You should take a look at higher education. I’ve got a master’s degree and an assistant director job and I’m making less than $50K. I'm not saying this is good or right (especially when we're expected to put in overtime during crunch time), but rather that there are a lot of us with plenty of credentials and terrible…

I have a master’s degree and an assistant director title, and I make less than $50K in one of the more expensive cities in the Southeast. Nonprofits suck. For profits suck. The entire work culture in the United States sucks.

To be fair, the 86, while delightful, is anything but fast. A fantastic driver's car, but one with about as much horsepower as a gerbil. 

This right here. I could realistically send an accurate text message one handed without ever taking my attention away from whatever I was doing. I really miss those days.

I wasn’t aware that a Hyundai (or a Kia, for that matter) from the 90s could make it 5 years.

This is purely my own observation/opinion, but I think part of that might be due to the fact that, at that time, Kia had better styling and options. My mother was cross shopping an Optima and a Sonata around 5 years ago and while the Kia, in my opinion, was definitely the better looking car, it was also the better…

If my mother’s experience with her Kia Optima of that vintage is any indication, modern Hyundai/Kia cars are pretty rock solid. She’s currently sitting somewhere in the neighborhood of 150K miles, and it had absolutely no problems whatsoever until late last year. They noticed some increased oil consumption, took it to…

used cars that fall into the “under 100k mile, worth half what they were new” category are not quite a plentiful.

I was shopping for a new car a few months ago and it came down to a choice between a GTI and one of the remaining Focus STs. I thought the Focus was the better driver’s car, but I ended up pulling the trigger on the GTI. The interior definitely factored into the decision. I could’ve handled the... let’s just say…

Kentuckian here! There’s no way we’re ever going to be rid of McConnell, he’s like herpes.

The 9-2x would definitely not be a great choice in this situation, the Outback mentioned in the post is, mechanically, the same thing but with more space. Also, comfortable is not how I would describe an Impreza of that vintage. The seats are tolerable, at best (strangely, I found the rear seats more comfortable than…

To be fair, the turbo Subarus didn’t really have the headgasket issues. The interior quality is only slightly better than 90s GM and they do, in fact, guzzle oil at approximately the same rate as they do fuel, but those headgaskets are as solid as anything else you’ll find.

You want a Saab 9-7x (or any of the other dozen or so trucks on the platform). Either the V8 or I-6 engines will outlive us all, it’s reasonably comfortable for a proper, body on frame SUV, it has a deceptively cavernous interior, and, most importantly, they’re absolutely dirt cheap. My family has a Trailblazer that…

I’d argue that this intentional mess of a system makes perfect sense—various parts and functions of our government were cloistered off so that it would be difficult for any one group to take control of our government and lead it down an undemocratic road. On paper, it makes sense. Theoretically, this should…

Agreed. I’m not from Kansas, but from my observations it seems like the Republican Party there has been pulling some pretty egregious crap for some time now. The tax cuts and general dismantling of public institutions that occurred under Brownback’s tenure as governor come to mind. It’s all a big mess and really makes…

For what it’s worth, this is more or less the same kind of experience a lot of folks in the US have. I, for example, come from a very rural community where people are a lot more spread out. Because of this, state and community run locations make up almost the entirety of our polling locations. All of the elementary…

Technically speaking, if Trump were to be charged with something relating to all of his crap, it’s highly unlikely that it would be treason. As you can see in your link, treason is fairly narrowly defined in the constitution, and it’s just not a charge that I think (admittedly, I’m not a legal expert) anyone would try…

Wow... that last quote is something else.

I’ll more or less agree with you on the narcissistic stunt queen thing, but I feel like you’re not giving TR quite enough credit. Sure, some of his positions/behaviors are less than ideal when viewed from a modern perspective, and his behavior during the Spanish-American War (as well as his ardent support of military…

It was a nostalgia thing. When they introduced the 4 door variant of the first generation Pathfinder, they put the door handles in that location so that it looked more like a 2 door vehicle. That design feature just sort of stuck around on all of Nissan’s proper SUVs all the way up until their demise.