Well, if she loses, she isn’t out of politics. She moves back to the heart of party politics, the money. Her and Obama can go back to fighting over who’s ass you have to kiss to get to their respective ~50% of the donor pool. With her second run done, and Obama no longer able to be president, they can continue that…

Nice that you assume it is welfare abuses only. We have a ton of stuff as a country we are buying that can’t be paid for. That aside, the discussion of what CAN be paid, for, what should be prioritized, and how it should get paid for is a legitimate conversation that should be taking place and should not simply be…

The two parties are pretty indistinguishable on the actual details of the bad on most vectors. Who’s going to sell us down the river to Goldman Sachs this term? Both. Who fast tracked the TPP to fuck over every level of employment in the US? Until Campaign season rolled around, both were fast tracking that shit with…

Except you need to look at what they did, which isn’t what you are suggesting they do. They went heavily into public shaming and bullying. The very things they were claiming to be against. The number of instances where it went beyond “I disagree with you, and think your ideas are bad” to get the fuck out, you have no…

Dude, I have only lived in places without HOAs and other bullshit. Just township zoning. Odds are, YES, you could build some horrific protuberance out the front of the garage like that as long as you paid the permit fees and it met with code.

Had we done that, the general cost of living might not have been wickedly outpaced by the cost of education, medical care, etc.

When your average fund in a 401k is making 4% per annum, it won’t just be the uneducated and underemployed up shit’s creek.

Doubt it, I suspect the structure of things will be very Regan. THe president sort of steers the ship with an ethos and demeanor, and the cabinet is relied upon to be subject matter experts and give sound advice on the details, and the VP goes off and does the VP minimum.  

The horse didn’t die filming that. He was given the Noah at the end of filming but had to be left in Germany due to quarantine issues.

I’m on the fake rust is stupid bandwagon, but the first pic had me thinking... hmmm I’m wondering if anyone would be so ostentatious as to wrap one of those suckers in top quality suede. Add a buttload of weight, cost a ton, and make it afraid of the rain.

Regarding 2nd gear and jobs, I know what I saw coming from the CWA. It was basically the better part of a year pillorying the democrats for abandoning them and pushing the TPP. Even into the primaries. THen they turned on a dime and said vote Hillary.

People are all over the map on safety. IIHS markets safety as a means to increase their profits and reduce their costs. The government mandates the insurance. I wouldn’t call it a free market scenario.

The batteries and the solar panels are pretty well tested. They are as durable as they need to be. Literally, where haven’t we sent solar panels? Heck if you build them right, you can shoot holes in the thing and all they do is lose a fraction of their efficiency per square meter.

“Getting rich and using the money for what most people dream about when they dream about getting rich—sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, Maseratis, professional sports teams, cultural institutions with name on them—is not okay.”

I think musk is overly pie in the sky, but he does have a point.

Sema’s like E3 for bolt on mods, and like Paris fashion week for customizing the looks of vehicles. As you get into the long tail of trends, it becomes much less interesting. Just like E3 or fashion week. Which is kind of where we are at now that the late 90s, early 00s piles of disposable income that came with the…

I’ve seen a tone of pretty road ragey people, but there are three that are head and shoulders above the rest.

Part of what’s depressing is that it ISN’T the most chaotic and dystopian outlook possible.

A lot of drug abuse is self-medicating. The problem is what kind of self medicating it is. For a lot of abusers, the drug of choice is a coping mechanism for shit they should have developed coping mechanisms for growing up. They didn’t. Which means that to stop the abuse, they need to do a LOT of work accompanied by a…

Your list is commendable. I’d swap out the range rover for a defender 90, and skip the quattroporte, but other than that, solid, solid choices.