I used to live in North Bonneville and worked in Hood River. I can confirm this statement categorically.

Exactly!  Or “Sport Utility Vehicles.”  Neither sporty, nor very utilitarian.

I was a member of REI back in the day when it actually was about real outdoors equipment. Today it’s more about outdoors themed fashion apparel than about real outdoors equipment. Or at least it was the last time I was in one a couple decades ago. The one near me closed up shop and reopened in downtown Portland nearer…

Back in the day (early 70's) Marine drive was how we in Vancouver got to the Portland International Airport. It was the fast way, anyway. My Uncle was an air traffic controller back then in Atlanta, and he used to fly in all the time and we’d go pick him up. (Air Traffic Controllers back then could fly for free if…

Portland Oregon.

Apparently they might be mistaken.

I will say that the three principals, John Cho, Daniella Pineda, and Mustafa Shakir, did what the could with the crappy writing and dialog. All three of them would have been fine in a well scripted adaptation.

My dude, if you watched some of the anime, then you are sadly deprive of it. You have to watch the whole thing. There are a few episodes you can skip, but it is a whole story that needs to be consumed. In fact there are three or even four complete concurrent stories being told. (Ed’s story is not particularly well…

New Shepard is a “space ship” in the same way that the car I drive to the beach is a “submarine.”

Steve Wilhite: “Hi! I just created this new graphics container, and I call it “The Graphical Interchange Format,” or .gif for short. You pronounce it ‘Jiff’!”

Remember those numbers are not particularly reliable since most law enforcement organizations are reluctant to and in some case are legally prohibited from releasing statistics on gun violence or deaths. The Brady center relies mostly on news organizations and what few LEOs that will cooperate with them.  Hence the…

I agree. Use of Weapons is arguably his best novel, and it was technically his first novel. It was mostly written back in the early 70's, and as complex as it now is, it was even more complex back then. Supposedly it was impossible to follow unless you could think in six dimensions (which I think is mostly a bit of…

Please spell it right with a “J” “MarjieQ.”

“Congresscritter.”

Look up “Whackadoodle” on Wikipedia and see a photo of MTG.

I used to be heavily into the air-cooled VW community (Those vans are even more stupidly priced than this is these days.) One of the guys I know through that had a really nice pop-top camper-bus that he’d tricked out. The whole nine yards, including heavily tinted windows.

This is not a “moped” because it has no peddles. It’s not even a scooter because it’s not a step-through. It’s just a weirdo small motorcycle like what was common in Europe at the time, and yeah I have heard of them before.

I am making no assumptions about this particular mother, or this particular situation. I was making a comment on the attitude of the commentators here. They’re all making the same assumption about people with autism, regardless of this situation.

Ah yes. The mechanical thing designed specifically for pussies too afraid to learn how to ride a motorcycle to pretend they are riding a motorcycle. All the disadvantages of a motorcycle without the advantages of a motorcycle.

I see a lot of “autism is no excuse!” comments on here, and a lot of parental blame. These people have obviously never been exposed to someone with autism, particularly some of the more severe forms.  I know autism is a common excuse that terrible people use for their actions, but the reason this is common is because…