Escaping a rapidly-sinking helicopter after crashing is a frightening proposition enough even with a standard lap belt alone, but from a 5-point harness in frigid river water is enough to make the average passenger puke up a pancreas in fear. These kinds of escapes are only practiced by astronauts, SEALs and Coast…

I am white, 62 years old and have lived in NJ, VA, MD, DC, FL, MN, ME, MA and PA (born in Philadelphia). I’ve been Democratic almost all of my life until recently (now an Independent/never Trump or Hillary). I also own a few guns and believe in the right to own them by anyone except those with violent and extreme…

What is the power to weight ratio of each vehicle? That is likely going to explain the result.

Yes, I believe in extraterrestrial life and that they regularly visit our planet. This belief is not based on unproven claims, but on a real life experience that happened in Florida when I and a couple of college buddies were watching the night launch of Apollo 17.

The porn I often see online involves violent gagging deep-throat “sex” that the females initiate without requiring the male actor doing anything forceful. That kind of crap turns me off completely. I don’t know whether the directors/producers think this kind of action is in-demand, but I’m thinking that must be the…

I’ve always been biased against Volvos because their drivers seem to be oblivious of other drivers on the road - detached from reality as it was, given they are cocooned safely inside their personal safety vehicle. My cousin owns a European vehicle body shop and he tells me that Volvo drivers are more collision-prone.

Growing up with a ‘69 Mach I as my first car, I never had to apply a hammer to my starter. I did have to replace a failed starter on the side of the road once, but American V8s just didn’t need to be abused like today’s POS cars. I do know, because I worked as a mechanic back then in the late ‘60s & ‘70s.

I don’t remember this being in the version of Hancock that I saw.

Are all of your posts filled with spoilers w/o any warnings? I’m not going to retroactively check, since this would presumably result in further plots being spoiled if I’m correct, so please - as a curtesy this one time - tell us whether you ascribe to the “no spoilers” approach, which is pretty much SOP in your…

Please don’t take this too far, for our “open and free” society will soon be auto-scrutinized by FaceBook text-recognition apps to identify anti-social and vigilante statements to rationalize suspension of authors’ constitutional rights with 24x7 surveillance, psychological exams resulting in seizure of firearms and…

It is truly unfortunate that the gun control fanatics can only put forward legislation that calls for absolute bans on weapons for all persons, rather than concentrating on those members of society that actually comprise the threat. As demonstrated with tragic results, the FBI admitted that they ignored…

And now let fly the dogs of presidential pardons for them all, lest they testify against Trump as the one who repeatedly harried everyone to try and open up potential avenues of enterprise-wide deals and profit-making.

You should know, you trolling hypocrite.

Wow. Leigh, your post is shamelessly transparent in regurgitating the failed strategy of Watts’ organization, which has a “ban all guns” theology rather than recommending achievable goals that address violence in our society, which comprises the reasons why people turn antisocial and become dangerous.

UPDATE: Parkland School Shooter Breathed the Same Air as His Victims

Why does Melania need help raising Barron? It isn’t like she has a FT job. Didn’t she do alright on her own before she moved into the White House?

Your anti-gun/NRA diatribes are not helping because you are pushing a no-compromise solution that calls for a ban on ALL guns, and condemning the NRA for supporting what our country has already conceived of, and wholly accepted as constitutionally-guaranteed rights. Our “gun problem” is actually a problem of our…

I believe the more appropriate label for the feelings expressed here are better expressed as the difference between “unconditional acceptance”- or not.

Bullshit. I use the Kindle app on my MacBook Pro and books download automatically.