This whole take is ridiculous. If I wrote this, I’d be ashamed to put my name on it.

Before a recent budget hearing on the National Science Foundation … Rep. Vernon Ehlers happened to bump into a Republican colleague. He informed Ehlers of his intent to whack the appropriation, grumbling, “NSF has no business funding automatic teller machines and gambling.” Fortunately, Ehlers, whose doctorate in…

This is just one of ten million examples of the amazing complexity of duties the government performs that get no glory, no PR, no credit but are really important. And yet we have people that want to eliminate the government, it’s boggling.

If you really want to hurt him, make him watch but not film...

Over 60 years ago, I was in a small town whose only two stoplights had a somewhat similar situation. Drivers on the “busiest” street saw a normal light pattern, while drivers on the cross streets saw an inverted pattern with green on the top. I was told that this was because the lights were all in one housing, instead…

As an indie mechanic (shop is at my home, but is also a licensed LLC, I have insurance, and also got ASE certified); I will go out of my way to not change the station/CD - will only turn down the volume if the job requires me to listen for some sort of noise.

I will leave the mirrors alone, but will be upfront that…

How much of it is corporate purchased housing?  Likely the same percentage as the shortage of needed housing.

It’s not just disgust, it’s also fear.

16 million empty houses in America.

Part of living in a society is having to do things you don’t 100% agree with for the good of everyone else. Getting vaccines. Wearing a mask when you get sick. Wearing your seatbelt. Wearing a goddamned helmet when you are riding a motorcycle.

My favorite story about these guys: The FL attorney that pushed FL to repeal its helmet law died in a motorcycle crash. And it wasn’t even someone else’s fault; he lost control of the bike while slowing down.

Is it just me, or did anyone else see the “hood open” picture as the car was somehow buried in a tree?  

No idea about the Norwegian wood. But I do build a lot of things out of Swedish chip wood. They hold up ok, as long as you don’t move it from where it was originally placed.

There’s Norway they didn’t properly Finnish the job. Investigate, take names, Denmark down all the engineers who OK’d it and banish them to Greenland.

Wow that truck must be huge to fit an entire Toyota Camry in the bed!

No criminal use because who would seek out a huge and heavy 50 caliber weapon when there are nearly limitless other options that kill just as well and cost thousands less.

As for 3 absolutely.

I agree. The other thing to consider is that some people struggle to make it through the TSA checkpointeven with a TSA agent barking commands and telling them how to do it. Now imagine those same people trying to do it on their own...good luck. 

I read a fiction novel, where terroists started bombing the security lines. Its a perfect vector now. Bags aren’t screened on entry to the airport - so a huge roller bag of c4 can come right into line - and there are often 1000+ people packed tightly waiting to get through a security bottleneck..

I just had to nitpick on this part of the article.