Implied but not highlighted in this article is the degree to which the court systems are complicit in facilitating this parasitic and fundamentally unfair financing con game. In some states the courts act as supplementary de facto collection agencies, adding fines and jail times to the already burdened debtor.

Right from the start you are full of shit. In 2018 $4K only buys you a marginally usable car if you are lucky and only if you are capable of doing all or most of the maintenance for yourself. $4K buys you a piece of crap which is a continuous and expensive money sink which is a hassle to keep running.

How much does it cost you?

There’s definitely an incest vibe in that picture -- not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen are well aware of the cost of jamming old meat into fresh meat.

Sometimes you are allowed to have a little fun in the Ohhh So Serious professional sports racket. Plus it’s not that easy to avoid an unforced error even with fairly easy shots. These were mostly a string of backhands which also present a little more of a challenge. Appreciate the consistency and accuracy of the…

Hailey Baldwin looks fantastic and put together in every picture of her. Justin Bieber looks like a scruffy bit of random human debris picked out of the gutter in most pictures of them together. This pairing is mindboggling in it’s offense against aesthetic suitability.

Betsy is probably laughing at your puny and insignificant outrage. She is paraphrasng in her mind the punchline to the old joke:

This is not Nikki Haley’s apartment, nor are they Nikki Haley’s curtains. They are the apartment and furnishings of the US Ambassador to the United Nations. After Haley and Trump are gone another ambassador will move into the same apartment and use the same curtains until they are too worn and need to be replaced.

“You are old, Bernie Sanders,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on the left–
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”

Kids nowadays with their smartyphone induced Attention Deficit Disorder. They can’t even do a simple sexual assault without fiddling with a phone. Back in my day we concentrated on the job at hand. None of this stupid-ass multitasking.

Where were Serena Williams and Carlos Ramos while this was going on, and why was Serena brutalized and mistreated in such an unjust manner, while male players have traditionally been permitted, even encouraged, to misbehave in more egregious ways?

Is this the commenters fluffing each other thread?

Are food writers more pompous self-important dicks than wine critics?

You are an extraordinarily excellent and gifted commenter with a stellar body of work. You are a shining example to all of us. God bless you for being you. Would you please post a selection of your best comments so we can admire your awesome apercus and learn from them.

I lack oenophilic expertise and am forced to apply simple rules in the selection of wines for my consumption. Do the wine bottles delivered by this club have corks or screw caps?

I lack oenophilic expertise and am forced to apply simple rules in the selection of wines for my consumption. Do the…

Nu? Everybody got to be someplace!

Nu? Everybody got to be someplace!

without counting the bad example given to millions of young people who follow motorbike races

In Manhattan, they can’t get a non-stale bagel?

I can hardly wait for the second edition of “The Art of the Deal - The President Years”.