My new 2018 Nissan doesn’t make a sound.

With modern cars (and I assume they were driving something that was newer than, say, a 2011 model), it’s almost impossible to drive without wearing a seatbelt. Their annoying alarms start within seconds of driving and don’t shut up. This happens even when I put something heavy in the passenger seat and my car thinks…

God. This never occured to me, but yeah. Like, we all know now that it was an accident based on equipment, but at the time, what if there were malice involved? It’s a little Law and Order-ish, but still. Someone died. You need to collect evidence. 

The “just have the baby and give it up for adoption” people are fucking idiots who have never had a kid, or haven’t been with a woman who has had a kid, or has no empathy for one who has. (Spoken as a guy who has no children, but who has been close friends with women who have gone through pregnancy.)

It’s not like when…

On 2 counts of forgery? Even if it’s a class B or C felony, that sounds about right (10% of $20,000) based on the standard Alabama bond schedule guidelines.

Yeah. I remember as a kid (long ago) when my mom was writing her dissertation. She paid someone to type (this was before computers, so there was a skill to judging when to stop the main text and begin with footnotes-- something I couldn’t imagine doing know). While the typist got a thanks in the acknowledgements, no…

God. I don’t know how people don’t get this. Like, the guy on stage called Romeo doesn’t actually die. He’s acting out a plot. And yet people STILL watch Shakespeare after all these years!!

Yeah. I get on at New Carrollton in the morning sometimes, and occasionally grab a breakfast sandwich from one of station’s vendors. I will eat it out on the platform-- I know it’s annoying for everyone else. But if that bell rings and I have a few bites left, I’ll still duck into the train and quickly scarf it down.…

Lol at this. I will clean the bathroom or kitchen or whatever and the girlfriend will complain that I didn’t do it good enough and that she should just do it to her liking. I mean, if you get mad that I am not optimising the dishwasher, then feel free to take over that job and get that extra plate in there. But keep…

Middle-aged while male in a relationship here. I have no children, but I know women who got pregnant by choice, and some not by choice. The by choice women obviously kept to term (or early in one case!), but the not by choice women made different decisions (none of these were with me, for full disclosure).

Do people really drive around looking at houses and offer less because the neighbor 3 blocks away doesn’t have a ferrari in the driveway?

Honest question— from someone who doesn’t know anything about real estate or taxes: How does this work?!?

it’s adapting a type of serial storytelling characteristic of the Marvel Universe’s first 30 years.

the lobbyist started a dark money group called Kingdom Principles

I’m with you. I don’t much watch wrestling now, but I do recall being a kid in the 80s and loved watching the WWF and NWA stuff and seeing the heat between the face and heel build over the months. This is getting into the early 90s I think, but the Flair-Sting rivalry seemed to be an event that was built up over many…

I know this has been covered before by lots of different people, but it is fucked up that WWE can get away with both 1) calling them “independant contractors” so that they avoid providing various benefits, but also 2) can prevent them from leaving the company or working for another promotion at the same time. 

I work in DC and don’t quite see the problem with these scooters. Plenty of tourists use them (and have a few times when I have needed to get to work from Union Station but don’t want to deal with a crowded Red Line), and in general people are pretty polite about leaving them upright out of the way of foot traffic.

Seeing Ellicott City get taken out twice like that was definitely rough, though. But notice there was a big thoughts and prayers response around here and not much else.

AS a Baltimore guy who commutes to DC daily, fuck all of this and fuck Hogan. The MARC train— the commuter rail that runs through MD to DC— is in desperate need of upgrades. Adding tracks, adding trains during rush hour periods, and improving trains to make the ride more comfortable, would go a long ways towards…

No worries. And yes, it’s a messed up world with some people!