In fatal accidents (like the kind with pedestrians, especially), “an investigator trained in accident reconstruction ... conducting steering, braking, and acceleration tests” usually conducts those tests at the time, on the spot (checking everything to asphalt temperature to tire inflation along the way).

Here’s a lovely you missed, in which some asshole shot at a fleeing shoplifter in Las Vegas a few days ago: http://news3lv.com/news/local/pol…

By definition, recreation isn't a practical purpose.

Forget about specific types of firearms or informing the public: we can’t even get universal background checks.

Many states have mechanisms even for elected judges. A board of judges from the same circuit can take an elected judge off the bench, the chief judge of whatever circuit can temporarily suspend, the state supreme court can remove a judge from office, and the state bar association can sanction or revoke a law license…

Sweet Jesus, in January we might be handing this man nuclear launch codes and a blank check from the Treasury.

That and the fact that she sworn in an affidavit that she had not been raped and attended his fundraiser just a few weeks later, and has received quite a bit of money from right wing sources since she was convinced to “go public.” She might be yelling the truth, but the Clintons didn't need to do a damn thing to…

In (a very slight) defense of China getting the 2022 Winter Olympics: the only other country that wanted it was Kazahkstan, which, on a human rights level, makes China look like Canada.

The reason that teenagers are tried as adults, almost always, is because the juvenile justice system isn’t designed or equipped to handle those sorts of cases (namely murder and sexual assaults). They’re good at getting services for drug addicts or punishments for stealing cars, but there are neither the resources nor…

You are wrong on so very, very many levels.

21. why didn’t Cap record his conversation with Bucky when he had him pinned in the press and then send it to Ross and Stark.

Dumb things in the movie I’ve identified so far (some plotholes, some just dumb):

Think of it more like St Patrick’s Day. It meant something different in the country of origin, but is now an excuse to celebrate Irish-Anericans and an excuse to drink green beer.

As a somewhat serious reply: no, not if the book or that section was already sent in for final publication. By this time of year most high school yearbooks are finished.

Remember when she spent two weeks speaking in a bad British accent? That was enough to tip me off that she has a bad mental illness.

We’re going this summer, during rainy season. It’ll be wet, but everything from airfare to hotels are discounted, and they’re already dirt cheap. It’s been a life long dream of mine, too.

When George Harrison died I suffered 18 months of depression that required rehab and hospitalization. If I lose Prince, Merle, Bowie, and Paul McCartney goes, then fuck it. I’ll just check myself in some place for suicidal ideation and ride it out under guard and with lots of meds.

I read the same thing and assumed that Coates was going to take it in the direction of Bhutan, a country with a 1000 year monarchy that has added a parliament and whose king has promised that the monarchy dies with him. It’s a lovely country in a unique state of flux between the old ways and modernity, and it’s the…

If you believe creative process is directed by a social agenda, then there is a problem with you...

i can’t think of many great works of literature that DON’T push some sort of agenda. Pushing an agenda is one of the inherent traits of most great art.