Here in the DC suburbs* we have both a Lamborghini and a Ferrari dealer. Some of these cars are capable of going over 200 mph. In DC.

I always wipe my electronics and then donate them to a local thrift shop that supports a woman’s shelter. I get rid of my old stuff, and help increase the amount of goodness in the world.

Speaking of the Smithsonian, it’s a truly wonderful museum, actually a group of museums. My favorites are the Museum of American History (Fonzie’s leather jacket) and the Air and Space Museum (Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, touch a moon rock), both on the mall downtown. There’s also the very large Air and Space…

In 1953 when I turned 4 (yes, I’m really that old) my folks threw me a cowboy-themed party complete with hats, toy gun belts and ponys. My big present was a battery-powered space ray gun and a space helmet. It was the greatest birthday ever.

But do you have a flag? You need a flag.

Thanks. I’m a college professor, and a compulsive explainer.

“...most affordable noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones we’ve ever seen...”

“...most affordable noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones we’ve ever seen...”

Just so we’re all on the same page here, $0.30/gal in 1959 was like $2.61/gal today, about the average price for unleaded. The real price of regular at the pump reached an all-time low in the late ‘90s, and was very near this low again in 2016. Gas was at its most expensive in the 1910s.

Fun fact: In the early 1960s the Army built a city in the northwest Greenland, under the ice. It was a prototype for under-ice missile launchers, and was powered by a portable nuclear power plant; the entire reactor/generator came in a box. The project was abandoned when the ice proved insufficiently stable.

Hmm... not many good alien bands. Unless Jimi Hendrix was an alien... hey, that would explain a lot! And maybe Keith Richards.

Yeah, I’ll just leave this right here. And by the way, on February 9, 1964 half the population of the US watched the Beatles on live TV. Half. I was there.

“...has shaved his signature dreadlocks.”

The leather jacket was a big issue. At first the network wouldn’t let him wear leather because they thought it made him look like a hood; they had him wearing a tan fabric jacket, something like a London Fog. The producers argued that the leather jacket was safety gear, so the network relented, allowing the jacket in…

Reader’s guide for young people: Fonzie was originally a minor recurring character in Happy Days. However, Winkler’s portrayal was so compelling that he literally stole the show. By the third season was a major character, and eventually Ron Howard left the show as he was no longer the star; it became in essence The…

Fun fact: Fonzie’s iconic hair-combing scene was an ad lib. His contract stipulated that he would never comb his hair on screen; he thought it was trite and over-done. In an early episode the director told him to do it anyway, so Winkler improvised. The result was pure Fonzie.

“,,, freakin’ tired and thinking maybe it is time to just stop...”

“Rocks” from Look Who’s Talking Now, voiced by Danny DeVito.

Here we go again... Amelia was at best a mediocre pilot more interested in endorsements than aviation. She crashed her Electra on takeoff on her first around-the-world attempt simply due to lack of flying skill, and then left New Guinea without a trailing wire antenna because she thought flying with one was too much…

No. Fred said that as far as he knew his was the only surviving copy. This was a while back; it was a 16 mm film shown on a projector.