I’m for reasonable gun control, but I could not care less about whether this particular stupid gimmick is banned or not. It’s such a low-percentage application that it just doesn’t seem to matter, albeit this particular creep found a way to use them to increase his mass murder potential.

It always seemed to me like the early hybrids were grudgingly designed by hippie-punchers, trying to design something for people and purposes they held in contempt. The cutesy icons, the overtly un-carlike design cues and handling dynamics. The fact the cars succeeded in spite of all of that speaks volumes.

It’s always been the case that left-leaning groups in the U.S. are treated as a greater threat, while conservative movements are treated gently and respectfully. Homeland Security was all over the Occupy movement, despite the lack of any indication it was violent. FBI constantly infiltrates and provokes from within…

“Breeding is the same as gene-splicing” is not a very scientific argument. It isn’t, and even your most rational scientists will admit as much. They’ll also admit that they don’t have a full understanding of which genes control which traits, so they can and do get unexpected changes. It is therefore not necessarily…

We saw Blade Runner 2049 in a crowded theater last night. There was a particular shot where the front Peugeot logo is pretty apparent, and the people around me (and the people who were me) laughed out loud.

I remember the “smug” Prius episode, and it was one of the last SP episodes I watched. Ridiculing people trying to do something worthwhile because they dare to feel good about it is a pretty shitty take. It was around that time I realized Matt and Trey were libertarians, the most obnoxious (and ironically the most…

Those minimalist 90-era Civic hotrods are a already a classic thing, I’d say. You mentioned the clean looks and the sitting “on” it feeling, which I remember well. And revving a tiny Vtec motor to the moon is a thing of legend, even if that legend involves a certain amount of earned mockery.

I did a brief stint working weekends for a national used-car chain known for their fixed pricing and (ahem) extended warranty program. I enjoyed a lot of the other salespeople, and the cars, and felt I knew enough to be able to help people find the right vehicle.

This weird Louis C.K. vendetta is some Richard-Gere-Hamster-Story-level garbage.

After selling a car privately a few months ago, I understand these types of preemptively angry ads, although I don’t think it helps. I put similar information in the ad, minus the insults. (“not interested in trades, cannot finance the purchase, DL /proof of insurance for test drive”). Didn’t scare off all the scammy…

This is sort of demonstratively untrue. The Democratic Party JUST got its ass kicked running a Presidential candidate who focused on racial and gender divides over economic issues, against a candidate who is maybe the weakest person alive on those issues.

People irrationally opposed to electric vehicles have been leaning on this specious argument for years. I remember the first one that went around relied on nickel batteries being dirty to produce, all hybrids being shipped from Japan, AND an assumption that every Chevy Suburban would be on the road for 200,000 miles,…

When the Terror asked Alexa to “play ominous music,” I thought it wouldn’t trigger our Echo, because the Echo ads on TV never have.

A lot of people, across a lot of demographics, had this reaction to Trump’s election. The spaces I found myself in were full of all kinds of people, most with stricken looks and gritted teeth, whispering urgently in disbelief.

I’d like to know how the city (and the state?) had a set of policy procedures in place where protesters can congregate in armed, armor-wearing groups.

I know First Amendment law, probably better than you know anything in your life. Want to get into it? Please proceed. Go ahead and get “granular” if you think you can, “Bish.”

I don’t think it’s the existence news or media coverage itself that’s the problem. David Duke doesn’t come off as “legitimate” just because he’s on television.

The opinion that you don’t get to murder people whose beliefs you don’t like is really just one thought though.

The way an open democratic society and our First Amendment is supposed to work is that all sides are permitted to speak. There’s no way around that without becoming authoritarian. What’s supposed to happen is that debate reveals the truth, and we move on from there.

Ha! I remember the CD review of the Impala SS said something like “’Lub-lub-lub’ — that’s the sound Impala’s engine makes at 140 mph. This car is nuts.”