Things I realized today
Posted By matt on October 19, 2008
(1) Apparently, folks in New York care about vehicle inspections. I didn't notice that mine had expired back in July, and was pulled over at an inspection checkpoint for it. Given the reactions folks had when I related the tale, I am expecting a several hundred dollar fine. Inspections must be done every year.
Contrast with Rhode Island:
- Inspections last two years on all vehicles less than 10 years old.
- New cars don't even get an inspection sticker for the first two years.
- People regularly drive with an expired inspection sticker – unless the car is a POS, it doesn't matter.
- I've never even heard of folks getting any more than a warning about vehicle inspections.
(2) Family Guy has ceased to be funny. This season, it's just stupid, preachy, and has become a caricature of itself. Reasonable original content, topical reference, recycled story fragment lifted from somewhere else, make a pro-Democrat or anti-Republican joke – lather, rinse, repeat. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind political humor, but acting like there is anything approaching a lick of difference between the two parties is just foolish. Further, directly implying that McCain and Palin support a Nazi agenda (or have an agenda which would be supported by Nazis) just shows the writers to be a bunch of tools.
Oh, and I'm getting tired of the “we went there because of oil” jokes. Tell that to the Somalis and the Serbians. Oh, and if we really wanted blood for oil, wouldn't we just invade Mexico and Venezuela or, hell, even Canada? According to this, they've got more than Iraq (though I believe most of it is in oil sand a shale, leading to expensive extraction costs. However, with no one expecting gasoline to hit $2/gallon ever again, I would expect it to become profitable to develop the technology to extract that oil. Plus, I'd rather give the Canadians my money than the Saudis.
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