My work takes me to IAD, DCA, and BWI regularly. As soon as I get off the Beltway in MD, everything is fine and predictable. The BW parkway backs up quickly, yeah, but if I’m on I-97 or US 301 the driving feels like it did when I was in the Tampa Bay Area.

Virginia drivers on I-66 aren’t so bad either — not the best,…

I lived in Houston from January 2002 to July 2003, and spent the last 10 months of that working for a company that had me driving all over the city. I was usually cruising 7-8 mph above the speed limit and still being passed regularly. What I learned, in my compact 4-door sedan, was that the rules of driving in…

PreCheck selection is also randomized. Even with your Known Traveler number entered in properly and flying on a participating airline and selecting your flight well enough in advance to not trigger anything suspicious in the system there is still a chance that you won’t be PreCheck on a flight.

He did but he didn’t.

In “All Good Things...” Data is still alive and well. In “Nemesis”, during one of the scenes where he’s investigating B-4's neural net Data is also backing himself up into B-4. In the tie-in comics succeeding “Nemesis”, it’s revealed that LaForge installed the emotion chip into B-4, and that…

March 2015, I was t-boned by a Nissan Titan wearing a brush guard. The driver was doing somewhere around 70 when he hit my 2011 Lexus IS300 while I was in a median turn-out waiting for traffic to clear. Totaled my IS, landed me in the hospital for a month with most everything on my left side broken, but hey, I’m still…

I moved away from the Space Coast 16 months ago.

The Merritt Island mall was effectively dead. 40% or more of the storefronts inside had no tenants. I’m surprised there’s enough traffic to keep the food court open.

This popped up on one of my TVs this weekend, but not on every show.

Watched OITNB. Never saw anything like it. Watched a few episodes of “The Borgias”, and it didn’t present. Went to catch up on the latest season of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” last night, and at the end of every episode the right 80% of the screen was…

So what would you call a public account that can only be seen by the followers, but to whom responses are fully public? An account that can’t be found by searching on Twitter, but can be found by searching on Google? What about when both of the above scenarios combine?

Is there something more dark than a shadow ban? A…

Shadow banning on Twitter extends beyond political figures, and the attempted explanation doesn’t come close to covering all the scenarios.

Take, for example, an account started in 2010 that has over 7,200 followers, operated by the owner of a website that has been operating equally as long — @MollysDailyKiss.

Only…

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The first time I watched the film, when it faded to black with David and Teddy in the pod and David as asking the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy, I thought that was the end. I was getting up to shut off the DVD and then the “many years later” portion of the film kicked in.

I hated that…

Lisen ... I’m not saying that I would consider paying for this because of the comic tie-in, but I *do* have a 12 year old son who loves everything that has to do with The Flash or Batman, and if this will get him to read more, it’s worth it from a parental perspective to at least give it attention.

But for just the…

I saw this film in theaters and bought the DVD as soon as it came out. While I didn’t know that it was a direct homage to the bedroom comedies of yesteryear, or that Ewan MacGregor was supposed to be Rock Hudson, I did know that it looked and felt like all the TV shows my parents watched in endless repeat on Nick at…

Sessions didn’t hold any sort of position of legal authority in Alabama until 1975.

Alabama schools were desegregated in 1963, when Jeff Sessions was 19.

Tell me more of how he led the crusade for racial equality as a teenager.

Italy won in 2006; didn’t make it out of their group in 2010.
Spain won in 2010; didn’t make it out of their group in 2014.
Germany won in 2014; didn’t make it out of their group in 2018.

That’s enough times for it to be a trend instead of a coincidence, right?

I wasn’t a grilled cheese kinda guy until I started making them for my wife a few years back and took some of the 5 minutes of stuff i learned from 70 million seasons of chopped. Now my standard is this:

* Put a covered shallow pan on low heat. Let it get just hot enough that water will sizzle on it.
* Spread some…

I understand the goal of Joachim Loew is to have his players posses the ball endlessly, and keep looking for “just that right moment” to send a strike through. At several points in the second half I counted 9 German players within 30 yards of Mexico’s goal, but Germany kept reverting to what failed Bayern against Real…

There’s definitely no chance of my buying any in Virginia, where (for reasons I still can’t comprehend a year after moving here from Florida) all liquor can only be sold by stores controlled by the state alcohol board. If I want a decent, independent liquor store I have to go into D.C.

On the upside, German grocery…

Standing wiper here. I got hit by a truck in 2015, have titanium ribs, and have to engage in all sorts of contortions just to reach.

- Left foot on the floor, the other on the toilet seat, leaning forward while arching backward, while twisting to the right, and reaching down from behind with the right hand, and…

I’ve been a Pens fan since the Lemieux-Jagr-Barasso days. I’ve watched a lot of versions of the team have their ups and down, including Fleury lose his edge a bit during his final two years with the Pens, but I don’t think it’s redemption, exactly, that he needs. He came in on a first-round pick, went to back-to-back…

Anybody know what service is picking up “Parts Unknown”? My 12 year old son loves to watch that show for all the different cooking methods and dishes presented, and I don’t want him to lose that access if it can be reasonably helped.