I used to rent a car every few months, because my family lived six hours away, with a five-mile bridge between me and them, and my only car has no doors and sometimes its wheels fall off and so forth. Most of my rentals were random Toyotas and Hondas and Nissans and VWs, and they were all some degree of “fine”. They…

“With vaccine mandate enforcement coming to New York City in September, we are approaching the end of This, at least here. In many other places, like Florida, they decided to stop trying a while ago, with disastrous results. I was walking back from work yesterday and overheard some guy on the street explaining to some…

You are free to value your time at $0, but don’t assume the rest of us do.

Tolls on 95 are already in discussion AFAIK, at least in Fairfield County; they’ll be “boothless” as with most new installations.

I think this is less a case of “baseball rules” and more “it looked better to the director”. It’s what I call the “pearl necklace effect”: A string of real pearls has each secured with a knot so that if the necklace ever breaks, you don’t lose all your pearls. But for a movie, many directors choose the cinematic…

Dottie definitely dropped the ball on purpose. There’s absolutely no way she would transfer the ball from her glove to her right hand while falling down otherwise. The catcher will have the ball in her glove to make the tag and only take it out afterwards to show the umpire that they still have it. Otherwise they’re…

Why don’t you just believe that it wasn’t on purpose? Dottie gave no quarter when telling the pitcher to throw Kit the high ones, so she wouldn’t have purposely dropped the ball. Kit was such a little ball of anger that no one could have held onto the ball after that collision. See, it’s easy if you try. Now Dottie’s…

Eh... in that linked video statement she goes all ‘Yay, vaccines!’ and then runs down a bullet point list of pretty much all the anti-vax talking points:

Neutral: Pre-pandemic, I thought I hated driving. Then things loosened up a few months ago, I started driving more, and discovered the depths of my hate have been dredged so deep the baleful eye of Satan looks back at you if you look down inside it too long.

Joking aside, everything I hate about driving really has…

Ken Jennings.  All they had to do was hire Ken Jennings.  

I forever wish every car had a night panel mode. I have hella sensory input issues and I remember riding in a coworker’s Saab one night after work and the effect of the reduced lighting was like coming up from underwater for a breath of fresh air. It felt so much more comfortable.

Isn’t Bialik anti-vax and I can’t think of a term to describe her not feminist views, that maybe, she shouldn’t be given more high profile positions than she already has?

I just re-read “Backlash” (read it the first time in the mid 90s) and I was gobsmacked about how little had changed, and how INTENSE the Reagan administration went all in on blaming women for what the administration was doing. So many parallels to now, and honestly sometimes cliches are cliches for a reason “Those…

I agree on this, kids should buy their own damn cars, though loans from Wells Father or Bank of MOMtreal are acceptable, especially if you’re one of those parents worried about safety features. A kid with their money on the line is a better driver than a kid that was gifted something.

I don’t find the story hard to believe because I don’t think a guy that stole a new Charger wouldn’t do that, I find it hard to believe simply because I don’t trust the police.

As a lifelong fan of track and field, and the Olympics, I think the problem is NBC doesn’t understand what they’ve actually got here. Another commentator articulated it wonderfully, that the Olympics are a sports program, yet NBC is intent on treating it like a reality show, and what that means in injecting all kinds…

Joan, sometime around this new year you mentioned in a longer (and maybe not even related) post that you were starting a sobriety journey. I’d been having a bad time and coping with alcohol, and it hadn’t occurred to me until I read your post that I could…just try to stop with the alcohol. I stopped and got help and…

Show some interesting or obscure sports without having to be up at 3am for it. Every time I check, it’s the “popular” (allegedly, but not so much, apparently) big-ticket items I’m kind of bored with. Everybody’s seen tons of swimming and soccer, let’s see some discus and hammer-toss. I finally had to dig into CBC’s on…

Funny - you missed the point completely. 

Couldn’t agree more.