Now that I’m older I tell young people that maintaining your own high standards of personal integrity, whatever the motivation, may not always keep you warm at night, but should allow you to sleep more easily. I still remember how flabbergasted I was when another male resident of my freshman dorm told me, in the…

It’s also ignorant, because neither Georgetown Prep students nor Supreme Court Justices are randomly selected (especially when the justices are picked by the same Presidential administration). When I worked at The Johns Hopkins University, two of the people in my work group of fewer than 20 people were graduates of…

But, but, but, part of “draining the swamp” was Trump’s Executive Order, and appointees accompanying signed pledges not to become lobbyists for either 5 years or life, depending on position. Of course, courts have repeatedly held that such bans are generally unenforceable as infringements on free speech, so it was…

“Less down” is not “up”. Ratings are a percentage of the TV population, the potential audience, that are tuned to a particular show. What you’re trying to get at is closer to what Nielsen calls “share”, the percentage of TV population actually turned on at a particular time, the actual audience, tuned to a particular…

If they were all death camp guards and other war criminals, drug and sex traffickers, etc., I imagine most reasonable people would support it. I suspect that the reality is they will deport refugees who lied about convictions for felonies that may even have been, dare I say it, trumped up by nations that used to be…

EPA head is less prestigious than Attorney General, but surely the opportunities for graft are greater and less likely to attract attention, which seems to be his real goal.

That’s usually called a title fee, sometimes a registration fee (and if there’s a lien there’s an additional fee to record that), and it’s usually modest compared to... Document aka conveyance fees are charged by the dealer to recoup the cost of preparing and filing sales, loan, warranty, disclosure, registration, and…

Left is sun mandala, right is crescent moon mandala. Your fusiform gyrus is creating the “face”, like Jesus on burnt toast.

H-D is following the President’s dictum: they are going to build them where they sell them. And in another delicious irony, while the President can, for the moment, apply tariffs on imported goods on his own authority, he has no power to “tax” them otherwise without Congressional action, so we may have a chance to see…

Or the cee’d-based Hyundai i30 aka “Elantra” GT:

I think it’s telling about Ford’s issues with touchscreens that even journalists who write in depth about such things, let alone the ones who experience them more casually, are unwilling or incapable of distinguishing between SYNC, MyFord, and MyFord Touch. It was really only the last which was problematic, which is…

For good reasons, it’s difficult for the government to deny a permit for use of open public space on the Mall for an event. The main criteria is that the space and time you ask for isn’t already allocated to another event. If the event is a demonstration, and there are no more than 25 demonstrators (presumably not…

Because it, like most of the country that wasn’t extensively settled by the end of the War of the American Revolution, was surveyed and divided according to the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and later incorporated into the Public Land Survey System. 160 acres was a homestead, 2x2…

Brushless, touchless washes seem to work just fine and charge the same or lower prices, so avoid old-fashioned ones to encourage their obsolescence and replacement.

The fob looks beautiful, but it seems unnecessarily enormous. Even the wider, flatter ones are annoying to carry in slacks’ pockets compared to keys or even the compact remotes of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Well, in 1966, no passenger-side mirror would have been typical. Many cars didn’t have a driver-side mirror unless you paid extra for it.

If the review seems irrelevant and you can’t trust it, it logically follows that it’s actually very significant.

If the review seems irrelevant and you can’t trust it, it logically follows that it’s actually very significant.

You understand that the ubiquity of 1/4-pound sticks of butter is a relatively modern development? Butter was traditionally sold in 1-lb blocks, and butter dishes were about the size of a salad plate with a dome cover, to hold a square or circle sliced off the block. Sticks might be available, but at a higher price,…

Hondas built in Indiana are not going to have lower prices than the same Hondas built in Ontario, so prices on US-built cars can rise as well, especially as the supply of exclusively US-assembeld cars isn’t going to match demand. And prices will go up since the president’s minions indicate the US objects to…