I think “we all” decided long ago that capitalism isn’t some kind of magical natural law that always gets things right. We have anti-price gouging measures, anti-trust laws; rules on market consolidation. Exploitation based on supply and demand is ugly, not some kind of divine right.

I don’t know if anyone remembers, but this is exactly what happened with the S2000 way back when. It wasn’t a cheap car to begin with, but dealers went nuts with markups like these. It soured me a little on the car (which was great, obviously) and Honda at the time. It seemed like Honda was okay with sticking it to…

I got the “truly exceptional” survey the other day after a free dealer first service / oil change and had a similar reaction.

I think Bosch is already “in” as far as the VW suit anyway.

“He’s so new to this”*

“He’s so new to this”*

“He’s so new to this *(and so reflexively crooked)* . . . ”

Yep. Complete with a “waterfall that comes to life.” Being a bit Disney myself, my first thought was that it was really dumb to assume a story about such a thing was made-up.

Any thoughts on why Maher, who clearly does not think of himself as racist or bigoted, think he can “go there” and use the most toxic word in our culture as part of a “joke” about himself?

Did the “climax” “leave you happy” though?

Maybe a silver lining to all of this will be the death of the braindead drumbeat that “America should be run like a business. Trump’s not that unusual as far as the heads of business organizations go.

False equivalence is real, i.e., “liberal bias” comes down to competing conservative views being factually wrong (climate change, trickle down, etc. etc.). Fox spent years building up the idea that it was “fair and balanced” to give equal time and consideration to both reality and conservative / religious fantasy.

I think it was actually. 1989 VTEC vs 1992 VANOS. At the worst, it was one of the earliest successful consumer applications, which would hardly make it less than groundbreaking.

Just intuition, but I think that might be Bear #16.

This is why all those laissez faire arguments about how markets and corporations are rational actors and would never hurt themselves by destroying natural resources are bullshit.

ALL of this, and I’d add that the “Just go to the E-room” fallback is also fiscally magical thinking from our supposedly hardheadedly pragmatic Republican friends.

We might have this all wrong. Maybe it was a homcide triggered when Hernandez called caught himself mean mugging himself in the mirror and couldn’t tolerate that disrespect, even from himself.

This is a terrific piece, worthy of any top-tier political blog.

Not in this case it isn’t. The whole “emergency city manager” suspension of democracy is a relatively recent Republican invention. It’s the concatenation of lot of hideous conservative Republicans’ pet conceits, like

The photo is not far off. Fingerless kayaking gloves. They have waterproof synthetic leather grip pads, but your fingers are free for delicate work and still activate the touchscreen radio.