I’m in the US and my town has 4 recently-built roundabouts (with 2 more on the way) and it’s been... not great. Mostly because people are idiots. It’s like they come to this unfamiliar circular piece of road and everything they know about how to drive just vanishes from their heads. Most people come to a complete stop…

Oh I can assure you, drivers here can’t figure out roundabouts either, and there are a fair number in older towns like in DC.  For all the noise we make about cars, we’re shit drivers.

Most drivers are outrageously terrible to the point that they probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive. This is just a reality that transcends age, gender, race and class. This is why defensive driving is so important.

It is.

Sometimes Twitch reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy”.

My idea.

Everyone was convinced I would be the one to break the glass ceiling for American women and girls. Nobody doubted my victory. The election seemed a mere formality. But Fate and Vladimir Putin had other ideas.

But that’s water under the bridge.

I conceived this week’s Clinton Foundation meeting because it’s time…

Yep, that’s pretty similar to how they manage the Mississippi, basically one pilot ‘owns’ a certain river bend and that’s all he does for any ship coming through.  Mad money in it.

The canal has been free of Colonialist interference since the end of the fifties, famously so, it breaking free was the final act in the long downfall of the British Empire. Upkeep and running since then has been Egyptian concerns.

I’ve been through the Suez Canal many times. It doesn’t have locks. The ship isn’t grounded due to shallow water, it’s grounded because it’s turned sideways in the relatively narrow waterway.

That’s an interesting point. I work with (read that: deliver to) ships coming up the Columbia river, and we watch the Columbia River Pilots board to see when they are arriving/departing. In the case of the Columbia there are at least two different pilots that are used. One comes on board at sea to bring the ship into…

Their main objection? It put barriers between men convicted of domestic violence and their ability to buy a gun.

I’m no psychologist but maybe people shooting other people is bad and we should possibly think about limiting the devices that people use to shoot each other?

Certainly makes it more obvious that the canal itself is already full as well. Welp, thanks for confirming I'm not wise in the ways of nautical freighting.

Only parts of canals have locks. This is not one of those parts. (And running ‘aground’ in a lock would likely destroy the lock and thus the entire canal)

Why does Barack Obama do this?

The projection is strong with this one. 

Oh, okay, he only stole a $120k car. Totally normal!

The Flying Spur isn’t a particularly special car. By all measures, it’s pretty ubiquitous within its segment.

“If you bring me the car I'll give you $3K." - Man with $5000 deductible. 

As a Maryland ex-pat in PA, I can be truly impartial on this debate and declare that the best of the pair is Royal Farms.