A beverage with more than 0.5 percent alcohol is considered an “alcoholic beverage” and falls under the state liquor code.

My mother, in one of her weirder fads, got the culture starter thingy for kombucha when I was in high school. She kept it in a bucket in our laundry and she named the resulting snot slime monster 'Lionel'. Lionel lasted in his bucket for ages, my mother trying to get us to drink this fucking revolting tea ‘for our…

It’s not hard just distract them when they start getting whiny or over the top. Flying from London to Singapore I had a kid 4-5, start to be a pain behind me when I became apparent his mum was going to do nothing, I folded a paper crane with flapping wings out of the in flight magazine and started flapping it around…

My son travelled across the US and throughout Aus/NZ from age 9 months to 5 yrs (and a bit in the US in the last two years — mostly by car). Trips range from 1 hr to 17 hrs (with 9 hr layovers).

I’ve worked on airplanes for almost 15 years now. I’ve worked at the airlines — believe me people — BELIEVE ME — do not let your kid lay on that floor. Just don’t. I wish I had a picture of opened floorboards and carpet on these jets. The sheer amount of human hair and unknown sticky substance is quite horrifying. The…

Eh. Most of the presidents we consider to be “great” governed during horrible times to live in. No one really knows how George H.W. Bush would have handled a civil war or massive depression. I’ll take mediocre presidencies if we get relative amounts of peace and prosperity.

Jimmy Carter also took part in the repair of a malfunctioning nuclear reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, a task which involved putting on protective gear and being lowered into the reactor itself to take it apart minutes at a time.

“The problem here, of course, is that praising Obama or Jimmy Carter is off limits, Clinton likewise and by a factor of a million...”

Or acted like this was the first they’d heard of Reagan’s death. “I said LIVING president.” “Are you saying Reagan isn’t...he’s no longer...oh God, WHY? Why, God, whyyyyyyyy? Why must the good ones always be taken from us so young? He was too BEAUTIFUL to die! If only I had died in his stead!” Then you start rending…

A much more fun exercise would be to wait for the Reagan answer and then ask them to name Reagan policies.

How to make a teabagger’s head asplode in flames: Remind him that Jimmy Carter was a born-again family-values conservative Christian with seven years service in the USN aboard a nuclear submarine and graduate work in nuclear physics.

According to some study my mom told me about (that she probably made up), Carter and Truman were the only 20th century presidents who didn’t cheat on their wives. What a mensch!

If they’d had some notice, each could have cultivated a misty farway look, “Ronald Reagan will always be alive for me.” Or for Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, “Jefferson Davis will always be alive for me.”

Worked for who? He didn’t get a second term.

I wish Jeb was around so they could have made him choose between his dad and his brother.

AND HE’S DISCOVERED THE SECRET TO ETERNAL LIFE!

Jimmy Carter, duh, I love peanuts and farming

They still haven’t forgiven him for that one. The fires of rage still burn white-hot in the Norquist anti-tax wing.

I would have gone with Ben Franklin. Invented bifocals and got mad tail.

They can’t say Bush 1 either because he raised taxes and it worked out just fine. Don’t need to be reminding people of that little disaster.