I think you’d still need a cheek swab from either Leia or Darth Vader to get the patrilineal X chromosome, but maybe Leia cooperated?

Because journalists, even those who work for blogs like this one, don’t rat out their sources to the subject of the sources’ criticism?

So what? I made $6345.22 last month from my laptop. I just made a down payment on a BMW with my last check. my sister in law made over $80,000 last year on Google.

I’m glad I’m not the only one annoyed by that sort of thing.

Please! Or if you’re feeling really civic, draw straws and have like 10 percent of you relocate to flyover country. 300,000 or so Californians, and there were millions to spare, could have swung this.

Went to undergrad at the University of Dayton, can confirm.

It’s not the key to time travel, it’s what makes time travel possible. Sheesh.

I was thinking the same thing. Are you really ever using 6th on the track? (Hint: no). Are you ever even in 5th? (maybe, depends on the engine). So why not have close-ratio track gears, and a tall 6th (or a taller 5th and 6th) for highway cruising?

“After floating into laughable obscurity, the synth-heavy anthem was reborn when a magician named Gob made it his theme song.”

I’ve been thinking exactly the same thing. Price it to start around $100K, badge it a Cadillac, and keep the Corvette a Corvette (perhaps while sharing parts).

Well there you go. I stand corrected. Kinda surprised the economics of that worked out, but what do I know?

“The Washington was a commercial trading vessel that transported furs and household goods across lakes Eerie [sic] and Ontario in the late 18th century.”

I saw the mugshot and thought “not bright, but kind of cute.” Then I looked closer and saw the neck tattoo, and thought “definitely a C4.”

That plane, though old and long out of production, may actually be newer than the Donald’s 757. Although I bet this one doesn’t have gold-plated ethernet ports.

And autocorrect pwn3d.

A new car loses 25% of its value the moment it drives off the lot.

(*Correction: the dealership originally told me this truck had a 4.6 V8, but Toyota has informed me it’s actually a 4.0 V6 truck.)

I love that movie. I once said that the proof of its cinematic genius is that it makes Tom Cruise look talented, and the Porsche 928 look fast. Although it did take an entire chase scene for the gang to lose Guido the Pimp in his malaise-era Cadillac, so maybe the second point is a bit overstated. Still, great film.

Dumb, but serious question: what is the advantage of owning a stick or box if you bought your TV (or Blu-Ray player, or console) in the last few years and it has integrated “smart” functions for Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.? Is there a performance advantage? Less buffering? Better-implemented apps? I’ve been thinking…

You know, as long as we’re on the topic of sacrilege, I love me a 2+2 Ferrari GT. Give me a V-12 in the front, a pint-sized backseat in the back, and a gated shifter in between. As long as I’m dreaming, it might as well be something I can pull into the daycare parking lot...