Also: Windsor to Quebec City.

He wants us to be grateful for his lesser bigotry.

Bayard Rustin would be proud.

No. Just generous.

VW owners have enough trouble getting service under the existing warranty. VW corporate would need to back this up with improved reliability and decent reimbursement of dealers for this to work.

Buncha Christians lose their schit because their solstice is insufficiently pagan?

Oh how I hate it when people play the “parent” card. Like when someone begins a political statement with “As a parent...”

and the minister for the status of women... EXISTS.

Looks like you want VW to be Skoda. That’s okay. So do I.

Finland. I mean, maybe Russia too, but mostly Finland.

WTF is “rear traffic alert”?

To be fair, the B210 was the WORST of its era. A Corolla, Civic, Rabbit, Fiat 128, hell, even an Isuzu I-mark (Opel Isuzu) would have been better. In their favor, B210s were unbreakable. In the Seventies, that was rare.

No, it’s a mound.

“Star Trek’s first crew featured both a Black woman, Nyota Uhura, and an Japanese man, Hikaru Sulu”, and also, not insignificantly given that the cold war was still going full tilt, a Russian, Chekhov.

Okay, I already knew that the “plague doctor” was a thing, but for some reason, seeing it on io9 made me think it was a new Doctor Who character.

...and gravel roads?

For example: any road in the snowbelt, where the lines on the road disappear for five months of the year.

On what road, on what planet, can you drive at 300 kph for two hours?

“she may have had a stroke while driving”