And it’s hardly a ringing endorsement of corporal punishment. Surely if it worked they would have turned out better than kids who were never beaten?

I just want to talk about Lamorne Morris, who is fucking great, and super funny.  That's all I got.

This is the kind of thing you do and then return to the future and jump out of your time machine only to discover that the United Iroquois Confederation’s version of the Monroe Doctrine did not go great for significant portions of Central and South America.

I agree that there’s no substitute for a scratch made salsa, but beans are a pain in the ass, and by God there is just no way that I'm scratch cooking some dried fucking beans so that I can then cook them a second time to make refried beans.  I won't do it and no one's abuelitas or tias can make me.  I've bee hit with…

Seems inevitable, despite the fact that, so far as I read, there was no plan for a general increase in taxes to fund the program?  It’s social welfare programs all over again.  White Americans are such nosy assholes, always desperate to know what’s being done with “their” money, as though it would be given back to…

Except that there’s no evidence that traffic stops, whether they result in warnings or tickets, do anything significant to modify the behavior of individual drivers.

There are permanent cameras, but I’ve really only seen them in larger municipalities. They’re used in areas where the prevailing speed might be higher than the posted limit, but they want the limit more strictly obeyed due to heavy pedestrian traffic, a nearby school, or high accident rates, etc.

Bears are awesome.  Like, did you folks know that you can’t use some brands of “bearproof” food containers if you camp in the Adirondacks?  There’s a bear there who figured out how to open the containers, then evidently taught other bears how to do it.

Why bother with traffic stops at all. Most traffic enforcement in Germany is done by speed camera. You get a note in the mail, pay your 20 euros, and continue on about your business.

Why would it be bad to have 18500 available to me? Let’s say I don’t put it in an index fund, but there’s a sudden significant expense. A medical issue, death of a family member, whatever. Now I have liquid funds to meet that need.

Sure, but in this scenario someone apparently has enough ready cash to buy a car and not be concerned with the risk that a lack of ready cash will be damaging.

This is a fair point, but psychologically I don’t know that Ramsey’s “debt is EVIL” outlook is especially realistic or healthy for most people. Managing debt requires being able to evaluate it without fear or the sense that it represents failure.

Why would I pay cash and turn down free money? Let’s say we both have a used Corolla worth of cash in the bank. You pay 18500 cash for one of Tom’s used Corollas, and I finance the MSRP of 24425 at 0% and dump that 18500 into an index fund. For the sake of argument, we both have the same income and expenses, but you…

The following is not intended to discount the need for greater systemic change in Smash, reports, or society in general, but it seems apparent that Smash events are insanely lax on attendance rules given the age range of potential participants. Measures to ensure that minors are accompanied by a parent or guardian…

Deadspin Forever.

I think there’s an argument to be made that those lines had already crossed and are now rapidly diverging.

I’m not 100% in on Lemon yet either, but it’s so weird to be in this position. If you had said to me at the end of last year that I was going to watch Don Lemon interview Terry Crews and come out the other side agreeing with Don Lemon on Crews needing to get right with the times I'd have laughed in your face.

How many museum piece Jaguar XK120s do we need?  At a certain point, there are enough Concours-ready vehicles out there.  They’re beautiful cars, but they were also always intended to be driven.  I don’t think there’s anything wrong with creating a version of the vehicle that’s more likely to stay on the road, rather…

So this woman is (formerly) employed at a Hampton Inn, and there is absolutely no reason to care whatsoever about who uses the pool. We’ve all worked in customer service, and no one gives a shit about how customers use or abuse our employers’ shit, except to the extent that it affects us, which in this case is…

This is a bummer, not because I think the Drow joke is worth keeping, but because the rest of that episode is so good and so important to the context of that whole season.  I hope they cut something together to get a blackface-less version back into syndication/streaming, because the rest of that episode is totally…