One word: Salt.

If money makes you immune to loneliness, pain, isolation, depression, numbness, etc. then why did Robin Williams commit suicide? The judgement that no one who has money or, for that matter, is a white male is entitled to feel shitty is a pretty fundamental failure to recognize these people's basic humanity. It's a…

Excellent article, though you miss one important contributing factor to the militarization of police in the US: Money. Political cowardice and the appearance of being, "tough on crime" are certainly popular, but not nearly as popular as manipulating public policy to funnel taxpayer money to campaign…

The key thing that we've forgotten is that its when things get difficult that it is most important to uphold our values as a society. The America of today bears little resemblance to what the founders intended, even on the most basic level.

Got a pair of Beyer Custom One Pros for my (new) train commute and am really loving them. People say they are weak in the midrange, but I don't find that to be as true as the graphs would sugges. I actually found them better than the Momentums in that regard. Listening to some hardcore, they are way less muddy than…

Got a pair of Beyer Custom One Pros for my (new) train commute and am really loving them. People say they are weak…

Presidential races conjure the devil in people. Mitt Romney the governor, while still possessing many attributes that people could hate about him, was a much more reasonable man than Mitt Romney the presidential candidate. Both the Democrats and Republicans are hopelessly corrupt, but the Republican party platform…

This doesn't really make any sense. Cable internet is marked up 4900% compared to what, exactly? Does that figure take into account the cost of building out the network, maintaining interconnection points and networking hardware, staffing, tech support, servers, etc.? I'm not trying to defend the cable companies,…

You must be very young. You'll figure it out.

In the mean time, seriously, just tip. It's not that bad.

I don't understand why people get so riled up about this. The situation is that tipping is part of what gets waiters to (hopefully at least) minimum wage in America....so tip. You're going to be paying roughly the same regardless of whether the restaurant pays it or you do...the money isn't going to come off their…

Exactly. No reason to over think it.

I always tip 20% unless its super obvious they shouldn't get it, which is *maybe* 1% of the time. Am I noticeably irritated with the service at the end of the meal? Then move the decimal point and add on half that for 15%. Am I angry that the service was terrible? Just move the…

This is exactly why I sold my STi and bought a Miata. As I got older and was less interested in driving around in the middle of the night, the car became frustrating because you could never enjoy it. Maybe you could get one or two nice corners in, but you were moving so fast it wouldn't be long before you were on…

""We are one community that decided we've got backbone and we're not going to allow the oil companies to dictate to us what we can and cannot do,"

So you're pumping the oil out of the ground and refining it yourself, right?

As a Libertarian, I'm not opposed to people forming small scale collectives if that's how they…

When I was buying my STi I did some research into Alcantara to see how easy it is to clean. Apparently every single thing I read is absolutely 100% the opposite of truth. It sounds as if I could probably even hit it with the carpet extractor (with the hot water turned off). They made it out like it was impossible…

Im amazed at what residents tolerate from the NYPD. Blatant racial profiling and violation of the 4th amendment, shooting sprees on public streets, blatant lying...I mean when is it enough? Even if these guys did something wrong, the police are still outright lying in their report!

I won't go to NYC anymore. I'm a…

I totally agree, with the exception of the Pontiac Aztek. No one should be allowed to drive that for any reason.

Best case scenario for Wayne county...keep taxing, keep reselling, keep making money off it.

It's cute that they want to redevelop the plant, but the neighborhood that its in needs some work too. I am skeptical about any of the plans actually succeeding. Down town seems like a much more sensible place to invest since…

I've seen more than a few of these (stupid ass things) in Detroit too.

I'm sure congress was well paid to cancel the second engine as well. Losing double digit percentages on producing and maintaining engines over the projected lifespan of the F-35 is small potatoes compared to some free travel and campaign contributions for congressmen.

The one thing I don't necessarily agree with,…

Right, totally, but "cut" doesn't necessarily mean, "small" or "inadequate". Despite what the DoD would like us to think, their budget is still absolutely tremendous and more than adequate to procure what they need. The F-35 is a perfect example...it's a project which they continue to dump titanic amounts of money…

Really interesting article and it hit points I definitely had questions about myself after watching the video.

However...