Looking at the picture with this article: It strikes me how in many areas of the country we have now:

1. Got rid of crossing signals that said “WALK” and “DON’T WALK”, presumably as a reasonable accommodation to people who either cannot read or understand English...

It’s a trend in certain inner city/urban areas referred to as “Bike Life” by people on the inside of it. It’s a combination of thrill riding, group culture, and economics, i.e. - It is often easier to afford picking up a used dirt bike or ATV without bothering with some of the legal niceties such as insurance,…

That’s a fair point. Either way it should not have been attempted t be driven by this yutz.

This is beyond stupid. For whatever reason the NYPD feels it necessary to confiscate a motorcycle, the only officers who should be attempting to drive one of them into impound are active motorcycle patrol officers, i.e. - an officer known to have a riding safety foundation, and at the very least will show up to the…

Between Project Farm and Garage 54 ENG, I’m running out of experiments to run on that broken Kia...

It went something like this, I imagine.

Thanks, yes. Seeing this post just piqued some nostalgia in me for that old gizmo, which I thought was pretty nifty at the time.

I used to have this nifty little storage tin that was equipped with a perpetual calendar on the lid, somewhat similar to this one, except covering the period from something like 1983 to 2032. Wish I still had it...

Not a painting, but in the underrated Exorcist III there was a great scene early in the film when George C. Scott starts hearing noises and whispers outside of a study. As Scott starts to walk around, looking for the source of the noises, he enters into a foyer at the back of the shot while, in the foreground, the…

Allahu Backfire.

When mine were younger, I would sit on the bed and start rubbing their backs. This would gradually stimulate them to some degree of wakefulness, after which I would speak quietly to them, defining expectations for what to do when they got out of bed, and then gave them the suggested “buffer” of 5 to 10 minutes.

Another…

Hear hear. My family has simply never been “breakfast people”, and my children are by no means deprived or malnourished for it. During the week we usually just fend for ourselves in the morning, getting by until lunch on little more than a granola bar or a packet of cheese crackers on the way out the door. On weekends…

...and that’s the way we like it.

I have lived in Albuquerque for almost 25 years now, for what it’s worth:

I’m a big fan of Garage 54: It’s all the fun of Clarkson-era Top Gear on only 20 rubles a day.

I’ve got two of these. Can’t recall ever having trouble with pre-installed adware but I’ll take the beer money.

You should have seen the place beforehand.

Pozole is amazing. I usually wind up eating for a week straight worth for lunches because my wife makes at least two gallons of the stuff every year at Christmas time.

If it has to be Smockers, it has to be collusion?

You’re not going to like this answer, but I still don’t see how a younger child having a phone in the event of something like this happening is going to be helpful. If anything, I would argue that it creates an impediment to the child’s chances of surviving such a situation.

Standard response training in an active…