THAT’S GOOD JOURNALISM-ING.

Anyone remember that hub-motor PML-Flightlink Mini Cooper project being shown around a few years back? It had four 160-hp hubs and a gas motor generator in the back. Claimed 640 hp total and 65 mpg overall. Sounded promising. Then they disappeared.

I lamely and predictably nominate a car I owned, the 2002-2006 Acura RSX, aka, the DC5 Integra. The K20A2 engine in my 2002 made 200 hp from 2.0 liters, which at the time was at or near the top of specific output for a mass-produced n/a motor. Forged crank, indestructible timing chain, better torque from the “i-Vtec”…

“your idea that the money laundering is unrelated to whether the Kremlin helped tilt the election (which we KNOW they interfered in), or whether Trump is somehow in a compromised position is....weird.”

Are they though? Because I struggle through Chris Hayes’ show almost every night, and 4/5 he has on old Watergate prosecutors, CIA spooks, and some mouth-breathing NYC prosecutor, all panting about “election interference,” “collusion,” and “impeachment.”

Money laundering is clearly the story. That’s what Manafort actually did. Trump’s kids bragged about Russian investors years ago. And Kushner sure seems to have been furiously shopping a pitch since even before the inauguration. His foreign policy “job” makes no sense — he has zero qualifications. But what a…

The saddest thing about the “Russian collusion” narrative is that it gives Trump too much credit. There is no way Putin made some concrete, demonstrable deal with this idiot. What are MSNBC / CNN gesturing toward at this point — that we’ll uncover some parchment signed in blood between the two of them? Not going to…

Interesting you raise that. I’d put the people captivated by the simplistic, selfish ideologies of Ayn Rand or a fully unregulated free market system into a “half smart” bucket.

I remember the “free market solves everything” guys from undergrad. They tended to be math / science / engineering dudes from upper-middle class backgrounds who read a lot of Ayn Rand & wrote extremely silly letters to the editor of the school paper.

For an avowed non-shill, you sure have a lot of shill-isa talking points. How would you know that

You’re just messing around here, and that’s absolutely fine. Enjoy the weekend.

The pods likely last several days, not one session.

Why would former smokers being trying to quit by vaping? If you’ve already quit, you don’t need to quit.

(remember phlegm, nosebleeds, lung problems, a messed-up brain, and addiction, just to name a handful).

Is there any indication they’re doing an entire pod a day? Looks to me like a teeny tiny device with sky-high nicotine levels, as a trade-off for a smaller device. I would think the idea would be to use it much less frequently.

It leaves open the possibility of smokers who want to switch to vaping, i.e., the best rationale for vaping.

Nice looking vehicle. I’ll never understand how Americans have been persuaded to buy fleets of wasteful, silly looking mini-trucks because they’re somehow “cooler” than wagons or minivans that work better as actual vehicles.

This is all good discussion, but every time I see the angle of “The response to the recent tragedy doesn’t sufficiently address x population’s concerns on a related problem as a distinct issue,” I wonder if we aren’t shooting ourselves in the foot by not emphasizing the OVERLAPPING American cultural malfunctions like…

“wishful thinking, or some denial of some horrible reality”

This is a fine piece of work. I hope it gets out there and does some public good. Well done.