The guy ran the stop sign because the brakes on a vehicle that recently failed an inspection and was supposed to be off the road failed. The length of the vehicle in and of itself didn’t contribute to the crash, but the added mass related to the lengthening process and the added capacity of the vehicle definitely did.

Pure fire. Might consider changing the punctuation in the quote to clarify that 6 white coaches are being hired and 2 black coaches are being fired. As it is it reads more like there are 6 white coaches and 2 black coaches being hired.

Goddammit another misleading headline: totally thought this was going to be a Mr. Robot style hijack and am disappointed it’s just workaday folks doing good things for strangers. Borrrring!

The USPS gets $0 in taxpayer money. The USPS is, since its creation, self-supporting. 

GM never should have gotten bailed out. No private company should get bailed out. If they actually had to face the risks, they would have run their company better. But the fact that they were labeled as “too big to fail” for years gave them far too much leeway to let their company go sideways. There would have been…

GM got bailed out. Now its time to shut shit down because the profit monster wants its due. GM is going to die. Because that’s what the market wills. And woe betide those who insist it stay alive if you are a capitalist at heart. Because from this path no good will come.

The trend towards using eminent domain to facilitate private initiatives is quite troubling. I can understand airports, but factories or hotels?

They are good vehicles. Problem is more form factor than innate design. I expect more new hybrids like the MB 48 volt turbo/supercharged systems in an SUV or truck form factor will be better sellers than a small sedan though. For the forseeable future.

This is what Mazda does. It makes cars with spec sheets that just don’t look like much, and that don’t really come out ahead of any of their competitors on any metric... Then you drive one and you end up in love and don’t really even know why. They just feel right. It’s kind of strange.

no?... the hybrid part is solely to smooth out the edges of the gas engine, and quicken linear acceleration. The gas engine itself is what produces diesel-like fuel economy.

No one is forcing anyone to buy something they can’t afford. And I’m not talking about predatory practices from lenders or shady dealers, that is a whole other story.

“The Red Sox would never spit on their fans the way the Yankees are,” Lang says.

The Yankees have an enormous budget obviously, but Cashman really doesn’t get enough credit for finding guys like Voit or Didi. Its amazing any team is willing to trade with the Yankees.

You’re right; he said/she said is NOT “proof.” But such allegations ARE serious enough, regardless of the “timing,” to warrant an INDEPENDENT, NONPARTISAN agency to investigate them; which the Senate is not. Kennedy’s empty SCOTUS seat isn’t going to magically “disappear” any time soon, and we’re nowhere near the 11…

“Well, it’s a tough thing going on. If you can be an exemplary person for 35 years, and then somebody comes and they say you did this or that,...

Unfortunate that she was standing so close, but of course hindsight is 20.

“The NBC theme song for the football game was the last thing, other than some personal words from his wife, he heard before the transplant.”

Lauren,

I’ll say it again: these didiots are only behaving this way because of the message and skin tone of the messenger. I love it because the facade is officially over (we black folk always knew it was a facade, now the public at-large knows).

On this day, let us also remember Laura Wagner’s email account, and pray for the Dead Letters which await us. Amen.