I see the Specialized logo in that car picture and Hayden’s bike match up. Wrap it up boys, I think we found our suspect car.

Here, this is much better.

Honestly, those Aventadors just remind me of overdone iPhone cases. Like if OtterBox designed a car cover. That Cobra though...

Oh my god, so many crackers in our car. We’d have candy too, but that gets found months later and eaten.

My kids are not allowed to eat in my leather upholstered BMW. Our minivan though? It’s like a Las Vegas buffet.

Every argument has assumptions and leaps... I’m not one to deny reality.

Fine, last point: Agreed, lots of variables. But one stat is up and the other stat is down. You said that by looking at gun stats you see that increasing prisoners don’t work. Well, gun violence is down (a lot) for some reason. So, either (1) increasing prisoners works, (2) they are completely not correlated…

My physics profs would be proud that I got that immediately.

Thanks, but I’m highly aware of the difference. Show me the data from the experiment that can establish causation, and I’ll happily cite that instead. There’s a reason I said “guessing” and “probably,” and made an argument for causation rather than just citing a study. I’m commenting on a blog, not running a $10…

I’m not making a pro-gun argument, so ignore the firearm ownership parts. Gun violence could be lower, but it is way down.

I mean this seriously: what do you think the gangs are fighting over if not drugs? My understanding is that gangs are basically economic organizations for illegal crime. Gangs aren’t like the Rotary Club. They are usually fighting over drug distribution (or other illegal stuff) turf, or so I thought. Didn’t know…

I’m also this kind of “rich.” This is basically progressive tipping, and I think most people are a-okay with it (I certainly am). Why folks then decry progressive taxation as somehow “unfair” never made sense to me. Some of us can afford it more. It’s like the rich in this country invited their poor college friends…

“Oh? Does it? How is the murder rate in Chicago these days? (762 murders in 2016.)“

I don’t think it’s the drug dealers that are so much the concern as the violence that tends to follow them around. Thoughts on this? Genuinely curious Locking up drug dealers, who tend to shoot people, seems to work.*

Do you even split stock, brah?

was convinced to hold onto a Ford Focus instead of selling it for $10k in Google stock right after the Google IPO. It was not the right decision, but Google then was in the $50-$80 range and $800 now, so at least the Focus only cost me about $100k. Most reliable $100k car though.

It’s the public performance aspect of this that is horrifying. Poor girl; bad parents. I plan on pranking my daughter when she’s out of diapers... but that’s intra-family fun.

I have literally had to call up contractors and other service people who refuse to talk to just my wife to tell them that my wife is explicitly authorized to make decisions on our behalf in my absence. It’s so weird that in 2017 I have to make it clear to people that my wife can make decisions without her husband’s…

See my comment above. That’s crazy talk. And I’m a bike commuter.

I was under the impression that it was essentially uncontroversial that the viaduct HAD to be torn down (because a dangerous blight). The only controversy was what to replace it with. I think only some hard core lefty environmentalists thought not replacing it was a good idea. And I say this as a bicycle commuter,…