson might want to require it, but first they're going to…

Well, yeah. There are a lot of racist cops. I was just pointing out that police not living in the community they serve is a fairly normal thing, except where it's required for the job.

A lot of police officers in other communities around the country don't live in the cities they serve because they can't afford it. That may not be the case for Ferguson, but cops, teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers, it's often the case that they don't live where they work.

Me too.

You or anyone is free to stand in the middle of a field in a lightning storm, if they wish.

You or anyone is free to stand in the middle of a field in a lightning storm, if they wish.

While I don't have a problem with the pending system, I hope you'll consider incentivizing or certainly encouraging the bloggers in your employ to follow people on behalf of the blog. What was frustrating about it before and I assume one of the reasons it was ended was that some blogs weren't following new people, so…

I linked to all three of the local newscast's late reports from the night of the shooting, all of which contain witness statements and not one of them mention a "scuffle".

According to the factsheet linked from the hotel in the third spot, it's been in the same family for 46 generations, while a profile of the oldest (also a hotel) says it has been in the same family for 52. I can't imagine the pressure to continue the tradition their young members must feel.

It was a graphical BBS that existed prior to html. They were a little slow in adding internet access, most of their competitors were earlier and by the time they were ready, there were already a smattering of independent ISPs spread over the country.

I will try that. Thanks.

Among other uses, we put garbanzos in salad. Because you can't really use a whole can in four side salads, we put the rest in the fridge and my youngest eats them as a TV-watching snack.

Now I'm going to have to watch the series again, maybe this weekend.
Thanks for the excerpt. If the other chapters are anything like this, it'll be a good read.

I see this post has already received hundreds of comments, a lot of which are focused on the gay leader issue from the headline, but if I could take a minute to say something about the rest of the post and my family's experience with the Cub Scouts portion of Boy Scouts in general.

My understanding is that under Girl Scout rules, men can be co-leaders, but it has to be with an unrelated woman. I've known of at least one case where they worked around the rule by naming the district leader as the troop leader, but it was one of the fathers who ran all of the meetings and the troop. Of course Girl…

Something odd about the Two and Half Men storyline is that last season they were offered a wedding and if it had been real life and if they had rejected it, the situation would have created turmoil, but instead the show just went to credit and it was never mentioned again.

Hurricanes generally sow an uptick in the birth rate for nine months down the road. Even if the power doesn't go out, you're still stuck in the house for a few hours. There isn't a lot else to do.

FYI, PSA: It seems that the entire internet can't watch Spaceballs at the same time. It's just producing an error message for me. I'll have to try again later. Hopefully it will work.