I’m sorry about the painful divorce though. 

That’s pretty much how we did it the first time I got married. The only people really dressed up were the two of us and the four members of the wedding party. And they weren’t extreme. The two ladies wore cream colored cocktail dresses that they could wear anywhere, and the guys chinos and white shirts. I wore…

If I ever get married again (unlikely) it will be a simple ceremony consisting of us and a few friends out in the woods to witness us jump the sword. Literally.

I had a “sigmoidoscopy” back in the 90's without anesthetic. It’s like “half a colonoscopy” but the probe is still about 3 feet long. It was uncomfortable, but not unmanageable. Mostly just like moderate cramps. The comparisons to anal sex are not apt. It isn’t the penetration that is the problem, but negotiating the…

I pretty much agree on all that about Black Widow, except that Florence Pugh is fun to watch.  I look forward to more Yelana in future projects.

I was really excited about it, then saw it today. It was a serious disappointment. My advice: Wait for it to come out on Blu-ray and show up in the cheap bin. The writing is crap.

My brother, as some of you may know, is a piece of work. He has a whole slew of kids (13) of whom only about three still talk to him. He has, for 30 years, used his religion to justify just about everything he wants to do rather than use his religion as a guide to how to live his life. If you’re envisioning right-wing…

“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?”

A CRT is a Cathode Ray Tube, a kind of display device common in the 20th century for televisions and computer monitors. It works on the excitation of a phosphor covered screen by a beam of electrons guided by magnetic fields...

Another bit of evidence that there is no situation for which there is not an appropriate xkcd comic.

You could fill this list with nothing but early Diesel engines. The VW Rabbit Diesel (also used in the Transporter.) The Chevette Diesel. The GM 5.7 Diesel. The Oldsmobile 4.3 Diesel. The GM 6.5L Diesel. The naturally aspirated mechanical injected Ford 7.3L Diesel (Actually, an International engine.) The Ford 6.0L…

My Grandmother bought (without consulting any of us) a Chevy Cobalt 4-door stripper model back in the day. She barely drove it (she had no business buying a new car) and the majority of the miles on it were my Aunt taking her to the doctor’s office occasionally.

The Vulcan 3.0 V6 (which replaced the Cologne family of 2.9 V6 Ford engines) is an excellent engine. Better than the 4.0 IMHO, which is derived from the Cologne family.

I’ve seen similar rigs for less recently, so I’m a border line no deal. It’s probably a fine pickup but that price is about 2k more than I think it’s worth. Also an automatic with the Lima engine is a no-go feature.  With the 5 speed it isn’t a bad little combination, but with the automatic the smaller engine is…

The only thing I’ve ever seen Mira Sorvino in was an episode of House, in which I thought she was very good.  (As far as the script allowed her to be.  It was television after all.)

Pretty much all her costars in Married with Children said the same thing about Christina Applegate, suggesting her intellect was near genius level and that she may have been the smartest person they ever met. Only the best actors/actresses can play dumb effectively. A bad actor is just painful to watch try to act dumb.

How sad it is that your finely cultivated sense of black outrage has blinded you to intelligently composed criticisms of a situation that don’t agree with your prejudices. Not all white people are your enemies, and not all black outrage is justified. It isn’t helpful for black outrage to alienate your allies just for…

Yellowbeard is awesome, although not quite up the the regular standards of they Python crew.  It’s such a shame that it was Graham Chapman’s final movie.  He was just cleaning up his act (alcoholism) and it was his first foray into movies.  Then almost immediately got diagnosed with cancer.  He was only 48 when he…

Really. She’s an idiot who thought she was helping. Firing her isn’t going to solve anything, but keeping her on can be a teaching moment.

Americans do better to adapt British shows rather than remake them. Hence from Fawlty Towers we get Newhart. From Till Death do us Part we get All in the Family. Our record with copying British TV rather than adapting it is mixed. The Office turned out okay, but other tries were utter flops. Both the American versions…