I agree with everything you say in this post and the post after this. However, my point is that this is not simply a “Stupid Americans” issue. Everyone else everywhere else is having this issue, too, really. Merging is the issue everywhere. I assume this is also an issue in Asia. I say “assume” as I usually took a…

They (Germany, at least) also figured out that, in order to fix all the wrecks at those roundabouts, they needed to put (and have put) stop signs at every entry to those roundabouts. (See Germany. Haven’t lived in many of the other countries. The UK may have put stop signs also. Can’t remember.) So, if the people who…

Having read quite a lot of the replies, I am surprised that no one (so far or that I found) was wondering if the lawsuit was or is a purely advertising stunt. I wonder how much advertising revenue all this ruckus is worth for DH. (I truly have no idea, not working in that field.)

I didn’t know there was one in Manassas, VA until a buddy of mine visited and asked to go out to lunch there. Man, they lost money on his appetite. Well, maybe.

That, sir, should be the COTD!

I am all for getting all of those things fixed. I will assume you are working on it with all the work you have put in with those links and the link. I truly wish you good luck in doing so.

Actually, that’s one of the things I can get behind, even if I happen to hate golf (which I do). The people in the US military (and probably most of the better militaries in the world) work an average of a 12-hour day, generally in a dangerous environment (even in peace time and non-war areas), and, if there aren’t…

But what I REALLY want to know is whether he did it on purpose. lol

People somehow get the idea that the military hemorrhages money but every billet I was ever in had the oldest stuff possible. In the 80's, there were still Navy comm. centers full of teletype machines (Model 28's and 35's, with 100 words/minute max, if long-term memory is working today). What a racket. I worked on…

The amazing thing is that more serious stuff does not leak more frequently. People working in the DoD communities just as as egotistical as the rest of us. These communities do a lot to police themselves (administratively) and they have a lot to do. Leaks like the 1992 leak of Greenbriar Resort, WV rarely happen. I…

Well, it could be argued that they won the LeMons. (Biggest LeMon there) lol

Great article and a lot of great replies below. I have lived in Europe (London and Stuttgart for about 3 years each). The level of racism there towards blacks, male or female, seemed to be miniscule compared to that of the USA. I met many blacks who had moved to Europe simply to escape the racism of the USA. That is…

When I turned 50 (um, a few years ago), I joined AARP. When I handed my wife, 8 years my junior, her new AARP card, it was as if I had handed her a poisonous toad. “Oh, hell, no,” doesn’t even come close to her reaction. She took the card, and a magic-marker and wrote on the card, “Trophy Wife!”. And still there…

+100. And +1M to the CosPlady.

Well, all of us “experts” laughed at the idea of a movie about a lame ride at a Disney them park. (“Pirates of the Caribbean”). We shall see what the public thinks. Never over-estimate them or under-estimate the movie industry’s capability to occasionally outdo itself. (Whatever the hell that means...) One good writer…

Man, do you have a suicide wish? Lol. Don’t do this in London in a pub that has seen better times. Or, if you do, then do about 10 shots of something or other to dull the pain in your future. Hope not, but wow.

I would reply that it is quite freaking amazing what comes up in our minds that we are just aghast when it comes spewing out of our mouths or keyboards. (“No! I didn’t really say that out load! Please, no! OMG, I just hit PUBLISH. No!” << my life story.) I would prefer to learn my lessons in a non-cringeworthy…

I always thought having a carrier in the Arabian gulf was just silly. I thought the purpose of a carrier is to be able to stand off at nearly the range of its fighters/bombers and extend our damage “reach”. Also, obviously, no room to maneuver the thing but a carrier’s speed or maneuverability has never been one of…

I usually get a “pre-approved loan” (and check) from my credit union then see if the dealership can do better than the CU. Usually they “can” and I take their resulting offer. So, my question now is how do they do that? I always wonder if I should then go back to my CU and see if they will lower their rates, etc., but…

Not buying that “argument”. Could happen, sure. Sounds like a “gateway argument” which requires a lot of silly stuff to occur. I don’t go to the games to see the managers manage (or the umps ump, to their probable surprise). So, having grown up in an AL park but now rooting for a NL team, I am ok with the DL. Each to…