Hi everbody, I’m a grownup now! You can tell by my skin tight, comically short pants without socks that pull uncomfortably at my crotch and jacket with deep creases where I’ve had to pull it taut to button it!

The California Department of Motor Vehicles will allow autonomous cars without steering wheels, foot pedals, mirrors, and human drivers behind the wheel to be tested on its roads starting next year.

As our actual relationship to things like honor, valor, patriotism, “the troops”, etc becomes increasingly attenuated, brittle and little more than a signifier of an inchoate politics of belligerence, our performances of same become increasingly ludicrous kabuki, alternating swooning, hagiograhic paeans to “warriors”…

All reasonable style observations, but you can do way better than J. Crew for similar money. The market is positively infested with mediocre jackets and suits that look good on models but are not going to last and likely won’t look nearly as good on you. At the same time, there are a number of online tailors and…

The “Institute for Energy Research” is a Koch funded, climate change denying, anti-renewable pro-fossil fuel front. Using them for analysis of California’s energy usage is like using the American Beef Council to evalulate the health of vegitarians.

Between my wife a teen daughter, we have almost 2 dozen of these water bottles.

And even then the scenes of the afterlife were all flashforwards to after all of their eventual deaths, by natural causes or no, so nothing on the island was part of that.

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Yeah, the fan probably yelled “Hey Matt! What’s a common slur for homosexuals that begins with F and ends with T? Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” It’s important to get the whole story.

To say that his attitude was “entitled” is a gross mischaracterization. He went out of his way to explain that he didn’t blame the dealership or Mercedes for not wanting to bargain with him, in that that there was no to little upside for them. He praised the engineering of the car to high heaven. He praised the…

Also bears mentioning that the Warriors hatred (or at least antipathy) that everyone is claiming arises out of signing KD and creating a juggernaut didn’t actually start this season— see also the constant, inevitable chants of “blew a 3-1 lead” and “ball kickers” any time a Warriors story goes up on Deadspin since…

If you watch the video he does this little pat pat thing after he gets his hand up there— a little like drumming his fingers. It’s an anger tell and he does that all the time— when he’s been caught out or forced to do something because he’s in public or just doesn’t like what he’s hearing he starts tapping his foot or…

Jalop runs piece on Apple car. Commentariat rushes to post increasingly labored takes on proprietary connectors, closed systems and hipster form over function.

The trouble is there is a significant percentage of the population that will like the sound of that. Even if they’re deeply unclear regarding North Korea in general, or what trouble, specifically, they’re looking for, the whole idea of calling someone out for “asking for it” coupled with, in effect, “we’ll give them…

But that’s not what happened. They’re not investigating the legitimacy of his claim, they’re digging into his past to see if there’s anything that casts him in a negative light. Discovering he’s had troubles in the past has zero bearing on his status as a doctor now, unless your idea is that he’s not really a doctor…

The “I’m a doctor, I have patients” card? WTF? So now literally anything is a “card”? What about the “I’m pregnant, please don’t hurt my baby” card? I guess that would make it legit to look into just what kind of caregiver this so called “mother” really was? How about the “I have diabetes, I need to get to my insulin”…

States that carry guns have less crime than anywhere else because you never know who is gonna shoot you if you rob a store, bank with a gun.

Trump on Kim Jong-un: “He’s a strong leader. An incredibly... and might I add, very, very successful. Very powerful, very successful, a real leader. He’s said very nice things about me.” “He’s killed a lot of his own government.” “We kill all the time. Constant. Constant. People are saying, I heard, there are bodies…

I can’t be the only one who knows how it’s pronounced but might say “Porsh” in the same general way one says “Chevy” for “Chevrolet”? You know, like an affectionate nickname?

Yes, but recall that Michael says (to Eleanor) “I can’t believe you figured it out— you always ruin everything.” There’s nothing in the run of the show to suggest that Eleanor has “ruined” any of Michael’s plans, so I think he’s saying that it’s always Eleanor that figures it out on every loop. He can’t believe she…