I was a tour guide at an old mining camp outside Fairbanks, Alaska for a couple of summers. We worked about three hours a day and shot the shit with retirees on their dream vacations for the rest of our shift. The tips were great, we were outside most of the day, the food was good (and free), and the dining and…

Great post.

“Chinese currency Rules Everything Around Me”

So what’s the dollars/dead protester ratio that makes silence morally correct? If Ted Bundy paid you enough, would you introduce him to your sister?

Objectivist* thinking, hi and fuck you to Ayn Rand

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a23145269/alfa-romeo-giulia-quadrifoglio-reliability-update/

I think the best “favorite player not on my favorite team” guys are the ones you absolutely detest, but would love if they were on your team. Top of that list for me: Sergio Ramos. He’s an aggressive dipshit who gets away with everything, and I’d donate a kidney to get him on the Timbers.

“If you don’t know what you’re talking about, shut the fuck up!” said Stephen A Smith, shortly before the universe collapsed into an irony-singularity 

The issue isn’t that they’re wrong in this particular case, it’s that they apply their principles in a transparently self-serving and intellectually inconsistent manner.

Fantastic story, well-reported and well-written. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this, Prachi. I’m sorry for your loss, and for the burden your brother was forced to carry. 

This was a fantastic read, thanks Kristen. Flow state is so addictive! Reading about someone else experiencing it made me want to jump out the window just to get a taste of it myself.

Typically these sorts of records involve taking the average from two passes—one each direction—in order to neutralize wind as a factor in the record. 

I love it when they mime the choreography of whoever is performing. It seriously makes me tear up.

“The writers on this free website are not performing up to my lofty expectations” was a cliched take 10 years ago. Your desire to take someone, anyone, down a notch is glaringly obvious and incredibly embarrassing, not just for you but for those of us unfortunate enough to read your comments. I reiterate: please find…

Then take your self-righteous whinging over to Car & Driver, you entitled prick. 

AS A MAN THIS MAKES ME VERY ANGRY

“These goddamn coastal elitists,” I say to my driver as he works his way through traffic on the Mall. My phone rings. A quick glance at the screen and I reach for the privacy barrier controls. “It’s Jenna Bush, I have to take this.”

It’s a good play on words, but probably not true unfortunately