Hell yes. I know it’s weird, but I have a love of the Classic American Van, even have my own ‘84 Dodge sitting in the dirt half of my driveway waiting on a battery and a tuneup for this coming summer.

Another thing about Monopoly is that the rules are so loose and easily modifiable that people can internalize the rules (except the one rule nobody remembers about property auctions) and come up with variations on the fly to change things up.

“Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

I think Martha Stewart’s advanced level of chill makes her a pretty great example of vanilla, herself.

I think we’re on the same page with this, yeah. The real problem is the entire procurement and manufacturing system.

And that’s just part of the problem, yep.

Sometimes you’re better off not reinventing the wheel and just upgrading it instead, because the wheel does the job of being a wheel so well. 

Intelligence failure, not weapon failure. Yep.

There are a lot of ways we could make it more affordable to keep older aircraft flying, first and foremost of them being “Don’t eliminate the ability to build new ones when necessary until you have the replacement in deployment.”

It’s nice to want to think that way, but that’s not how war is measured. If success in war was measured that way by all sides, we wouldn’t have any war at all, but there’s always one side that’s willing to sacrifice lives to make war happen, which is how they all get started.

The worst way to revitalize a military is to spend all your funds on projects that are so terribly “designed by committee” that they can’t even perform basic tasks. The F-35 got so much mission creep in its design, that the entire initial premise of the plane got lost.

I tried, but I was in no condition to do it. In the first week of August, I was right up to the line of a suicide attempt, and wound up hospitalized for a weekend of observation. I was an absolute mess, and the last thing I could do was try and talk about Trump with my family at length.

There have been a few around me for sale in the last couple years, but not that many. And there aren’t any at all, now. Truly sad. I sold mine to a kid from Fiji back in early 2000. I hope it ran a long life beyond me.

My first car (at 24, not 16 sadly) was an ‘86.5 S12 hatch with the CA20E and I absolutely loved that little car. If I had the space and ability to acquire a nice one today, I probably would. It had great looks (IMO) ran well, could be repaired relatively easily, and had great visibility. Here’s a picture of mine the…

I actually had some people tell me that I came across as a know-it-all because I used capital letters and punctuation on IRC. That was the only thing they could point to.

I refuse to use text/message/chat “shorthand” unless it’s limited on text capacity, or for sarcasm. Whenever possible, I text from my desktop PC as well, and will definitely send a paragraph at a time. Information is key, information must be conveyed clearly and with as much skill as possible.

Any flub that she made could be reasonably expected to have been part of the script, Spicer is that fucking terrible.

Sounds a bit like the way the Phaeton’s air conditioner works, with the dash having panels that flip up to expose vents when the car cools down at first, and then when it’s maintaining the temperature the vent covers drop back down and the whole top of the dashboard is perforated to let this smooth breeze blow…

I wouldn’t say Cameron missed it, I’d say he just didn’t want to tell that kind of story. Alien had one tone, Aliens had a different one in contrast to what we often expect of sequels today. It’s hard for me to think of many sequels that take the thematic style of the first film and then so cleanly flip it on its head…

Stay classy. You’re doing the Don’s work there.