This is a great development, because from now on, for all eternity, whenever someone tries to claim that celebrities who write books don’t get special treatment, that Madonna or James Franco or whoever totally earned those publishing deals, there will be a two word rebuttal that immediately causes the claimant to…
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In other words: “I don’t wanna oppose an assault weapons ban but you’re forcing them to by proposing one.”
This is basically the only thing I’ve ever read that makes off-roading seem like it might be fun. Generally it seems to come in a couple varieties: a) jeeps that creep over boulders at slower-than-a-walking-pace while four spotters standing around the car direct the driver about which path to take, b) absurdly…
This is really the government’s fault because if they would just spend multi-trillions of dollars revamping every road in the country and completely rebuilding all of our cities, this wouldn’t happen. Why oh why won’t the government simply invest trillions of taxpayer dollars rebuilding everything so that Uber can…
I starred this essay, because to not do so would be to censor it and reverse the Enlightenment.
A lot of people seem to be saying if you want there to be manual transmission cars, you have to buy them. I’m curious: how many new cars do I have to buy per year in order to have that opinion?
“feel incredible believable.” This seems a little weird as a point of praise. A movie about my visit to the grocery store may well be incredible believably—”The story is based closely on real life; I feel like this person probably really did go to the grocery store at one point!”—but that doesn’t necessarily make…
Physically brutal huh? Clearly you survived to write this note, so I’m glad you were able to get to the ER or somewhere to have your injuries treated.
“I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself. It was therefore a great pleasure to contrast Scipio’s ways with our own. Think, in this tiny bath the “terror of Carthage,” to whom Rome should offer thanks because she was not captured more than once, used to bathe a body wearied…
C’mon, everybody knows sports cars with less than 500 hp are for sissies and don’t sell. Sports cars with 1,000 hp that cost a million dollars, on the other hand, are flying off the lots.
I will never understand why they went with the blacked-out roof and A-pillars. Very, very few cars ever look good with blacked-out A-pillars. Didn’t anybody in the design process say something like: “You do realize that it means there’ll be a narrow strip of body-color metal awkwardly cantilevered over the side…
The best logos tend to be ones that never change. BMW and Mercedes may have logos are really only adequate, but the confidence that comes from keeping a logo for a hundred year makes them special. It’s like, “We don’t follow what is cool, we make what is cool.” That’s why the better logos tends to be from countries…
This is really going to suck the oxygen out of the room for my own start-up, Frankenfood.
What does the title mean? Like, I guess someone gets redeemed, and he’s also dead and red? Is his deadness and redness what redeemed him, or are those things coincidental? Or is it redemption itself that is dead and red? How can an abstract concept have a color or be dead? Or does the redness refer to something…
This paragraph about the genesis of the Bradley is misleading. Yes, it was intended to be a replacement for earlier APCs, but in the sense that “Evil Dead 2" was a replacement for “The Evil Dead”—it was to do what they did, but also improve on them. It was designed as a response to the Soviet BMP-1, which showed…
So apparently, per McConnell, he’s giving the Democrats a Sophie’s choice—they can save either CHIP or DACA but not both. So Democrats better decide which one they want to save, because if they don’t choose one McConnell will kill them both and then it will be all the Democrats’ fault
I’ve taken that trip, and since there are two legs of about 25 hours each, a good deal of it takes place at night. What happens in this video when the train’s traveling during the approx. 12 hours of darkness per leg?
Jeez, why’d they make the grille so small? It’s like they want to sell it only to women and curly-haired men. News flash to Chrysler: grille = masculinity.
For some reason, “I know what I have” is always a declaration that the seller won’t budge on price. I’d rather see people use the phrase to say the opposite, like, “I know what I have is a total POS, I’ll field any offer, I’ll take it just as long as it’s money.”