Oh it’s costing us. We may not see the concrete numbers for a while, but our influence and respect around the world has plummeted in ways that will hurt us for a long, long time.

This is how a certain class of “businessmen” talk about world affairs and economics and culture when they get together. They’re confident they understand everything because they made a killing in toasters or fertilizer or whatever, and they pass around the Fountainhead DVDs and laugh and shake their heads at the silly…

It’s not Brazile’s doing — she’s just trying to be relevant after being caught — wait for it — cheating for Hillary herself.

Student debt (which is bullshit, but doctors and lawyers would file bankruptcy daily if it was dischargeable). Physical harm. Fraud.

Oh bullshit, and bullshit on the rest of the commentators heaving and sweating about Tesla’s supposedly impending collapse, which people have claimed is moments away for what — 10 years now? Jesus, you all sound like Brock Yates mewling that he’d never drive a “golf cart” or whatever until Car and Driver thankfully…

Hi there. Whitey-Mc-my-opinion-is-neither-wanted-nor-needed-here-which-is-totally-fine-by-me, with I think a good-faith inquiry? I never try to comment here, but have come looking here and there to read, as you do. Leave me gray or zap my posts to oblivion if you want, but I have been baffled by this theme since the…

My brand-new Echo Plus is doing pretty well playing “spooky sounds” tonight, but when I ask for “Halloween playlist,” sometimes she plays one, and sometimes she loudly reads some wire story about NASA.

“Oui-hee-hee”

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.

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.