Amen. Some detractors claim they only protect property, but they’re really bad in even that limited capacity. Their reputation and skills are such that only about 1/3 of property crimes are even reported to law enforcement to begin with, and of that rump remainder, they solve fewer than 20%. I’m admittedly bad at…

My first two cars were both ‘84 Camaros. Early 3rd-gen F-Bodies are absolute shitboxes. Run for your life.

Interesting, I will have to attempt it.

Nah, $4.99 for a pound of better mac & cheese than I could make is a deal by any measure.  

Ohhh, yes, quite right, thank you.

Well, just wait a few billion years until the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, no interstellar travel required.  

Oh, also The Field.  Harris was such a dread presence.  

Affliction. Coburn’s performance especially was remarkable.

It’s pretty good, but the big problem for it is that much of their territory overlaps with Heggies, which is objectively superior.

Not everyone contemplating suicide is moved to the choice by depression, sometimes it absolutely does make sense, and having a non-traumatic option for pursuing it is something a truly civilized nation would accept. Should the guy with rapidly advancing Alzheimer’s and no living close family be consigned to living out…

The more premium version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A7 Lite (w/ 4GB memory and 64GB storage) that’s frequently on sale for $130 (including right now at Best Buy) would probably be a smarter purchase for most people, it’s definitely going to have a much longer useful life w/ twice the RAM.  

Well, this is definitely going to make it harder for Seymour Butts, Ivanna Tinkle, Amanda Hugginkiss, Ben Dover and Mike Hock to get reservations...

I’ve owned at least one version of every PlayStation device ever produced and completely agree with this; no one who has been on PS+ for any length of time was likely to find anything compelling in the Essential or Plus tiers. Literally the only thing it has that I wanted is/was Returnal, which I had previously bought…

I just have to say, having lived in cities for many, many years, I have a ton of sympathy for people dealing with egregious noise pollution, from construction to fart cans to bad dog owners with pets exhibiting world-class separation anxiety, it sucks. But man, once I moved into an old house with plaster walls, all of…

Yeah, I was in HS in the first half of the 90s in a very small district (all the graduating classes were well <50; zero traffic lights in the “town” where the schools were situated) and yes, it’s absolutely what people did. When the county you live in has a population density <20/sq. mile, there aren’t many…

Oh, you mean like the desert Southwest which we’re constantly reminded is already teetering on the brink of ecological collapse due to excess demand on water resources as it is?

But what if I actually do have some Grey Poupon?  

Just a fun takeaway line from 2016 Reuters article about the findings of an old but evergreen study:

The main thing to me is the drug charges, and this is coming from a Big League pothead. It’s their land, they get to make their own laws, and she broke them. People are acting like she is the first American arrested overseas on minor possession charges. In reality, thousands of Americans are arrested abroad every…

Oh Biden, ever the temporizing Lord of Half-Measures.