I agree it effects insurance company costs and therefore rates, but I very seriously doubt that if seat belt compliance reached 100% magically overnight that rates would drop. Outside of very consumable commodities (gas, milk, meat, travel) prices are not very sensitive to market forces.

I used to work for a major meat company in IT and got to spend a fair amount of time at beef processing plants. That exceptionally lean ground beef that health conscious people love to eat, they make it by putting the mostly trimmed bones through a machine that presses it off of the bone resulting in ‘hamburger’ that…

Braunschweiger Uber Alles!

You’ve done rice dishes with the Biryani that didn’t turn out so good. How about an Indian dish that might be perfect for this - Daal? I’ve been hesitant to make it at home because I worried about the lentils sticking and burning as they cook, so the Immersion method might make the safest Daal ever made. I’ve never…

What’s the average price per square foot in this neighborhood?

Just to clarify the Thomas Jefferson point sowed into that last tweet, at the time there was a law on the books that if you were in debt you could not set your slaves free as they must be sold to settle your debt. Jefferson was in debt and even died in debt. He wanted to set his slaves free, and wrote about that,…

Alright, when are we going to indict him for trying to rock a hairstyle not seen since Tim McGraw in Friday Night Lights? Gotta love the thinning + slicked + blowout at the back. That haircut screams ‘FOOTBAW IN TEXAS! WOOO!’

We had both our kids on HDHP’s. I did the math on it and it was actually cheaper for us to do it that way. The OBGYN checkups and lab work hit the deductible before the actual birth so that by the time we hit the delivery date, we either had a very small responsibility or none at all.

Nope - You’re all wrong. You want to get this right you get an AWD Toyota Sienna minivan.

effing this - bastards gave me salmonella about two months ago. Lost 12 pounds in four days.

Citation Needed!

If it’s real maple syrup, it should be in the fridge once opened. Check the label.

What did Jayson Williams ever do to you?!

Parent of two small kids who aren’t good sleepers. Haven’t had the items on the list above in four years. You’ve definitely got the high score compared to me, though. Yuck.

My Grandpa had the closest to what I think was his perfect death. He was 86, farmed all his life and made really good money for a farmer. Sold the farm to one of his grandsons, moved himself and grandma into a small house in the small town that they lived in. Six months later, took Grandma dancing one Sunday night…

That’s how I’m learning to come to terms with it. Frankly, once we die we are not here. The question that religion ventures into is where to we go but they all seem to fully agree with science that we are no longer inside this mortal coil.

There’s a good point to make with your statement. At our death, each of our personal world would have ended. The only place we have ever truly lived is inside our own heads, and that world will cease to function. A bit morbid or dark, but it’s the truth.

You don’t have to be an atheist to have that fear. I’m Catholic and the thought of eternal conscious nothingness can keep me up an night. But, if our ability to perceive ceases with life, then our ability to sense time or understand anything will be gone as well. So nothing-ness would be what happens then but you…

He took the ability to filibuster court appointments (save SCOTUS appointments) off the table for Senate confirmation.

I truly think you are right in pointing out that the real issue here has been the erosion of the power of the filibuster. I just keep hearing the quote from A Man for All Seasons about stripping down the laws of man in order to ‘get at the devil’ because the devil will then turn on you with nowhere for you to hide.