Not in CA where most of these things are and will be sold....and given how cost competitive natural gas and renewables have become/ are becoming, it’s not a stretch to presume that even in states that currently use more coal in electric plants to produce electricity, those equations will change.

But the irony is that the Harvards of the world often do a much BETTER job in term of accepting/admitting and graduating African American students. If you look at their latest numbers for the incoming Freshman class, it’s hard to be critical on that score alone. The bigger problem are the big, “middle-level”…

I’d like to see a clear cut case of that level of cultural bias in the verbal aptitude section of modern SAT tests because I would immediately drop it into my classroom lecture on the inequities of SAT tests....but I’ve yet to actually find one. You hear these stories every so often. Version I’ve heard most recently…

College professor here, I study academic outcomes, have focused on under-represented and historically disenfranchised groups, and are FULLY supportive of affirmative action. In fact, I wish it was more comprehensively and aggressively applied. Plenty of empirical evidence that a diverse campus benefits all students,…

Perhaps this is implied in how we we are defining “driver”, but for a typical driver, driving on typical roads, I would consider oversteer as a bigger problem than understeer, which is why—-as has often been reported—-automakers have baked in understreer in most cases. On track days, sure, understeering is more of a…

Long post, but need to vent a bit because I am a genuine fan of Cadillacs CTS and ATS offerings. I realize that sedan sales are down in general, as people keep buying cross-overs and SUVs, but Cadillac has to take considerable blame for CTS and ATS sales numbers. Here’s my experience. After a lot (several months)…

Long post, but need to vent a bit because I am a genuine fan of Cadillacs CTS and ATS offerings. I realize that sedan sales are down in general, as people keep buying cross-overs and SUVs, but Cadillac has to take considerable blame for CTS and ATS sales numbers. Here’s my experience. After a lot (several months)…

Yo Ghost—long response but I have a lot of personal empathy, so figured I’d try to be helpful. This may not be the answer you were hoping for, but you are probably at the stage where you need a good exterminator. I tried everything I personally could after it became clear that rats had gotten into our stand-up…

Trust me, I don’t expect boxing to change anything. There’s hardly a sport that is willing to stick to something “just because.” But there’s no reason that refs couldn’t more consistently follow one set of rules, or more aggressively sanction boxers who try to push it by pulling their short halfway up their abdomen…

I’ve seen that too, and I’ve seen that not done, and I’ve seen everything in between. That’s part of the problem. A general lack of consistency. And that reminds me that you don’t see this problem nearly as often in MMA fights because the groin protectors are so much more fitted (while still apparently functioning…

I completely appreciate that a low blow is technically defined as blow below belt line (although I know some refs take a more conservative take and count anything below the navel as a low blow)...but this is the problem with low blows in boxing...especially if you are going to argue that it’s a true shot to the nuts…

Great recommendation Tom. I am close to pulling the trigger on this. Test drove the 14' and 15' models, unbelievable steering feel and handling. Motortrend went gagga over this car in their tests and comparos. Only thing I would add is that the cabin interior is not Audi/MB/Lexus quality, and there is considerable…

HA! I missed your comment, I just posted that this was a pretty good single leg take-down/ transition to side mount

That was an excellent single leg take-down/ transition to side mount.

Ha! Actually I’ve been in a strip club once in a my life. My dad’s restaurant, where I essentially spent most of my teenage years when not in school, shared a wall with a Hell’s Angel’s bar and on our other side, slightly offset, was a strip club (The Candy Cat II if memory serves). I was in our shated parking lot…

Yes. And in my experience the times it turned into anything even close to a fight was once in my memory, and that even in that situation there were other precipitating factors that led up to an actual altercation. Every other time, they might jaw back, try to defend themselves by saying just kidding, take it easy,…

I get that....I do. But in public places with lots of people you would be surprised by how direct attention toward that kind of behavior shuts people up. Even just saying....”that’s not cool” can work wonders and make that dude think about his behavior and possibly self-reflect a bit.

Not picking on you at all because you seem like a good dude....but those were opportunities (especially the first case you describe) to say something. Something aggressive, something along the lines of “Go Fuck Yourself, perv.” followed up with a a clear description of how the next few seconds could involve the…

Friend, if you think that anyone (you, me, Popovich) earned anything all by ourselves with neither help nor hindrance from the social, political and economic context within which we grew up, then you aren’t thinking hard enough about your own life or anyone else’s. And furthermore, if you think that being born of a…

Hey Jason, I thought the 2017s got a small increase in horsepower and torque (from April 6th Jalopnik post-”the face-lifted 2017 Audi S3 gets a slight power bump from its turbo 2.0 liter 4-cylinder, now up to 305 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque...”