We had a pinball machine in our house for a long time when I was a kid in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Ours was some sort of western-themed machine, but it was one of the few games I could play with my Dad, who mostly eschewed video games. 

The software the Dallas police uses dispatched officers to a 7-11 because it interpreted the rain as a crime-in-progress.

Yeah, my 1990 Integra was a four-door RS model with an automatic. I would have preferred a manual back then but I didn’t actually get to choose (father bought it for me to go to college). But that thing was pretty spartan otherwise.

I spend the most time in Texas where the number of days an open sunroof is comfortable is somewhat less than 10, in my opinion.

British automotive electronics are not known for their resilience.

Montclair was the name of the toilet in the 1979 cinematic classic ‘Scavenger Hunt.’

There are a bunch of similar (though not entirely identical) taxing districts in my state (Texas) that were set up to build a bunch of infrastructure for some new development that gets paid for by municipal bonds issued by the taxing district and backed by additional taxes put on the eventual residents of that taxing…

Are cops not allowed to sit outside bars and wait to pull people over?

I gotta say. I don’t know how comfortable I am with the idea of a poisoner-release program.

This will work well with the blood bank I’m starting that will get all its blood supply from turnips.

You still have to pay taxes on the stolen money. And wouldn’t get to deduct the fine. But still a pretty good deal.

Unlikely you’d get jail time, but not completely unlikely you’d end up with a criminal charge on your record forever (despite being a misdemeanor).

The sort of thing we see all the time in Texas, but our attorney general is too busy going after trans kids, stealing expensive pens, and committing felony stock fraud to do any kind of consumer protection.

It’s like when that children’s dentist down the street was indicted for sexual assault of a child, why should his business suffer for that when the alleged sexual assault happened away from his practice?

Texas will try to catch up soon. They’re just hampered by the Legislature only being able to meet in regular session in odd-numbered years.

They shoulda called it the Rock Ridge.

I mean, yeah. A few have.

Jabberjaw?

Good for her. Looks like she did great work and sounds like she very much enjoyed doing it overall.

Yeah well. I still get to greatly benefit from being white regardless of whether this person gets prosecuted or not.