If you are a typical motorist, you share the road with vehicles that vastly outweigh yours. If a cement truck runs a stop sign and kills you, are you at fault for failure to exercise “common sense”? Does your car’s inability to protect you from said cement truck as you “play in traffic”(drive to work) absolve it’s…

Motorist who park their cars or trucks in bike lanes (often when there are parking spaces available nearby) also block traffic. I will see several instances of this any time I cross town using my city’s designated cycling routes. I have seen cyclists riding four abreast maybe four times in my life. Consideration is a…

Maybe he felt a need to stand out? And, being from a family of decent people the easiest way to do that was to be horrible?

So, HamNo, I thought “the right wing version of Thomas Friedman” was Thomas Friedman.

Well, I know for a fact I’m a worse driver than I was in the eighties.

His sanctimonious smarm always bugged me the most.

AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC VW OWNER, I HAVE TO SAY,

More importantly to most traditional diesel buyers (like me), how is the fuel efficiency effected? If it’s not stunningly efficient, what’s the point?

In Chermany zey expect ze driver to know vhich vay zey are turning.

Or if Obama had five kids by three different women?

That’s how he got into his own “personal Vietnam”.

I am not a lawyer, I only play one in my imagination. But I think in order to be awarded compensation you’d have to prove malicious intent, which would be nearly impossible even if you ignore the system’s bias toward protecting prosecutors. Unfortunately mere incompetence combined with political ambition aren’t…

What’s especially galling is his enthusiasm for cutting social programs, given that, after his father drank himself to death, young Paul Ryan was supported by Social Security survivors’ benefits.

This incredible wrong will not be righted until he gets his 20 years back. Or at the very least, until the District Attorney who prosecuted him faces some consequence.

I’ve seen false equivalence before, but THIS ...

Baby boomers were born post-WWII. This guy was born around 1940. But otherwise, yeah.

It’s a classic straw man: refute the argument nobody was making.

From my memory of the one we rented in Portugal in 1997, they handle well, and the size, visibility, and easy to locate edges make it infinitely checkable in traffic. But take it up to 130 kph or so, and it gets just a bit twitchy.

Bettica? Veronetty?

I don’t watch much television either, so I googled. Who new even a fictional character could have a wikipedia entry?