All the talk about “bring back the buttons” forgets about the horrors of ages past when the entire dash was a series of black plastic chicklet sized buttons that had the symbols wear off within a week of purchase. Does this button turn up the radio, turn on the cruise control , or turn off the traction control? Only…

I think its more that if I were going to be nude I wouldn’t want to be nude on a nasty cruise ship since they are germ factories from all of the previous cruises. 

The real problem is the endless string of Titanic “I’m the king of the world!” reenactments.

I’m no nudist, but my first thought was “how are the people being naked going to make a communal space like a cruise ship any more gross than it already is?”

“It shows the importance of wearing your seatbelt.” Well, OK, but I’m thinking it also shows the importance of not handing Porsches to teenagers, ‘cept maybe a 912 or something.

This is a good demonstration of why the US should publish separate metrics for passenger vehicle safety: a death total for belted and unbelted, and we should only care about the belted. Data shows seatbelt use is about 90%, and yet unbelted people account for about 50% of deaths. Those 50% should be removed from the…

I’m amazed they survived, cars have come along way. Wish I could say the same for kids

You can break laws made by man, unless that man is Isaac Newton.

About a year after 9/11, I accidentally left a pocket knife in my carry-on when I packed. TSA never even noticed.

Maybe 5 years after 9/11, I was listening to a podcast or radio show or a radio show that is also available as a podcast (I forget which), and one of the guests called TSA security theater.  He described it as like Kabuki.  There are elaborate costumes, ritualized movements, and every once in a while someone yells. …

It’s like COVID. No one wants to be the entity that was perceived as not doing enough. The shoe bomber guy, one person and unsuccessful at that, created this shoe-off nonsense. Buy hey, can’t be seen as not going the extra, extra mile.

Now you just have to knock the bolts loose from the plug door and you can yeet the attackers out the opening in your Boeing. 

In the past, the advice to passengers in a hijacking scenario was to sit tight and comply with the hijackers’ instructions. By and large, until 9/11, that advice had worked. Some hijackings had resulted in the deaths of a few passengers but the overwhelming majority of aircraft passengers had survived hijacking…

When I flew a lot in 2004, I would be in one airport that didn’t make me take my shoes off, then, on my return flight that airport would. I always said, if it’s a valid procedure, then it should be done everywhere.

Well, only problem with that is that he would still be living. He could have a stroke and be reduced to a vegetable with a bib to catch his drool. They could prop him up in front of a podium and his supporters would still worship him like the 2nd coming of Christ. 

Yes of course especially when it’s been very successful so far. What the hell else do you want them to do? Go back to relying on Russia? Sometimes you people need to actually think before you spew complete dumbass BS.

This lady isn’t being a good neigh-bor.

More likely that a lawmaker made an out for his drunken thief of a teenage son who had no intentions of keeping that Charger he “borrowed” from the neighbors.

Okay I stole the car for a joyride, somebody else stole it from me and sold it to a chop shop, so misdemeanor please

If the Catholics & Evangelicals have taught us anything, it’s to keep a close eye on the most pious among us...