I’ve tried using my own cup in some places. For example, a local movie theater used to sell “Movie cups” that you could refill at a discount. After a few months though, they stopped letting you bring in your own cups, even the ones they sold, citing “health” reasons. It’s funny to think about. But the stereotype of…

I would just the larger canvas bags to grocery shop if I had them. I had a few and did just them until their handles tore. Now, I use them around the house to store things with. I’d get some more but my wallet is rather...empty right now. When I do get plastic bags, I will use a few as trash can liners. But most get…

I agree. Valve is taking the “We’re just the middle man” approach by not taking sides for gamers or developers. “Just because your game has racist content doesn’t mean we won’t take our cut off the top of your sales,” is what Valve is stating here. It’s far easier, and cheaper, AND profitable to use that strategy than…

The cop should have written the depressed lady a ticket for abusing 911. The fine should be $1000.00.

Sometimes, I expect content providers to police themselves. And when they don’t, and should, I lose respect. I thought Valve had standards. “We don’t do this, we won’t post that, etc.” Now, they are saying they won’t adhere to any rule set and just allow everything. I’m not sure they realize what kind of floodgate…

Soooo, he paid for his food, is just standing there, gets told to leave, and as he leaves with everyone else, is attacked OUTSIDE the store. What!? There’s more here. There has to be. But at least the police arrested the lady who hit him for assault.

Every article adds something different. One article did not mention the gun in the man’s pocket was not loaded. Another article did not say the man was in his garage and refused to come out. Another I read didn’t not state that the man was even drunk. There is so much story that is missing here that it’s difficult to…

I understand the EU’s desire to ban “single-use” items. But what is the alternative? Do the places that used to pass out straws now sell you a straw that you can take home and use for other meals? People will probably throw these things away, too. Replace the plastic forks with metal forks? I understand the need to…

This is why you don’t live on an island created by an active volcano.

If only hydrogen fuel was feasible. It’s so limited in use that it’s not even viable.

I was a bit annoyed at the judge for this ruling. Until the article mentioned this:

Barely. The Joker laughs constantly because, to him, EVERYTHING is a joke. Ledger’s laughs seemed forced and were too infrequent. He was too calm, in my opinion, for the absolute psychopath that the is the Joker.

The law calls this “assault.” No matter how much you disagree with someone, you cannot throw things at another person. That’s across the board for everyone.

If she had just jumped alone, I might have sympathized with her situation. Instead, she jumped with, or threw, her own child out the window with her. That, in my mind, makes her a murderer. The fact that she wanted to leave for Spain with the kid and had no intention of returning should have tipped the court’s off…

It didn’t take North long to continue the NRA’s tradition of blaming shooting sprees on everything but the gun. Now, they believe it’s the drugs. Next time, it’ll be the lack of honey bees.

I thought Ledger’s performance of the Joker was too tame. I wouldn’t put it past Joker to light a large pile of money on fire or anything. But I do expect him to laugh. Ledger only laughed at the very end of the movie.

“Bedard grabbed a bathing suit and three dresses—a black one with long sleeves, a lavender frock and a purple dress—and asked to try on the four items. She tried them on, asked about the price of one of the dresses, then laid them on an ottoman and went to leave the store.” This part of the article gives me pause. She…

The thing a lot of people don’t understand about the First Amendment is that you actually can do and say a lot of the things you’re defending. The government cannot stop you. But if your peers object to your statements, or clothing, or whatever, that’s where consequences appear. And if those consequences, say, a…

Of course, one must ask what relevance to the movie’s story is there in knowing what Valkyrie does or does not do.

Interesting. Security for the building where the lawyer rents an office would not allow him to enter. That’s a dangerous move. For residential renters, the landlord has to evict them. I don’t know how business renters fair. But if the guards are in the wrong, that lawyer could sue the frell out of them. That being…