This was very well written and engaging. I could hear this being read on NPR by some deep voiced, folksy sounding announcer.

I’d be throwing down a spike strip and boarding that bastard with a cutlass and an eyepatch.

The wypipo are out in full force today.

Did you read the posters above describing the concept of people coming into a historic neighborhood with long-established, cultural norms, and then trying to change those norms to meet their preferences? Race/gentrification/ social issues have everything to do with it. Colonizers/Columbusers/Gentrifiers frequently…

I still have them all....

You’re one of the few people who “gets it”. And by “it” I mean strange looks from others.

If you believe in God and think that God made Man in His image, why wouldn’t you believe that God gave Man the intelligence to heal? Why don’t you see medicine as God answering prayers to heal? I mean, I don’t see these same people praying to God when their cars need an oil change.

Can’t murder me if I kill myself first.

As I have written before, my daughter died when she was five in 2011, two months after being diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. There is no cure for her type of tumor - DIPG - and current treatments do little more than extend life for a few months.

Now if we could only apply this to sporting/concert event ticket sales.

There’s the Eddie Izzard method. React as anyone else would when someone deliberately inflicts pain on them. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! You bastard! I hope you die in a car crash.”

This should be banned period, if you do this to your truck on purpose you are a piece of fucking garbage, no exceptions you just are. If you defend people who do this you are also a piece of garbage.

A government scientist working for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who was also the reigning Miss District of Columbia, was crowned Miss USA last night.

Good points! Perhaps we need something easily identifiable for the good ones.

Which Starbucks do you work at, since you are a “real actor”?

Meh, tactically low on the totem pole. That stage of the war, you’d never have armor running off like that without some infantry support. It was more the other way around. You might have infantry going around by their lonesome but very rarely armor, especially US armor which wasn’t the best. Not to say it couldn’t…