A married father decided to attempt to woo a friend of mine who was his classmate in an English MA program. She was in a shitty relationship and flirted back a bit, to her current shame, they probably let things cross some lines but then my favorite thing of all time happened.

Had you read what I wrote - brandishing a weapon can be a crime, it is not inherently so. His defense - which, to be blunt, will hold sway with a small-town PD or sheriff assuming he’s an otherwise clean citizen - is that he felt threatened by a pack of riders, most of whom were on one side until one circled around…

Multiple sportbike riders - not a group with the best reputation among your average jury pool - a defense lawyer who has heard of Alexian Lien, he said she said claims by the truck people that the sport bikers were acting hostile prior? Yeah, that can easily get a jury on your side in Texas.

There is no “duty to retreat” in Texas, FYI.

I really don’t understand why GTLM/GTD-style racing (the prototypes are fine too) isn’t more popular than NASCAR/F1/Indy in the US - all the beauty of road racing + actual passing?

This is going to look so nice when the little old lady who can’t see over the steering wheel or retired banker day-drinking runs me off the road while changing lanes.

‘Conscious’ indie rap’s downfall was always it’s corniness. Is Slug any better than Macklemore? No, he just didn’t have any hits and Macklemore might be a little bit cornier since he became your mom’s favorite rapper.

“Girls” was pretty par for the course for raunchy ‘80s rap that everyone is cool with - is LL’s “Big Ole Butt” less offensive, really?

I don’t care how many cool cars someone owns, hereditary aristocracy that continues to identify as hereditary aristocracy get the guillotine.

Hated in an Internet echo chamber, maybe, but both are still loved by the public at large.

One of my part-time employees has a ragged out non-Turbo as his second car - basically living out the aging (mid-30s) Fast & Furious fan prediction below. Still a pretty good looking car, but I think I’d rather have the mid-late ‘80s 300ZX or Supra over the early ‘90s version of either.

Just one to start - either a top of the line Range Rover or a Cayman GTS. I’d set off for a two year drive across the US and Canada (until people forgot about that guy who won all that money, hopefully), flying in friends and family to meet me at different two-week stops.

Price is going to be a major issue. A Colorado Z71 crew cab (V6, RWD, etc.) can be had for $31-31.5k (MSRP $2k more).

If you don’t care about Z71 badging or the power driver’s seat, the LT without luxury package (leather + power/heated seats) is probably $2k less than that.

If the Ridgeline’s price is $35-36k as was…

Everybody makes fun of crossovers - station wagons with shitty handling blah blah blah. Really, though, the way that 99% of people in this market drive how much ‘handling’ is there to notice beyond ease of parking and turning radius?

1 in 5 state GOP platforms called for teaching creationism in 2012 - which 10 Democratic platforms called for either a ban on cars or for an end to ‘work’?

As I said - not equivalent.

Hyperbole isn’t the same thing, for starters... but no, they’re not equal statements. A majority of Republicans and conservatives are actual, honest-to-god creationists and a significant portion are young earth creationists. This isn’t disputable - polling repeatedly confirms this and, in fact, teaching creationism…

Well, no, I’m not a liberal. A political nihilist, maybe.

I find tiresome, though, the extremists of the center (and libertarians, natch) who can do no better than lazy equivocation between the two sides, harkening back to non-existent glory days of American democracy (THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXTREME OMG - well,…

Key difference - there are a real number of young-Earth creationists in the GOP and a majority of the party are creationists of one stripe or another. Teaching creationism is a plank in many state GOP platforms.

Well, when your definition of liberal is such an absurd strawman, it makes it hard to find a party. I’m going to guess you describe yourself as a libertarian?

Ah, “auto-immune diseases,” hallmark of entitled whitedom. I bet they're suffering from adrenal fatigue brought on by vaccinations and gluten. A no-FODMAP Paleo diet supplemented with choice essential oils will surely solve the issue.