Jean Todt: “We’ve got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentleman! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately, immediately! Harrumph, harrumph!”

“He essentially wants Republicans to defy the laws of physics and deliver a plan that’s cheaper, covers more people, is voluntary, and makes America great again, I guess.”

You do know how voting works, right? That the result of an election is the aggregate of each individual’s voting behavior? Because each and every person who gets a pass on voting for a racist shitmonger because they tip the black mailman (he’s “one of the good ones” you know) adds up to, well, exactly what we got.

Either.

Sedan or Coupe? My 2000 V6 Coupe is on her last legs (approaching 200k) and I have been inconsolable since I learned there will be no new ones to take her place

Things got a little...strange...downwind from Chernobyl...

Whelp, statistically there had to be one person in the world who didn’t think the back half of BSG was a complete shitshow. Based on those same statistics, though, I’m amazed he’s an English-speaker.

I would argue that the players essentially are the product in sports- they and their actions are what you are rooting for (or against). Pro team sports in the US are predicated on the idea that fans get emotionally invested in the success or failure of complete strangers. Which is fine, but it means the actions of…

I asked this question of my die-hard Chiefs fan friend when they drafted Tyreek ‘Strangled His Pregnant Girlfriend’ Hill.

I get that as a sports blogger, you traffic in hyperbole. But seriously, “single most impressive feat of the NHL’s modern era”? It’s not even the most impressive feat of the last 18 months.

You better put sarcastiquotes around “plot”

I’m going with the Notre Dame/Cubs combo. Plus, there’s nothing like a white football player choosing baseball to give the Old White Dude baseball writers their semi-annual Tiny Turgid Erection. See Tebow, Tim.

Yeah, that’s...problematic. Although journalism has always had a problem balancing full accuracy versus a story that will sell papers/get people to watch/start a war with Spain.

Reporting rates for molestation are notoriously low- there is a reason it can take 10 or 20 (or more) years for instances to come to light. “Complicated area of study“ doesn’t tell the half of it.

“More fun” not “funner”

I don’t take it as gospel, but a buddy who has reason to know suggested that the 10-point-but-really-10-or-nothing survey system is largely about the manufacturer putting a carrot out for dealers and their employees (incentives!) but making them extremely difficult to meet (not actually having to pay out!)

I was/am the same way. Coping Strategies (in descending order of importance):

It is refundable. And it probably was calculated to get a wider potential customer base than if they had demanded a higher number like your $10k. Among other things, it means that 10 people would have to change their mind and ask for a refund to lose the same amount of money that would result from one fickle person in…

You mean .45. No, wait, 3.1. Nope, .00004....

Because you can’t fit any ponies in a Porsche? I mean, maaaaybe one of those little miniature ponies IF you have a Cayenne.