Color TVs were porkers compared to black-and-white ones, mostly due to the extra leaded glass needed by the higher second-anode (main accelerating) voltage... and Sonys were substantially heavier for size than competitors. Like, a quarter to maybe a third again as heavy. The Trinitron scheme required a more heavily…

The anti-Trump protesters were out in force yesterday!

Yes, some art is supposed to provoke anger. But an action pose of a soldier on horseback or a general in his dress uniform in a dignified pose? Those statues were meant to honor the achievements of “great” men, not to provoke discussion about a controversy. All you have to do is read the plaques, which usually are…

Michael, I always learn from your writing. Thank you for taking the time to teach me, and the world, about Macie. Thank you also for loving Macie. Macie, her children, and her parents did not receive justice in this life, and we all suffered as a result. May Macie’s memory be a blessing. But mostly, may Macie’s memory…

That’s a little too close to my ska/chamber-music fusion group Lady Pythagorean. I’ll take my check now please!

Can confirm Coleman fuel will work. In the 80's we had a Econoline conversion van as the family truckster. Unfortunately, when we bought it, it did not come with AC as standard equipment (it had a TV and a couch that folded into a bed, but no AC...I digress). My Dad decided to have aftermarket AC installed.

I’m waiting for him to do the Mr Creosote bit. 

Wait til Fox discovers what has happened to the lumberjack community after the Supreme Court LGBTQ+ ruling yesterday. 

I think it was “Blessed are the hydroxychloroquine-makers."

My wife grew up dirt poor in Ecuador, and one of her fondest memories is from the one time when her uncle brought home a can of Spam. Her grandmother cooked it up with some rice, and managed to divide the can up well enough that my wife, her 4 siblings, her parents, grandma and uncle all got a slice. We now make sure…

If he grabbed the gun instead of the taser - I could understand. If not a deadly situation, let the person run off and corner them. It happens in rural white America every day.

From what I’ve seen (NBC News had posted the bystander phone footage and some of the security footage, I think):

OK, guy from True Detective.  But the world could also do just as well without you, right?

Traffic violations and defective equipment are dangerous. I know someone who rear ended a car with no brakelights

Imagine if you will, though, a world where a cop sees a broken taillight, and pulls you over to help you fix it. Not to get a chance to snoop around, but just to help you out and make your vehicle safer for you and everyone on the road. It seems like such an alien notion to how our current society runs, and that fact…

This is a terrible idea from a privacy perspective. 

Well, we’re not asking the statue’s makers, are we? I’m not really caring about the opinions of the daughters of the confederacy. Do you?

“If what you care about is broken taillights,” Dr. Shroff jokes, “literally why not just go to neighborhoods with a bag of taillights and give them out.” He’s being facetious, but he has a point. If our stated goal is to make all cars safe, all drivers safe, there are better ways than using cops.

I think if we reform laws and make it so only moving violations could result in your license being taken (and probably not all moving violations) it would make much more sense. Non-violent non-moving municipal violations result in fines that some can’t afford,... so their license gets suspended and technically they…