Considering the chances of serious injury or death, motorcycle commuting is never a logical choice.

True, maybe not in the US, although the 25 year rule includes a lot of classic Benzes. Still, I really wanted a Benz pickup, it’s probably cheaper than doing the conversion myself. There’s a club for this, natch - I believe the preferred euphemism is “service cars.”

Russia won WWII (at terrific cost), but lost most of the other wars it fought in 19th-20th century, including WWI.

“Mass exodus of refugees” is a feature, not a bug, for Putin. It puts a huge strain on the EU, and it denies the rebels a source of taxation and (WRT young males) draftees.

Or just Google “Mercedes Benz Flower car.”

The fender trim is probably hiding rust.

I was alive back then and do not share this current-day nostalgia. Caddies had the same mediocre build quality all the Big 3 had back then. The early postwar Cadillacs, with their high compression v8s, were technical marvels - but they kept building the same car, only bigger and lower, for the next 30+ years, until…

Frankly, it sounds like McKinnley / Roosevelt. And we know how that turned out.

The main character sees it more as straight-up cannibalism. He’s confused because Jesus is both the “good shepherd” and “the lamb of god.” Finally he sees a way out, via John Allegro’s book “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross,” which argues that Jesus wasn’t ON drugs, he WAS drugs.

But Jewish scripture doesn’t end with the “old” testament, either. There is a lot of stuff that comes after, including material that’s much newer than what’s in the “new” testament.

Won’t work: they think remonstrating sinners is showing tough love.

No, it’s much worse than that. God is “My shepherd.” You do the extrapolations.

I was raised Evangelical. Ask Me Anything.

If Donald Trump is god’s prophet, we’d better lay off the combover jokes.

St Paul also has anti-gay stuff. Although he lumps is in the same catagory as “disobedient to parents.”

Unless Marcion was right.

Except NT Sky Daddy killed his own kid.

Liz Smith?

IIRC he never release his medical records, and it was speculated that was the reason why. Alternate theory: he had surgery to repair a septum damaged by coke use.

He was a decent villain in “The Specialist.”