It has been a long time.  :D

This.

Well, obviously with team Durex, the car's gonna be slippery. That rubber compound is optimized to slide, not to grip.

Absent:

Getting rid of implied immunity would be a great first step, especially on traffic stops. 

Needed some fenders. 

But how will he signal his virtue to his brethren and sisteren without dropping such hints in his writing?

but it’s a very stark reminder of the difference between the haves and have-nots.

This would be a very different if the driver was anything other than a white woman.  I'd lay odds she doesn't get more than a slap on the wrist.

I felt attacked from all sides — the bullying tractor-trailers on the highway, the flatness, the cold, the constant anxiety about where it would be safe to piss.

Immediate flashbacks to Nicky Hayden.

The NASA budget only went up during the Reagan administration. 1981 5.5bln to 1989 11bln based on US OMB records. 

If it weren’t for PB Blaster, I’d have to walk to the store.

I keep a little vial of it in my necklace.

Mid drive systems to retro onto an existing bike are out there. You could upgrade your single, Bradley.

it was NBC Dateline with the gm saddle tanks, not 60 minutes:

Never forget what 60 Minutes did to Audi with bullshit hacked transmission unintended acceleration, or what the did to Chevy with bullshit pyrotechnical gas tank ignition.

Oh, thank fuck

Personally I’m one of those few freaks that genuinely believes in voting for whomever will do the best job at protecting all of our rights regardless of party.

You mean the vast majority of them that resigned themselves to four years of a jack wagon claiming to represent them and now a different jack wagon just as incapable of appropriately representing anyone. Let’s face it we’ve had sixteen years of shit sandwiches and we’re looking at four more. Fire them all, both sides,…