How deep is this rivalry here? Are we talking Ravens vs Steelers bad or even worse? This level of violence seems quite OTT.

I had no idea this made it over to the US market.

Being poor and living in an unsafe place doesn’t make you eligible for asylum. If that was the case over a billion people worldwide would qualify. If these people were really fleeing the “gang violence” in Central America they’d be fine with the relative safety of Mexico. That doesn’t seem to be good enough though. The…

By your standard, any poor person that lived in a dangerous place would qualify for asylum. That’s over a billion people worldwide. We can’t throw our borders open to all of them. That bar is just too low. We have laws that restrict the number of refugees we can integrate for a good reason. While the cap might be open…

I’m hardly saying that everything this administration is doing is the only alternative to open borders. I just feel there’s a sensible middle ground between the everybody should be allowed in and the no brown people views that define the extremes of the debate. That middle ground starts with an acceptance that we…

Any martini livery is good but I’m also partial to the black and orange McLaren Honda livery from 2015. Shame the car was so rubbish.

I’m a naturalized immigrant and a social liberal but it constantly frustrates me that many parts of the activist left seem to be unable to straight up say that you can’t let each and every person move here regardless of their circumstances. Its a legitimate grievance thats been hijacked by populists and racists the…

Just goes to show that like a broken clock, even the Trump disaster can get things right once in a while. This policy will deter future mass migration events and hopefully give Mexico a breather from having to care for all these people. There’s a difference between genuine refugees fleeing active war zones and…

She’s not wrong. Donald Trump is a loathsome, horrible human being and there’s little doubt his immigration policies are guided by racism but there’s a legitimate grievance around immigration in the world that helps people like him win elections. Simply put, we can not let everybody that wants to live in the United…

No 2.0T option? That’s the best engine in the current lineup imo.

No MacOS, no interest from me. After being switched to a fully loaded Surface Pro as my work laptop I’ve come to see it as the perfect portable computing device. Nothing comes close to its full fat desktop OS in a tablet form factor. I’m a mac guy at home and much prefer MacOS over Windows 10 but it’s frustrating to…

Excellent post and spot on. This is all Donald Trump has ever had to offer. It all makes sense when you consider his raging case of NPD. Donald Trump never ran to be the POTUS. He has no interest in the job or doing it. He ran to be Donald Trump with the ability to get the sort of 24x7 attention his psyche craves. He…

The thing with politics pre 2016 was that we could fundamentally agree that even if we disagreed with Romney or Obama or McCain or Bush or Kerry on politics, they were fundamentally decent people who wouldn’t try to attack the very basis of our system. Trump is not at all a decent person and things have changed…

This is the correct take as long as the Dems don’t eff it up and move to the far left. The suburban wipeout for congressional Republicans to moderate, well funded Democrats is exhibit A for what the future could look like if they’re smart about things.

Nice to see IAH on the list. They’ve done loads of work to make terminals C and E really world class in terms of facilities and food/drink options. They still have to improve the international departures terminal D (the lounges are seriously a joke) and there’s nothing they can do to fix the enormous distances most…

Florida. Why isn’t that surprising?

This is definitely more of a thing. Sonic in particular go with a no haggle price on all their used or cpo cars. That doesn’t mean you can’t negotiate though. I bought a CPO 2018 E63S AMG this year and eventually paid the asking price. What I did get a significant uplift on was my trade in M4 and a few dealer coverage…

As tired as I am seeing Hamilton win, I must concede that he really deserves this title. Ferrari is at worst as fast as the Mercedes and for the first time in the turbo hybrid era, the Mercedes is clearly the slower car in a straight line. Vettel lost the championship because he kept making errors that could have been…

Ditto. I grew up in England and have spent a lot of summer vacation time driving all over Europe where it’s easy to national stereotype by the standardized EU license plate. The Germans are a little too good for their own good. They will follow the rules and the signage to the point of standing out in traffic and…

I like the concept and the attitude they took to push out the proverbial boat on design but I’m not sure I like the way the rear end has come together. Jaguar executed this much better on both the XJ220 and the bond villain concept they did a few years back.