That’s the thing, right? We love a story where plucky folks rally together and figure stuff out on their own, but our appreciation of that ingenuity often obscures the systemic failures that made that work necessary. Yes, it’s awesome that LOCAL RESTAURANT PAYS OFF ALL SCHOOL LUNCH DEBT FOR PRESCHOOLERS, but why is…

Literally millions and millions of people who love smoking can’t all be wrong, regardless of what you kids think. Not my idea of a good time, but my sainted mother LOVES smoking. She is much too cheap to spring for filters.

The LM002!

I’m going to have to disagree a little - the back is weirdly lazy. It looks like they got to the last fifth of the car and ran out of ideas. Honestly I don’t think any of it looks very nice, but the rest is aesthetically consistent at least. It’s like something the bad guy would drive in a Fast and the Furious movie,…

Filming a little something for the ‘Hub

From Reagan on AIDS to Bush on Katrina I agree it’s futile to expect things. Doesn’t make inaction OKAY, though.

Who do you think I’m simping for, apart from people who expect their taxes to benefit the country they live in? And why did you tell me about paper towels twice? 

Lack of preparedness is still a failure of response. Maybe if the Tennessee state legislature spent as much effort on infrastructure as they do trying to eliminate access to abortion, they’d be able to knock out a bridge here and there? Or maybe there’d be some federal support available if we weren’t so busy going…

Bro sitting in the car watching the deer coming like “oh man if only there were something I could do”

You’re right, decorum is more important than action. It was very rude of me to suggest that Washington or Nashville should do anything to help their constituents. It’s natural that they should leave people to their own devices while they process their emotional trauma and I’m being very unkind suggesting that they…

Hey pal

Clown = believing people deserve the consequences of their actions

Ah yes, the sure sign of a successful nation: laypeople rebuilding destroyed infrastructure with trash because the government has zero interest in doing so!

Aesthetically, I actually kind of like it. But putting explicit mention of the movie everywhere has big “Milhouse’s Radioactive Man costume” energy.

Except for phones and tablets, modern Apple does not have the engineering chops they possessed a couple decades ago. Their full sized computers are overbuilt masses of sheet metal, filled with pointless heat-trap baffles and parts that do nothing to justify their monster prices, and their laptops are rattly claptrap…

With that said, man this IS a pretty car. It looks like Porsche built a Model 3 out of the McLaren parts bin.

I’m sure Ford’s shareholders would rather this dude not gush about the competition, but you know what? Good for him. He’s driving the other guys’ cars and giving them an honest appraisal. I hope this car delivers some lessons for can use on their own offerings.

The K5 continues Kia’s fine tradition of making cars that look vaguely like European sport sedans with good enough performance and tolerable prices. But it’s “hot” trim, the GT isn’t really a big improvement over the base model, performance wise. I assume they don’t want to make it too zesty because that would eat…

Just Milwaukee things

The right wing hates the repression of free speech, the clandestine manipulation of political systems, and the surveillance state, right up until they get ahold of those things, then they loooooooooooooooooove them.