"What the heck?" asked Bill.

"Used to date him years ago," replied the Missus.

"Hmm... " he chuckled, "so if you married him, you be the wife of the owner of a service station."

"No," she replied quickly, "if I married him, he'd be the President of the United States."

Think of a 150 kph collision with two vehicles travelling at 75 kph colliding head-on.

How many once proud and reputable representatives of the news media have gone this route, simply because it's what drives the ratings that fill the advertising coffers?

By and large, the general public will lay out money for the Enquirer and People an order of magnitude more frequently than for a Time, Newsweek, or US News.

Is that a byproduct of getting to bear the /. badge, or an expected consequence of rare posting?

Savages.

Besides, who wouldn't rather be thin driving that Commodore down the strip?

TYFP.

We have so much information to store away, each and every second, that our organic computers need to classify and file away as much input as possible.... Quickly, even if that sacrifices some accuracy.

FWIW, your abhorrence of over-generalization is not without merit, but recognize that it occurs often without malice.

Making things illegal makes them more difficult to to acquire.

A person wishing to be shed of a chemical romance benefits from the difficulty. No?

Wrong as rain, Zeke.

An acquaintance of mine, who has a past relationship with smoking the meth and the cocaine, has given everything up except cigarettes and whiskey.

He would love to give up the cigs, and live as long as possible, healthily enough to enjoy the whiskey.

Harder to Get.

If you're carrying substantial cash back from Vegas: a) Good for you! Most of us do not, hence the billion dollar casinos and the million dollar light bills keeping that outfit lit up at night. b) If you have enough currency on you to make a civil servant drool, do not smoke skunk weed in the car. With a tail light out. And cocaine sequestered in the spare.

I remember laughing at my girlfriend who was yelling at the television during the soaps attempting to warn a female character of some impending treachery. And then, during a random episode of Cops, I heard my mouth say (loudly), "You sir, are an example of someone who should find a vocation in a career other than crime. Forethought and caution are not your forte." Dumbass.

How in the World could you expect the focking manufacturer might know something you don't about their product?

Obviously, this train's driver was confident he could overrule the engineers, architects, and the laws of motion.

He's out of the Bitcoin loop now, so it matters less and less as time passes...

unless you're a taxing entity that wants a cut of his Bit-income.

or don't act surprised when we accommodate our needs from the foreign hordes.

In what an enlightened kleptocracy we would live in if our Congressional pork were squandered

on space exploration and science!