this is a good essay- but I would urge you to dig even deeper Oh Respected One.... when you arrive on the planet , the instant you can discern a message- visual or auditory- in this culture you are told : “you are not enough as you are, little one. You need to buy this thingy. this concept. THAT is what will instantly …

“Waitaminute....you tellin’ me ya can’t smoke one of these? I am so outta here...”

Goshdarnitall....if those pesky scientists were REALLY any good they would have warned us! .......oh.......wait .......”Scientists have warned that the world’s most commonly used inert gas is being depleted at an astonishing rate because of a law passed in the United States in 1996 which has effectively made helium…

seems like your info needs an update.....Dad had a Simca. Circa late 50-early 60s when stationed in Germany. Loved it so much he gave serious thought to bringing it back to Ft Sill. Kept on having kids so ended up with a big fin typewriter tranny Dodge station Wagon.... he eventually had an Austin Mini and later a…

oh - but it’s still those 5 and 6 figure income scientists who are REALLY conspiring to fool ya about global warming.... [American Exceptionalism: choosing one’s own hyper stupidity]

Anarchy. [and the fact that the “NBA” may have one or two more large hunanoids that often talk into a mic...but gosh- our limited budget....]

“That meteor due to strike in a few months.? Oh you libtards......pfft- it’ll leave us with oodles of cheap iron and just think how nice the surfing will be....hope it hits us so those nasty Chinese don’t get anything....”

or you got a cousin Methlip who just might be the next Hannibal Lecter and who wouldn’t want to be first to get the “um bail$$ ?” 2AM text?

mixing half coca- cola and half starbucks Frappuccino can get you from Ohio to Colorado and if your luck holds you might AM / Uecker your way thru the night...

good article- thanks. I am still one of the unconvinced - unlike airlines, autonomous cars will have to decide on the size and ethics of objects to avoid. Here in the west USA, that starts from the obvious: Bear, Elk , Moose, Big Horn, Humans....begins to get a bit hazy at : coyote, deer [esp fawns], smaller…

I recommend this WaPo editorial to get a far more nuanced view of the “top agency couldn’t find anything” narrative..what a relief - nothing that would stand up in a court of law?....”Lunching daily with the Mafioso John Gotti would not have been prosecutable, either, but nobody would turn over their life savings to…

I laughed! and then I thought of the 36% of Americans who would believe him. ...dammit- even our humor is so fucked with....

A] mobile homes are a very cheap initial investment to get into rentals- I have some - it works.

well well well - international cooperation to counter a global threat. See how easy that is kids?

A] Nice intro to the draft - there IS a whole lot of “nope- I won’t be doing THAT - anymore or even once “ as we get older and glory days are bound to sneak up on all of us....

Gimmee some o dat ‘ol time natural selection , gimmee some o dat....

no- in a capitalistic economy advertising provides the marketing impetus to manipulate the consumer into confusing wants and needs.  All simply based on the notion that one is ‘not enough’ unless one purchases “x”.....

at one particularly grim stage in my life I was given one that had been “driven over something kinda bad”.... after the first set of tires wore right into the steel cords in under a hundred miles, I melded the truck with another wrecked Rabbit. It got me thru many months of driving over Independence Pass each weekend…

LaVeta pass first- is a good plan- its a moderate grade and not too many hairpins and there’s a small town at the top that likely has a parts store and plenty of places to buy those gallon oil jugs.... Wolf Creek , OTOH .....[at least it mostly has guard rails and passing lanes nowadays] but if ya miss “that “ curve…

I’m not scared- you’re scared. But really- my buddy’s 16 year old kid just built a 3D CNC milling machine from online parts and you tube videos. I gotta believe there’s an east asian kid all set to deconstruct one of these puppies [I know I know ...] and I’m kinda thinkin the price point will be a bit below that $100,0…