If that isn’t confusing enough, for those fortunate enough to have enough investment/retirement assets to spread across 401(k), Roth (traditional or Roth 401(k), and non-qualified (i.e., taxable) accounts, the choice of the specific assets to place into each account has similar tax implications. For example, an asset…

I love Range Rover, and yes, the design may grow on me, but as a gent of “a certain age” (old), the first thing that came to mind when I saw the new design was “Bruno Sacco Mercedes S-class”, and I don’t mean that in a complimentary way. Can a luxury car be TOO smooth, so much so to lose character? I guess we’re going…

100%. A bad idea made manifest. Heck yeah.

Yes, I think there should be accommodations made for the indiscretions of ignorant youth, but no one legit believes that a kid of modest means from a lower-income urban home would have gotten anywhere close to the same treatment. So no, this is a BS verdict.

Interesting. It had been my impression that arching the back isn’t so much about the back, but instead it changes the relative position of the pecs so as to recruit and align more of the pectoralis muscle fibers relative to the humerus’ to maximize the contraction, and thus lift. Then again I may be seriously…

Sometimes the obvious answer is also the correct answer.

100%. When I have the occasion where I have to listen to someone drivel on about how and why they do a particular workout and why it’s oh so much better than such and such, my mind wanders back to a scene from the movie “American Beauty” where Kevin Spacey cuts to the chase and says, “I want to look good naked”. That…

Funny you should mention the Leaf, because almost all your considerations on behalf of the MX were the ones we used when we leased our Leaf (with the smaller battery). We did indeed get the tax credit (deducted in full from the lease cost), and while more spartan than the Mazda, for exclusively in-town use it was fun…

• ““You look great.” Full stop.” As a guy, this is nearly foolproof. Keep it simple, keep you out of trouble.

This: “Going out for lunch at work is great—if you can reasonably afford it—because it lets you get the hell out of there, and that’s worth the expense.”

While I’m definitely not a ‘vette fanboy, I think GM really hit it out of the park with the C8 (all versions). It’s outrageous in a quintessential ‘merican way, and I love them for it. Okay, one weird nitpick. The whole row of buttons along the center console is...strange. But that brings to mind an old and…

From the pictures it looks like the Bronco Sport was better prepared than the unbelted driver. Yet another checkmark in the plus column for fully autonomous cars.

This read convinced me that, if I were buying a new 911, it’d be the base “stripper” model (an oxymoron if there ever was one). I don’t (ever) need the extra horsepower, alcantara is fine by me, and the base horsepower is several hundred more than I can safely use. Honestly, even with the base powerband, rowing…

I bet the Breville is great (I have a few of their coffee/espresso makers and love them), but I went with a Cosori 12-in-1 that was a little cheaper, maybe a touch bigger (for frozen pizza), and just as powerful, and love it. I don’t use it for baking but, unlike the dedicated air fryers, most countertop convection…

I’ve actually found that’s NOT true for frozen pizza, the warm up time gives the frozen crust time to thaw and that in turn can make it soggy, or certainly less crispy. I preheat the oven in addition to using a pizza stone (preheated as well). Then I put the pizza straight from the freezer to the pre-heated oven with…

Re #3, I think it’s super important to distinguish “soreness” from “pain”. I view soreness as not point-tender, a more “my muscles ache”, than exercise-related pain, like “my knee hurts and is swollen” or “what’s this new lump in the middle of my bicep?”. Those are ‘get to the doctor’ kind of things, and people…

I’ve pretty much always been a fan, he’s a fantastic driver and fans have pretty much gotten to watch him “grow up”. Diva? He’s been frickin’ world champion multiple times. And this? Heck, he can diva all he wants as far as I’m concerned.

Agreed. The pictures look clean and if someone spent the time, money, and effort on the stated upgrades he/she was paying attention to a car that required attention. Yea, maybe $22k is too much, but not by much. Go less than $20k and it’d probably sell quickly.

Happy to pile on, it’s the American drivers. We have essentially no standards for which one can get a license, and once granted are almost impossible to revoke. Combine that with a woefully misplaced sense of “American exceptionalism” and you have a populace that thinks the open road is theirs and theirs alone. And…

I want to believe that Bob Chapek meant not disrespect with his earlier comments, you don’t get picked by Bob Iger to lead Disney if you’re an idiot. At the same time, I do also hope he has a sense of humor, ‘cause if I were his friend I’d be roasting his ass over how well Shang-Chi has done this weekend.