Good, just as long as Roland isn’t played by a black guy Idris Elba. He’s great but he was terrible for that role because [unspecified reasons]. Heritage not hate!

“well-timed zinger about an old TV show or a recent movie”

Apparently, re-creating the working conditions of 1930's Soviet Union is now SOP in our glorious capitalist future, comrade.

This is the “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” incident of our generation.

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…

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…

“immersive virtual reality system”

I think that’s what Pol Pot used to say when he was in the jungle after losing power, “At least I tried to *do* something.” Yeah, but... maybe he shouldn’t have?

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.

It seems kinda stupid that there’s a big shimmering wall that demarcates the “zone.” It just seems like it’s better the way they did it in “Stalker,” where here it’s normal, and a few miles over there things get weird, but there’s no literal wall separating them.

None of the Enterprises have ever made any sense, because the engines are not symmetrical around the midline. It’s like if a airplane had two engines, it would not be good for both to be on the far tip of one wing with nothing on the right wing. Now a boat sits in the water and turns right or left but not up or…

“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…

I’m glad that guns are doing such a good job of keeping the country free of tyranny, otherwise I might be kinda annoyed at the Republican Party for steadfastly opposing all measures to regulate them. Thanks, guns.