The last (and final) time I went on a cruise with my family, I found $250 in casino chips in a chair that I was sitting in. That’s pretty lucky, right? Maybe I could have the same luck with a GranTurismo.

The bat costs a dollar more than the ball.

If it weren’t a convertible I would be, but “loaded convertible in AZ with low miles” screams “weekend car.” Given the issues this era’s Mitsus frequently had with clearcoat peeling and the shape this one’s paint is in, along with the clearness of the lenses (southern sun is brutal on that plastic) I’d wager it spent…

I would imagine it’s the “culture-defining” angle more than the “national history” one in these cases. Culture-defining stuff can come from anywhere, right?

No odder than including a song written by a British composer and musician who was part of a British band making British music for American audiences. Or another song written, produced, and performed by another all-British band.

It’s not a fixed number. The horsepower of the vehicle isn’t the issue, it’s the ability of the driver to handle it. I’ve known people who could (and did) handle 600hp in the rain at night with zero issues, and I’ve known people who wrapped 95hp cars around trees in clear/dry/bright.

Incredibly, 24 percent of the survey’s respondents claim to own a car with a manual transmission. Compare that with car-sales data from CarMax: The used-car retailer says that in 2020, only 2.4 percent of the vehicles it sold were equipped with a manual transmission, compared to 26.8 percent in 1995.

“Yes, I have billions of dollars, but I earned it. No one gave it to me.”

Flying the plane.

McAllen’s at 25, San Antonio at 37, and El Paso at 39. Part of this survey’s overall “score” is based on how often people medicate or seek medical attention for allergies, and you gotta admit allergies are just a way of life down there—unless you’re cracking ribs from coughing or you literally cannot get oxygen at all,…

Addressing someone you’ve never met or associated with in that way is extremely unprofessional, at the very least.

The one thing a monopoly does best is protect itself, and if they can use their paid-for legislators to create a playing field that ensures they can stifle competition while changing as little about their own processes as possible, they will. Most monopolies have to work real hard to create barriers to entry—much more…

This just in: He lies.

GQP:Trump::Frog:Scorpion

Not disagreeing with the fact-checking part, just the grammar. Em dashing the dependent clause cleans it up pretty well, with the recognition that it’s a fairly unwieldy sentence to begin with. (Also, “an El Al airliner” rather than “the El Al’s airliner” would be a less clunky construction, since the current version…

Would have to be a male child, though, so they could call him their wayward son.

A pair of em dashes would clean it up pretty nicely.

I keep my account active for my parents and grandparents to use, since they’re on fixed incomes. I don’t even use it myself. If they make it too problematic to keep this arrangement going, I can guarantee they’ll lose at least one subscriber, and they won’t be picking up three more.

Hopefully they’ll be pissed enough to have a recall election. It’d be nice to see one of these choads suffer some real consequences for a change.

He will serve his full term, he will receive no real censure of any kind from his party, he will be investigated by judiciary and no charges will be filed, and he will quite likely be reelected using funds given to him by the RNC.