I was buying my first Mac at the time, which had very few games in the beginning. Went to an arcade or two for missile defense or somesuch. Never played a single one of these Mario games though.

Sometimes car salesman are just strange, but in a good way. When I was a teenager living in Sacramento back in 1969, I bought an army surplus M151 Mutt, produced by Ford, got it running, fixed it up and hand painted it International Orange with a gloss black windshield frame. When six months later I got bored with it…

If its out there and can be seen, they want it to be seen. More than that is conjecture.

We had the Jeep, then the Mutt, then the Hummer, so this is logically the Hump. But let’s face it, the grunts will call it the same thing they called the others: “pieceocrap.”

Always tickles my fancy to see Ed Heinemann’s Hot Rod still strutting its stuff after all these years. Talk about a classic combat aircraft.

“Our JLTV has been extensively tested and is proven to provide the ballistic protection of a light tank, the underbody protection of an MRAP-class vehicle, and the off-road mobility of a Baja racer” ...all in one vehicle costing about as much as you would pay if you bought the other three separately.Well, exaggeration…

Glad to see Cuomo appreciates New York sex should stay in the back alleys and mayor’s closet, where it belongs.

Did you perform the secret handshake with the hotel clerk? I’m guessing not.

As an atheist, these stories have me convinced that there is a Hell and that restaurant workers live in it.

Army brat here, from 1948 to 1969 when my army sergeant dad returned from Viet Nam. It really is a different life, one that I’ll never regreat having been brought up in. The exposure to different peoples, cultures, languages and geography is unsurpassed for bringing up individuals with a great capacity for learning…

“Helicopter: a collection of life-limited components held together by a maintenance form.”

I get the purpose and agree that people need to be responsible and laws enforced, but I can’t help but think that democracy governs throught the consent of the governed and that police risk losing respect of the people they work for if they have to resort to shoddy tricks to enforce the laws. Whatever happened to…

None of the offered photos (Russian or the author’s) illustrate combat-ready US ordnance. This furor is over poorly copied images of American military training aids. Of course effective propaganda depends upon warping perception and upon repetition of the message, not upon facts, so I get the original images’ utility…

Santorum’s single talent is to make a GOP politician seem to be an effective communicator, when all he is good at is to be a master of misdirection and being perceived as being misunderstood.

Somehow, romaticizing mental illness seems about as bad as ignoring it or pretending it does not exist.

There are foreign cultures where children are not taken out to restaurants or other public places unless they are of an age where they can behave acceptably: to these foreign-raised visitors to the USA, the sight of American families appearing in public places accompanied by out of control screaming kids remains one…

Under optimal conditions and with details cited in the article, three of those puppies could take out an enemy tank battlion (30+ tanks) long before the enemy tanks ever got within range of friendly forces. Quite a force equalizer, in other words.

I’ve lived in San Diego since 1970 and love and welcome SDCC. Don’t know who these “bro’s” are, but working in a downtown bar probably gives the author a fairly skewed idea of who and what San Diego is. Get around a little more, dude, and stop tarring us all with the same tired brush. There’s more to this town than…

I worked in the California criminal court system and early in my career I received a shock when I saw one of the defendants being arraigned on a heroin possession charge was a fellow I had worked with during a summer job. We recognized each other and I could only think, “There but for the grace of God go I.”

With any luck we’ll see Maverick play the crusty captain of an aircraft carrier who gets to watch as his loose-cannon navy pilot son vertically lands his F-35 fighter on the ship’s elevator instead of the flight deck, melting man, machine and elevator scraps into a blazing puddle in the carrier’s bilges.