Kushner isn’t being appointed to an outward policy position requiring him to demonstrate his qualifications in projecting policy positions. He’s being appointed a position of advising the President in an unspecified, internal role. And he’s actually probably not going to be paid for it.

Technically, sorta kinda a 3/4 ton. In terms of how its marketed and perceived, it’s more like a 2/3 ton. It tows more than most 1/2 tons, not as much as a 3/4 ton, hauls (payload) about normal for a 1/2 ton.

I’m in San Antonio where we, along with the Austin area, get inundated in the winter by Mountain Cedar/Juniper pollen which is, apparently, one of the worst pollens, and its in copious quantities. This year is the worst year since the mid-’90s. I got hit bad, basically overnight, and woke up with a congested chest.…

UConn Women’s Bball Coach Geno Auriemma has suggested the women’s sport would be more entertaining, and fair, if the rim was lowered 7" or so (in line with average NBA height vs. WNBA height).

I live in San Antonio. Last night the outside temperature dipped enough to pull our interior temperature down to the 66 degree trigger for my heater. My wife was cold when she woke up. I turned the heater to 68.

The McDonalds suit is a bad example to use in support of tort reform, especially when there are so many good examples- such as two suits against Starbucks in 2016, one for 1/4" too much steamed milk and one for too much ice in the iced coffee, against MasterCard for continuing a charity fundraiser even after the…

I work at an insurance defense law firm (rear-end somebody who ends up suing you, your insurance hires someone like me to defend you; sue your own auto or homeowners’ insurance company because they didn’t pay enough on your claim, they hire someone like me to defend them) and, other than our normal work, we’re…

I think the internet, and the Gawker-related sites, in particular, are conditioned to hate anything that acknowledges some person has, or has family who have, enough money to buy a gift for someone else for more than $25. Like having successful family members who buy you stuff makes you a bad person.

I work for a small to mid-sized law firm. We have our big annual review, usually, in late November. By then, everything has been decided. What I did right, what I did wrong, what my raise will be, and what my bonus will be. So I just sit there, smile, acknowledge my mistakes, thank the boss for my successes, and then…

I was an out-of-state college student in Texas in the early 2000s and many bars wouldn’t let me use my out-of-state ID to drink. Apparently, if they check ID, and it was a fake Texas license, and not obviously so, they could be absolved of responsibility for serving a minor, but if it was a fake out-of-state ID, they…

Even if the car meets the technical letter of the agreement for the buyback, courts will sometimes interpret such contracts through the vein of “good faith.” If its clear the agreement that cars be “operable” to qualify, but that VW intended that be broad enough to cover cars that had some dings, dents, scratches,…

I can’t stand working from home. Hard to be productive.

I got a call from Dell collections as I prepared to walk into the bar exam, saying my new wife owed them $1600 plus collection costs and fees for a Dell computer she’d purchased. I knew she hadn’t purchased a Dell (she was using my old computer) and called her. Come to find out my Mother-in-law, who has bad credit,…

Anyone who wouldn’t isn’t a REAL car person.

What happens in the next couple of years when that YUUUUUGEE ESPN TV deal goes belly-up because ESPN loses enough subscribers to go broke?

Here in Texas, I’ve been happy with Frost Bank- a fairly large (for a regional bank), successful bank (not CU), but you get a personal banker and whenever you call, any time, someone answers rather than a menu- and someone who is in Texas, rather than across the planet.

I just leased a car for the first time. I had the cash to make a large downpayment to get the payments, for a reasonable time period, down to what I wanted, but by leasing I got the monthly payment to the same level with a lot less down- saving the cash for other purposes. I don’t intend to drive the vehicle forever-…

I agree that cost-savings on the F-35 may be little beyond us...but I read the tweet more as using the F-35 as an example of out of control costs- not wrong- and the promise to cut spending as more of an across-the-board, more than just the F-35 promise. I believe the WashPo just did an article about some private…

Move to San Antonio. Depending on district, teachers start, as in right out of school, at $50K.

Everywhere my wife, mom, aunt, uncle, and two cousins have worked- you have a bachelor’s degree and x years experience, you make this much...oh, a master’s degree and y years? This much.