I was the kid who bought your car, look what I did to it!

The Jefferson Davis memorial monuments and statues all glorify the man and his goals, among them being the continued enslavement of an entire race of people. Celebrating him is honoring a traitor to this nation and validating his vile misunderstanding of humanity.

I have yet to see a US WWII monument dedicated to the death of Japanese people. There are plenty of war monuments dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died in those wars, however. If you can’t tell the difference, then one of us is definitely being intentionally obtuse.

Moving an artifact from a public display to a museum does not erase history.

It’s been a while since I perused their pages, but you are absolutely right about the Trump/Cruz infighting. Here’s one delightful post that is getting all sorts of attention this morning:

The USPS only runs losses because Congress forces them to front-load retirement and disability benefits, unlike any other similar entity, public or private. Operationally, the USPS turns a consistent profit even though they have a postage rate increase ceiling mandate AND first class mail has been steadily declining…

One great tip I got from a lactation consultant/baby whisperer is that when your baby is crying in a car seat and you are carrying them around, move the seat straight up and down a few inches until they stop crying (think little bicep curls). Something about moving up and down calms them down super quick, and if you…

My wife and I had plenty of practice calming our first kid down, so we were well prepared when our second was born. It turns out that this one is addicted to our well-polished calming techniques, so we can barely put him down before he wants to be picked up again. As soon as you start bouncing him around, he looks…

I read your comment in the voice of someone who has never been a parent of a newborn.

Same here, DECEMBER works, but 367315 does not.

Same here, DECEMBER works, but 367315 does not.

The heavy pallets burn best, they’re made of denser hardwood stock like oak. Depending on the type of goods they were shipped with, you sometimes get cheapo, lightweight pallets made from southern yellow pine, which makes for a smokey, fast-burning and unpleasant smelling fire.

I’ve never seen or heard of a pallet made of treated wood, that would be insanely expensive.

Anyone else watch Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix show? One episode has a recurring cameo by Paro, the Japanese robotic pet seal:

From around the same time period, you have a sickeningly similar hatred of Italians. According to many acceptable editorials of the time, Italians were racially inferior, didn’t speak the language or try to assimilate, were filthy in habit, poor in character, and prone to crime.

Plenty of people who use marijuana are productive, and many are more so than average non-users. Just because you attended college with do-nothing slackers doesn’t prove a stereotype, it just means that you went to a school with a bunch of hippies. Since it was the 60s, I’m willing to bet that most of the…

I think this may be the previous record-holder for the reverse style, in 2012:

Just in case anyone was interested in the “non-reverse” parallel parking record:

“The UAW is [...] draining the auto industry IMO.”

We went from V-1s to Moon landings in less time.

Relatively speaking, going from V-1s to the Apollo propulsion system was mostly a matter of scale. As the article states, rocketry is at heart a brute force exercise. Over a hundred billion dollars of today’s money were spent over a decade on the Apollo program alone, with the world’s brightest and most motivated…