No. Only the highest level of nicotine available in vapor comes close to the amount in cigarettes. The bottles are labeled, and most people use something like 1/5 of that strength to vape.

There is a synthetic butter flavor used for microwave popcorn that someone apparently once inhaled a ton of and had lung damage as a result. That flavor was at one point used in popcorn-flavored vapor. It’s not anymore.

Da DUN!

“Don’t drive 59 mph in a school zone” is subject to a lot less interpretation than “Give VW your car back and they’ll pay you.”

The judge’s interpretation of what’s required in the settlement carries a lot of weight. Depending on a few things, he could be the one who would decide what is and isn’t okay in the event of a dispute.

That’s part of what’s irritating about guys like Joe. They’re why every warranty and contract has 50,000 lines of silly 9-pt type buried somewhere in them. Why ladders have warnings on them they aren’t flotation devices or whatever.

But does the settlement explicitly require VW to give him an appointment by a certain date? Pay by a certain method? Provide a convenient drop-off location?

Lawyers get paid big bucks to argue close calls in court. Big bucks Joe will be paying if he wants to stand by his radical non-lawyer’s interpretation of the settlement.

I feel like Joe the Stripper is the Streisand here. Had he not decided to take the idea of removing a few things from the car to creative heights and then bragging about it on the internet, he’d be well on his way to his buyback money by now.

I think the dichotomy of “A-bomb or invasion of the home islands” as our two options itself was a red herring. Japan was suing for peace. It had no navy. It was largely out of steel. We had firebombed major cities to cinders. MacArthur, Nimitz, Lemay and other military leaders said the bombs were militarily…

I don’t disagree Stone has a point of view, or that people should draw their conclusions from multiple sources, but if you saw the series you know it’s far from being any kind of sensational or one-sided rant. Most of what’s presented comes with primary source quotes, contemporaneous film clips, and so forth.

Oliver Stone’s American History series on Netflix dives into the question of using the bomb pretty deeply, and it does not look good for Truman, et al.

Is anyone else just not buying the “Russia hacked the election” program being rolled out? No one known to be involved in the *two separate* hacks of the DNC and Podesta says Russia was involved, but somehow MSNBC and Newsweek have leapt right to “Putin personally ordered this, for the purpose of electing Trump, and it…

I thought a lot of this traced back to the Ukraine, where the U.S. backed a government takeover to oust a Putin-friendly regime. Then Putin out-maneuvered us / flat-out took over. Then we sanctioned the hell out of Russia as though all of that had come out of nowhere. Now Syria’s a proxy-war for influence in the…

Good for Tesla for acknowledging this shortcoming and moving to address it.

Yikes. Sorry, Mixon’s the bad guy here. Respect to all the theories about “anything goes when you put your hands on someone,” (it actually doesn’t — could he have shot her?) but nothing in the video justifies smashing her jaw to smithereens. He wasn’t in fear of anything but embarrassment.

(Anybody want a peanut?)

The cranberry sauce recipe on the back of most bags of cranberries is simple, easy to get right, and blows the jellied stuff out of the water. It’s been our required bring along dish at family gatherings since my wife and I started making it.

It’s not a matter of the goodness of VW’s heart. The settlement is reasonable, and there’s every indication VW is doing what it said it would. Don’t like the settlement? Bring your own suit and keep the car or strip the car or whatever you want. Turning in a stripped car and demanding the payout as well looks…