Makes sense. Less funny now though.

Does it make it more funny that part of the reason for the ruling was that "Bush and Cheney did it"? (i.e. swore on TV)

I'm with Jesse--not hating Bob, just noting that more bon is a good thing.

The pop culture blind spot article was fun, except for the guy who's never seen Citizen Kane. Not that there's anything wrong with not having seen it, but if you haven't seen it you don't get to run around calling it the most overrated movie of all time. His entire little essay is so smug and snide and self-congratulatory that it makes me want to sit down right now and watch CK twice just to spite him.

So far my rule of 8-mph-above-the-speed-limit has let me avoid any speeding tickets. IIRC, it's just at the edge of the margin of error on the radar detectors, so if the cop records you at 69 in a 65 zone, it's legally arguable that the detector was off.

Also, if you calmly tootle along at speed-limit-plus-8 mph, shoals of faster drivers will pass you leaving you with nice stretches of open road.

I'm tired and hungry. Please to be making me a yummy dinner, then, while I'm resting in a comfy chair, please get my children to bed, and then please be preparing an oh-so-warm chocolate-y dessert. For me. Please. Thanks.

So far my rule of 8-mph-above-the-speed-limit has let me avoid any speeding tickets.

For years, I've used the 10-mph-above-the-limit rule. But when driving a car without cruise control, sometimes I go down to 8 to allow for fluctuations in speed.

I have gotten a ticket once for going 8 mph over the limit. It was at night, and there were no other cars in the area. I was violating my "don't cruise in the left lane" rule because the pavement on the right lane was all rough (the top layer had been stripped off).

Does it make it more funny that part of the reason for the ruling was that "Bush and Cheney did it"? (i.e. swore on TV)

And @@ but Bush and Cheney have that effect on me a lot.

There was a ruling that networks can't get fined by the FCC for spontaneous utterances like that. I'm not sure about cable channels, but I assume that it would be the same.

didn't it come about after the FCC tried to fine CNN when they were doing a live shot and an rocket came in and exploded right behind the interview. The soldier that the reporter was interviewing ducked and said "shit!" The FCC tried to fine CNN for that.

I do a lot of highway and interstate driving, for someone who lives ten minutes from work, and I've pretty much always used those same not-ticket-getting rules. Seems to work. The last time I got a speeding ticket was four years ago, when I was doing 74 in a 35 zone, and I couldn't really be upset at that one! Hey, I was in the last 15 minutes of a 7-hour drive and I really wanted to get where I was going.

I knew I should have split up that quote to make CLEAR which parts I was having which reaction to!

Let it be known that I am a major b/B shipper.

I think it's sort of like sow-DA-jee.

A little late, but this is exactly how I would pronounce saudade. It is an awesome word - and it's exactly how I feel about Brazil and my friends there.