I thought the Riker Maneuver was when the Enterprise used the ram scoops to suck up flammable gases and ignite them behind while being chased? As to ramming, I think Worf attempts to ram a borg cube with his ship in First Contact, and Picard has the Picard Maneuver, which is a precision warp jump within weapons range.…

Because the system isn’t usually good at sharing information with the stranded passengers so people cling to hope that the outage will be brief and they can get on about their travel plans relatively quickly once everything is up and running again. And the thing about ATL is the damn train they use to shuttle people…

Say what you will, but Frappuccinos are somewhere between a milkshake and slurpee in terms of sugar content and flavor profile. A strong appeal from both camps, and no, most of those folks aren’t coffee drinkers. Starbucks will keep churning out the blended monstrosities mainly because the recipe is half ice, so the…

Convenient that this school board deliberation didn’t happen until after the football season was over, though the incident was in the news a month ago. I wonder how long the cops and the school sat on the report, considering this school has apparently been in the OK state championships the last few years? This…

Arizona is an unlicensed open carry state for rifles and handguns. The whole showdown was already an escalation by law enforcement. Hotel floorplans almost always allow for an approach to a room from two different directions, as well as getting officers into rooms above, below and to either side of the suspect’s room.…

Raised Roman Catholic, in my youth I had friends who were Jewish, Jain, Mormon, Lutheran, Jehovah’s Witness, Brethren and various shades of other faiths, and that bent me strongly toward agnosticism. Today, I’m an absolute atheist. Why? Evangelical Christians. There cannot exist a god who could permit or encourage…

It’s a little insane. I’m all for a plausible explanation if it happened randomly here or there, but en masse and regularly is a different story. Plus, a mail carrier has to physically walk up to the address anyway to deliver the package slip. How does it make sense to go through that effort when they could just as…

I would think a ruder (more rude?) thing to do would be to pay the settlement with a bag of loose coinage, maybe all dated 1984, or whatever the hell her album title was.

I was there at the Music Box - Jeff Sessions only wishes he were that handsome. He looks like somebody made a muppet out of an old southern dude, and stuffed it into a suit and tie.

Oh sweet doddering old uncle Beauregard!

I hope this case gets datamined and examined and picked apart and studied into the most minute detail - we have so pitiful few examples of officers not only being charged, but actually convicted and sentenced for their wrongdoing that elements of this case will have to probably be emulated in other prosecutions to…

Wait...did this actually get confirmed by somebody in the Jones campaign? Aside from the subject matter, there’s the weird choice of image, and it’s not even grammatically anything.

Anybody wanna help me with my Kickstarter? I think if we send a tanker truck of crisco and a dump truck full of table salt to the White House, good ole #45's diet will do what Mueller, the Democrats and his own inept cavalcade of imbeciles hasn’t been able to do: END this Presidency already.

No no...that was YOUR point, by lumping communism, socialism (all types??) and leftism (not even sure that’s really a thing) together into the same condemnation. Different things are called different things because: differences, was our point (although saying that in the plural makes me sound like a socialist, I’m…

Ah, always with the conflating of communism, socialism and leftism (and leaving out contextual nuances, like cultural norms, history, economics...). SPOILER ALERT: they’re different ideologies, that’s why they have different names.

I can’t laugh - it’s not funny.

By the by, this is also exactly why the cop in this type of situation needs to be immediately charged and booked and interrogated by an investigator: getting sent home for a few days/weeks (months?) of paid administrative leave is a whole lotta time to concoct some story about how it all went down. (There’s a reason…

Heinous through and through, but the thing that keeps getting me about these cases - and there are too, too many of these cases that fit the same damn profile - is this gun ho cop blowing somebody away in a traffic stop. When did cops in America start channeling Judge Dredd to the point that misdemeanor moving…

The solution is some combination of all of that, plus maybe re-thinking the value of a 9-5, mon-fri “work week” and real estate development that goes UP instead of OUT.

By 2030 battery/fuel cell density will be multi-fold what it is right now...there may even be inductive charging strips under some lanes, car parts will be lighter, the onboard electronics will be more efficient, and most of Southern California will be burnt to a crisp by uncontrollable seasonal wildfires from decades…