Ira Glass is like the flip side of Click and Clack. His radio show is riveting and brilliant just like Car Talk, but one gets the feeling that it would be insufferable to have to spend any length of time with Ira Glass the person.

Which US built, US manufacturer premium station wagon should we all buy then? I can’t think of one - what am I forgetting?

The cop got a citation? Is this Altoona, Narnia?

How strange. That has not been our experience. Non-white doctors have been more open to listening to us when we talk about symptoms. They have also been more likely to remember things like drug allergies than white medical staff (we once had a nurse say “well, we can give you ampicillin, and if you go into shock, we…

Look. It’s why I called it my bigotry, and please don’t assume that my personal thoughts perfectly dovetail into anyone else’s here. I can’t speak for them.

Obviously not, which is why I said it was my personal bigotry having to do with working harder in the face of bigotry around them....I said this very clearly in the post.

Of course, the citation that the officer would receive would be this definition:

STOP RESISTING!

This has been my experience 100%. To the point where I hope for them.

With Altoona’s demographics and the fact that the other driver was named “John McConnell”, I’d put the chance of him being shot afterwards at something approaching zero.

As long as the cop said he was afraid then it’s A-OK.

My anonymous confession is This: I am white, and I am SO relieved when I am placed with a black or East Asian or really ANY doctor but white.

i’ll go ahead and blame the victim here.

He sounds like he was an amazing person. I’m sorry for all he suffered, amazed by his strength in the face of it and encouraged by his choice to go out on his own terms.

Thank you for posting this. Mr. Sasse was a guest on the Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me podcast and actually sounded fairly...reasonable. I stand corrected.

You know why you objected to what I wrote? Because you’re one of the dumb people, and you know it.

(sobs softly)

This wasn’t the only Soviet self-built/home-built sports car. There were several, going back as far as the 1930s.

This is America, Sir. The entire economy is based on people buying shit they don’t need with money they don’t have. Now, do your civic duty and go shopping.

Did he ever call?