I know, right? As I was driving past the local politburo on my way to the nationalized gas station in my government-built car, I was just thinking about how all those those (largely Jewish) actors and playwrights are responsible for the huge amount of Communism we have in America today.

Kinda sounded like you did. And you definitely equated vastly more rational concerns about GMOs to anti-vax mythology, which is just as flippantly reductive and wrong.

Smart lights were the game-changer for us. Didn’t like the idea of an “always on” mike in the house, but gave in when someone gave us a Dot for Christmas last year. It’s really useful (at least for us) to be able to control and, especially, to dim lights all over the house and porch with your voice or phone.

I mean, it didn’t offend me, but it did seem a weird choice. I wonder if there was a promotional consideration, or if there is some other, more interesting story behind it?

I always did kind of think it was a shit song (America the Beautiful is much better) and it’s not surprise a songwriter of that time period would be racist, but that is pretty shocking.

Funny because Seinfeld is an artist I can’t enjoy anymore based on what I perceive about him as a person. Maybe he had a hard time judging Cosby because he’s a bit of a sexual predator himself, having “dated” a 17-yr-old when he was 39 and famous.

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,…

Please explain how Sanders Dems are like “KKK assholes” fighting the Civil War in more detail. It sounds a little nutty, but I’m sure you had something in mind .. in your comment on a post about a ludicrous attempt to keep Hillary Clinton’s relevance alive with a meme generator, nine months after she lost her last bid…

Whoa. Didn’t take long to get to get to the super- weird pet lie of the Hillary faction that there is somehow something bigoted about the coalition around a Jewish Senator who went to jail fighting for civil rights while Hillary ran her local college Republicans, did it? Strong doublethink, guys!