I am sorry you had to go through that and I wish the world were a better place. I haven't experienced either, I have walked out on a woman who was threatening violence. I paid the police to escort me back to retrieve my belongings. I am not criticizing when I say that it may have been better for you (and potential future victims) if you had reported it. Your choices are your own and I am in no position to judge. Thus the statement is my own thoughts as to what I would suggest if asked. I don't call the cops when there are issues. I did bring one with me to ensure I was not blamed for anything when I retrieved my belongings but I had to pay his salary to get him to do so. It took a half hour but they demand a full hour minimal so it was $35, nothing major.

You must be a weightlifter. Those goalposts are heavy and difficult to move. I have no dog in the fight but I do see a lack of logic. 15 yard penalty and a loss of the down.

That fence post won't move itself. Nobody implied it was okay.

I will support NOW when I see them outside the courthouse protesting that women get shorter sentences and lighter punishments in the legal system. Until then they are frauds.

Where are you working that you only pound on Java for five hours a day? It's Java, you can not spend three hours a day claiming it is compiling...

Female porn stars make more than male porn stars too. We need some SJWs to get on that.

I am retired. My brother isn't, He is a Master Plumber, not even self-employed, and making $35 an hour - in Maine.

They missed the asterisk and capitalization. They mean *NIX.

A wise person once pointed out, to me, that a mine that spends three million dollars on electricity is actually rightly interested in anything that provides even a one percent increase in efficiency. I think that is applicable here. The percentage may be similar but the overall number is vastly different.

It turns out that DDT was not that bad and is actually legal again for limited use. The whole thing about DDT and bird eggs was based on shoddy data. No, I am not kidding. See Wikipedia if you are curious. I did not believe it at first myself so I was curious.

Information wants to be free.

It is beyond the pale. Were I a few years older I might have been tempted to shoot him before they re-elected him. Fortunately I am not insane. Unfortunately?

I had a Mustang's 5.0L dropped into my 82 245 (not as uncommon as one might think - it is a great sleeper). It was loads of fun. I used to drink and drive and was doing so in the winter one night. The snowbank and ensuing rollover made it no longer fun. I no longer drink. I had to choose between driving and drinking. As I live many miles from anything, well, I drive. In a week I managed to ruin quite a bit. That was my motivation to stop. I probably should have quit in a rehab or a hospital as I had been drunk pretty much constantly for many years. Oh well, I lived. Additionally, about the only thing I'd hit out here would be a moose. Drunk driving is like a local sport here which I really enjoyed when I moved here. I was good at drinking, good at driving, but one day I suddenly was no longer good at doing both. It was an expensive week (technically 8 days).

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Poe, is that you?

That'll keep those damned blacks from breeding! (Partially black here - I jest. Sadly I have to add that as some may think I am serious. Amazon needs to sell sarcasm meters.)