That would be the typical Malthusian pattern.

Great News!

Serious question: Is the NP200 even a Nissan, or is it a platform-share with someone else?

The modern version

I appreciate the joke, but I once encountered (on this very Blog) a commenter who seriously proposed that to preserve cropland during a period of warming, we could transport topsoil from the prairies to the arctic. By truck.

It’s not going to pay to rebuild any bridges.

More proof that taxes on the 0.1% are too low.

I was going to comment about why this is a really bad idea, but your link covers it.

Sorry. I live in a fashion-free zone.

Not so much Elton John, who outgrew his bling phase. More like zombie Liberace.

No. Telling your five year old to fuck a quarterback is. (probably illegal, too)

Whatta putz!

So, what is a Swarovski “crystal” anyway? I mean they’re rhinestones, right? That someone is trying to brand as NOT tacky as shit? Basically, the Trump Towers of Jewelry?

There’s no evidence that he interacted with his victim long enough to guess that he was autistic or in any other way disabled.

Ten years old and you hadn’t had “the talk” yet? I thought that started at about six! ( Full disclosure: I’m white but I’m going to have black grandkids. Since the parents are not Americans they never had “the talk” so I/they are going to need some advice on this subject)

Also:

Suburban ring road, two lanes each direction, Speed limit 80 kph. I’m driving my trusty ‘92 Geo Metro, towing a 4x8 utility trailer full of “C&D” to the landfill. I can see (hell, anyone could see) that half a kilometre ahead the right lane is closed for road maintenance. The left lane beside me is wide open so, since…

Unfortunately, FDR forgot about him too, which is how we got President Truman!