Yes, but there is also the Gore Corollary to the Godwin Rule - 1) Climate deniers who mention Al Gore are particularly useless.

There's always cocaine importation. I hear it pays well. And you may already know some clients.

....something about gambling........something about your winnings, sir......

Meh, candy. I don't get it, really. Not my thing. Halloween was wasted on me as a kid.

The flip side of this are the students who take financial aid and then dissapear. On the list of dumb things to do, stealing money from people who know your Social Security number must be on the upper end of the list.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I left Episode I thinking "if they had just let me edit the script." I don't think I've had the response to any movie, but the mistakes were just so obvious, as were many possible solutions.

I'm not 55 yet, but I'm an old, and I have pony tail, and I think those shoes are ridiculous. So I won't be getting a payout from this settlement. Oh well.

Lols.

We didn't mix the stuff in a field. What are we, barbarians?

You wish Dane, you wish.

Rural childhoods are filled with all kinds of entertainment that would qualify as domestic terrorism in Times Square, but not out in some cow pasture.

And where is the Anarchist's Cookbook assigned reading in grade school?

Uh, yeah, four times? Look, I know you want to think that everyone hassled by the cops deserves it (smoke=fire, don't you know) but cops are in fact quite capable of being stupid authoritarian bullies who would much rather torment an innocent than admit a mistake.

A big problem is that Boko Haram is less an organization than a movement. By all means, we should do whatever we can (though not boots on the ground), but there's going to be a certain nailing-Jello-to-the-wall aspect to it.

I understand. And, um, it gets worse. But eventually you get discounts, so, it's not all bad. :)

A friend of mine who never met my father came up to me some time Dad's death and said to me, "You father was a very charismatic man." She was responding to all the things about my Dad that had somehow wound up on her feed as people used his FB page to leave remembrances (as usual, the FB algorithms leave me a little…

Obviously a UT-Austin fan.

Years ago, my neighbors in the next apartment were two girls who owned one album. They played it continuously. Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi.

I was only briefly a waiter, so I only have one story. Not that awesome, but weird. So I walk up to a table with a man and a woman, 50ish. Suddenly the man throws a fit. "No, no, no, I ain't having you as my waiter. We need a different waiter!" Or something to that effect. I just remember he was very belligerent about…