Man, something like this would be perfect for my friend’s ‘68 Spitfire.

The thing that sucks about teaching (I am married to a teacher) is that it is assumed you will work for free. And they do. They are contracted for a specific number of hours per year, but everyone knows that the number of hours are insufficient for prep, professional development and instruction time. So they work a…

Fuck I miss Splinter.

Call me stupid, but can’t you just throw a rope over the wall, reach through for the loose end, tie it to one of the columns with a simple bowline knot, pull up the slack and climb that bitch like Batman and Robin?

More like the progressive answer to the challenge of class warfare that’s already being waged.

I used to be a real gym rat. I never thought I was among the powerhouses at the gym, but I was proud of the fact that I could do multiple sets of “real” pull-ups. Imagine my awe when a new guy stepped up to the bar with a backpack. He stuffed it with probably 70 pounds of dumbbells and started to knock out pull-ups…

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If the tax was actually going to be used on alternative transportation, like high-speed rail... I would say yes. But another tax that is going to be wasted on defense spending, no.

Great, how about we focus on other methods of transportation that serve solely for recreation instead of the ones that actually serve as transportation. Let’s start here:

Not everyone who logs miles in an airplane is a billionaire jet-setter. A fair number of frequent fliers (myself included) are having their travel paid for by their employer. Increasing the cost of those flights isn’t going to reduce the amount that I travel, it’ll just increase the amount my company pays for that…

I disagree with this. Being a frequent-flyer absolutely sucks. Taxing it would make it even more unbearable than it already is. What should be taxed up the wazoo are private jets and private-jet rides.

Its a fad in the same vain of barefoot running. The idea is that your heels can generate more power for squatting/deadlifting when you have increased balance, which is presumably easier without shoes. In reality, it’s fine to just wear shoes without fancy padding/structure (i.e. not expensive running shoes). The same…

Man, this story was just painful to read. That poor man has already lost his life, including his future, as the settlement made sure of that. He’s got nothing to show for all his years in incarceration, and will likely be a burden to others unless he gets a financial windfall (honestly, who’s going to hire him with…

Follow the money.  Always follow the money.

Even simpler than that: they don’t give a fuck about the controversy and think that the money they could receive for sticking to the Chinese government’s script will outweigh any downside from whatever negative press they receive.

I was watching the Jimquisition on this the other day and he made a fairly interesting point about Blizzard on this one. They argue that the matter is to keep politics out and keep the optics on the game itself. But if someone were to post something that is arguably political but less controversial (and certainly not…

Best pay attention to Seattle’s plight (or San Francisco’s, San Jose’s, etc.) - wealth aggregation in the digital economy will displace most of us if we don’t figure out a better mechanism to redistribute it.

Leave it to GM to make two pretty revolutionary cars (the Volt and Bolt), and then let their dealers act actively hostile to people trying to actually buy them.

As a libertarian I am okay with not invading countries.

This is so gross. Even grosser because everyone expected it to happen and it did.