stop pretending to be puritans

No, you are completely wrong on this. The crossover is the best thing. It has most of the carrying capacity of an SUV but without the mileage and handling penalties, and the handling and mileage of a family sedan without the cramped confines and storage penalties. Crossover is a perfect compromise, and look better…

a burner phone <snip> Take the photos then destroy it. I mean, I guess they could pinpoint who was around at the time the photo was taken, but if the cameraphone

I’ve never heard the myth that darker skinned people don’t get skin cancer, but I have heard the myth that “tan == skin damage” (see comment from HappyBerry) ... again, I understand that pale northerners (I’m of Mediterranean descent) have a harder time with UV damage than darker people, but the myth I am most…

Stay in the shade and wear hats and clothes

maybe it has to do with road injuries being in the top 10 causes of death globally

not just crash safety. Road handling is compromised <snip> complete lack of rollover protection ...

The point is, as this video provides strong evidence, they shouldn’t have the authority.

what should be a government job

sending yahoos with guns and no legal authority to capture fugitive for money sounds like [a] recipe for disaster

why are there TWO fuselages?

analogy is Okinawa is to Japan as Hawaii is to the US

Panama was pretty much the first of our modern-era experiments in “regime change” ... the U.S. never declared war, hence we were never “officially” at war with them.

Chalk it up to dark humor, but as I was a Marine back in the 1980's when we were all a tad bit worried about nuclear annihilation being just around the corner, and situations like Beirut, Panama and Grenada simply did not register as an existential threat. We didn’t consider events like those to be “war”.

Huh? We had no “wars” at all in the 1980's and the only thing worth calling a war during those 2 decades was the liberation of Kuwait (operation Desert Storm which occurred in 1990). Everything else was minor brush fires and light housekeeping, aka Business As Usual.

When have we not been at war? Honestly, clarify.

they really need to either drop one, or differentiate the things

In Northern Cali HOV lanes are free to enter and exit at any point and are time delimited ... i.e., they are restricted to HOV use only during certain times, and outside of those times anybody can use the lane. In the Sacramento area it only takes 2 people instead of 3 to qualify for HOV during metered times.

Thanks for linking/quoting that interesting tidbit ... I was gonna post a similar thought but not based on any expert scientific experiments, just that based on observing the video guy trying to dissolve a quarter cup of sugar in 16 ounces of gasoline indicated that sugar doesn’t dissolve well in gasoline. Leads me to…

I had a 2010 Pontiac Vibe (Toyota Matrix->hatchback Toyota Corolla) and the car accelerated by itself no less than 7 times in less than a year of ownership.