I totally support things that truly offend people for good reason — confederate memorials from the early 20th century erected by white legislators as a form of social intimidation? Clearly a bad idea.

I think part of the reason people defend usage of words that aren’t specifically racial/racist/offensive is that they don’t want the worst people from both ends of the spectrum (both the biggest racist assholes and the most over-the-top ridiculously sensitive) to be able to set the agenda or claim ownership. It’s…

“As an aside, what are you really fighting for when you demand to keep a word that a large group of people is bothered by, or that a group of experts finds pejorative?”

Somewhat similarly, the term “slave” did not originally have racial implications, as it existed before the modern concept of race. It derived from the ethnonym “Slav” (the Indo-European people).

This is interesting, because AFAIK the connotation of “black” being evil and “white” being good far predates the invention of race. So I rather doubt that “whitelist” and “blacklist” were originally intended with any sort of racial implication. (The opposite may be true: those espousing race theory may have selected…

BNA enjoys Studio Trigger’s usual visual appeal and a premise full of interesting concepts. It’s pretty fun overall, but very little of its plot sees any follow-through. It’s clear the show is trying to say something, but never entirely apparent what that might be.

Yep, and pretty old school (hanging)

Considering his trial will likely get him the death penalty. It seems cruel to let him suffer with serious burns for years till he partially recovers and then kill him.

I agree, but also - her stories are pretty misogynistic at their core. Entertaining enough as a guilty pleasure read but not deserving of the obsessive fandom. Still better than 50 Shades by a mile though.

Harvey Birdman....now that takes me back

Goodness I miss that show. It looks like it kept its “on-the-nose” social statements but its mostly stale humor.

Old cartoons like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law has raised my standards when it comes to such. How in the hell do the jokes in this still hold up after so long.

Harley Davidson Road Glide Ultra CVO - 968 pounds curb weight

Oh go soak your head

If you don’t think 0-200 in 7 seconds is exciting, then you’ve got brain worms. 

The same curmudgeons are complaining about radial tires and disk brakes.

Which would be a problem if they were all recharged during peak hours. Most people will charge overnight at home, when there is spare capacity on the grid.

I hate new things too, brother. That's why I still drive a horse.

Did this math a few months ago. 

Bullshit. Our power grid can more than handle a rapid growth in EV adoption, and anyone telling you otherwise is lying.

The old yoostabee gearheads didn’t like the transition to fuel injection either, but I don’t see them bitching about it now that there are cars running tens in the quarter mile from the factory.

You…

How about ‘motorhead’ instead?