I’d say it started with the Southern Strategy implemented by Nixon and his cronies, but Newt took it to another level while Limbaugh radicalized the base even further.  This has been a long time coming, and I see no easy way to remove their cancer.

AAA roadside assistance can be a benefit beyond car towing. I was making a 160-mile road trip when my wheel cracked (not tire - the wheel; ain’t no field-repair for that) nine miles from my destination; in Minnesota AAA includes bike service, so I had a “tow” by putting my bike in the back seat of a tow truck and made…

Watching The Lockpicking Lawyer has made me really paranoid about locks, smart locks in particular. Major lock manufacturers can be bad, but there seems to be all sorts of newcomers in the smart lock area, and they can be awful.

It was the finger lakes finally taking shape and coming to grab you.

She failed at copying Tom Petty, so now she’s copying Don Bowman’s “Hello DJ”. Bowman’s 1972 single was a heckuva lot more funny.

I haven’t been this excited to see a movie in a long time. We need more of this style of absurdity coming out.

Ugh - it’s Friday so we’re getting another dump of pointless “how to stream” articles? Please be better than this.

I admit my first thought was, “What the %$*@ is a ham bar?” But then I remembered that I had a Mountain Dew bar as my wedding, so I shut the heck up.

Sadly, Stallon’s movie killed Dredd before it even opened. Even people I knew who were wildly into comic movies said they wouldn’t see it, because they expected something like that 1995 movie.

This is the state that had a Nashville mayor who cheated on his wife named, and I kid you not, Bill Boner.

What’s up with all these “How to stream this pointy-ball game” today. I get yesterday’s how to watch college handegg without cable - clearly I’m not one, but I get that I’m in the extreme minority. But four, and I’d be there’s more to come? Is the AI having a lazy day or something?

Tesla does a whole lot of monitoring with interior cameras; are they assuming that if you enter the vehicle you consent to that? Is Hertz disclosing it?

I do; I have a massive audio collection that wouldn’t fit the largest of iPhones; I also like having local backups and the cable transfer is faster and more reliable than wireless.

I’m ambivalent on the switch to USB C. One one hand, one less cable; on the other, while it’s better than the damnable Mini-USB, it’s still not as easy to plug in as the Lightning. Of course, it’s moot because the change was forced by Europe, but still.

I’ve been called to jury duty twice. Once I reported, sat around for a couple of days and went home. The funny one was Connecticut sending me a summons for jury duty, 2-3 years after I moved away, to my current address (not forwarded).

How much “financial ruin” can he be in, if he’s flying private jets to get a mugshot?

While notable, it’s not like people don’t know what’s in their hoax-in-a-boxes; there are gobs of them for sale on ebay.

Taking AI out of the equation, the app will control devices for cooking, but short of turning them on and off, I don’t see the point, unless they’re also going to start selling their own thermomix-style knockoff.

What could possibly go wrong in Racoon City?

My understanding with ITAR is that yes, it requires US Citizens to work on anything that falls under its umbrella. But is everything SpaceX doing under that umbrella? Either no, which is why they’re being sued, or the lawsuit is a giant mistake.