I wish I'd seen this comment before I'd posted mine. Well stated.

Well, my logic behind always aiming behind cross-traffic is avoiding the collision in the first place. It's optimizing the likelihood that you and the other vehicle will not be trying to occupy the same point in space at the same time. In this case, given the length of the trailer and the relative speeds of the two…

What I don't understand is why the camera car veers left, toward the direction the trailer truck is moving, instead of staying straight or aiming right, the direction the trailer truck is moving away from.

You're half right. But people don't unilaterally get to decide what is or isn't communication — neither the sender nor the receiver of the signal. If someone's telling you something, you try your best to understand what it is. If you can't understand it, you tell them that and try to get them to express it…

This is the first time I've ever read this column, but this part was fucking brilliant:

I get her wanting to publicly flog him, but why is Deadspin publishing his image and protecting her privacy?

Also:

This article is not about random drunk driving test roadblocks. It's about something that appeared to be one but was something else entirely, where citizens were misled about their rights and officers exercised state authority outside of the bounds of the law.

No wonder I get laid so much. I have, like, the best instincts ever.

She thought she deserved a better score? That's amazing!

There's a lot of privilege associated with unapologetically encroaching someone else's personal boundaries like this. But the victim-blaming that ensued was more perverse. Ultimately, the guest had found a way to turn the party environment hostile. When her last-ditch attempt to make him see the error of his ways…

Jesus. I just read that whole article because I wanted to have airtight certainty that this is not being taken out of context. And it's not.

Would/should this depiction also show the plus size princess suffering an increased risk of serious health problems and dying young? Making clearly bad dietary decisions? Struggling and at a severe disadvantage when engaging in any activity that requires rigorous physical activity?

Ugh, Rowling, you wrote seven goddamn novels to tell this story. Enough with the ex post facto stuff. It's over. It's done. You didn't think/were afraid to write Dumbledore as gay and you aren't happy with a romance subplot you wrote. Fine. But it's time to move on, dude. This shit is for fans to discuss. Go fucking…

Is "underage woman" not an oxymoron? Am I misunderstanding one of the terms?

Green began working at LFI in 1982 as the company's first in-house illustrator and designer. Shortly after beginning a romantic relationship with Frank—"sometime in late 1983 or early 1984"—Green began to move up the corporate ladder. He became an officer of the business in 1988 and was named president and CEO in…

So we agree, your argument was all ass air.

You are not saying anything. Construct an actual argument. Quotes around something no one but you ever said makes you a liar, at best, by the way.

Linguistic ice on my linguistic shoulder... does that mean, don't type anything for a while?

This is a thing here in Japan. If you live in an area where everyone drives (i.e. because there are no trains), you always hear the same words when you order your first drink. "Do you have a driver or a ride home tonight?" And if the answer is no, then they make a note on your tab, and when you ask to pay up they call…