I’m a sucker for 4-seat convertibles, even ones as ugly as this. That said, this thing is a deathtrap. It’s also slow and boring. That’s putting it firmly into CP territory for me.

This. I have a slightly loose rear driver window in my Eos that rattles if I don’t have it sticking about 1 inch over the sill. It’s barely noticeable but I suffer the crisis of the damned every time I have to decide to either put it up a touch or hear it rattle over every single bump and pothole.

My dad had a 1977 TR7 hardtop in British racing green, so logic has nothing to do with my decision. Aside from the seats, that interior brought back a wave of memories - I’d almost forgotten that tiny little door-mounted ashtray under the flimsy door latch. No one in my family smoked so these were perfectly clean and…

THIS! The skills they demand will get you more money elsewhere - it’s the same thing with schools! We’re seeing a massive teacher shortage because the pay is shit and the profession is despised by society at large and a punching bag for politicians. Why the hell would I want to spend 65 hourse each week dealing with…

This. Mike Rowe is a champion of the dirty job someone’s gotta do and he’s always talking about how hard it is for business owners to find people to do them, but he keeps missing the point: most of these jobs pay shit wages. Yes, there’s nothing wrong with being a plumber but getting the necessary training,…

Google ‘bush mocks executed’ and you get 448K hits. Here’s the first one: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2005/12/bushs_tookie.html

Sorry mocking the disabled woman he ordered executed with “oh please, please don’t kill me - heh, heh!” is an asshole move.

Cops show up for a report of someone waving a gun in the street. If you think they assign the same priority to someone claiming a woman is being raped somewhere else and no, officer, I didn’t witness it myself, then you’re insane.

This. Remember their 5 minutes of soul-searching after Romney lost? Remember their shamefaced admissions that they really should be reaching out to hispanics since they’re overwhelmingly catholic and naturally conservative? Not only did that not last, they’re stupidly thinking that Trump is a trend, not a fluke. They…

This. Really want to get rid of illegal workers? Charge the people hiring them a $1000 fine for each one they hire. Give half of that fine to the person who reports the employer to encourage whistleblowing. This would be incredibly easy to implement and wouldn’t cost ICE a penny. Deportions would skyrocket even more…

Yep. How much would you want to be paid to work in those conditions? How much do you want to bet she’s not getting much more than minimum wage?

Exactly. All these right-wing assholes who extol the virtues of capitalism suddenly get all pissy when you point out that without cheap immigrant labor the wages for shitty jobs would have to double at the very least. The law of the free market declares that people will pay what something is worth and that applies to…

Michael Moore had the best rebuttal to this: “If profit is the most important thing then why doesn’t GM sell crack?”

Don’t expect much in the way of a thoughtful response. They’ll just give you the same dumbstruck look as that idiotic Trump supporter who was astounded that her illegal husband was being deported. “B...b...but WE weren’t supposed to be hurt - only the OTHER people!”

I had a 1991 ESi in white and looking at the pix brought back a ton of memories. I loved my car but I lusted after the AWD TSi ever since I saw one effortlessly pull away from a stoplight in the depths of an Ottawa blizzard while I feathered my clutch for enough traction to get moving. Test drove one once and loved…

because one conservative think tank in the 90s published a plan doesnt automatically make it a “republican plan”

Your proposed system would still cost more than simply imprisoning these offenders. It would also still result in innocents being killed. But I guess you’d feel better about it so that’s something. Yay.

To say nothing of how money factors into it. Go look for millionaires on death row - go on, I’ll wait. None? How about really well-off people? A couple, maybe? Ok, now how many poor folks? Oh, there’s the rest of them!

What it came down to for me was that I had to ask myself what percentage of innocent people would I be willing to tolerate being executed along with the “guilty monsters”. I decided the answer, for me, had to be “zero”.

Ever talked to the victims or their relatives after an execution? They almost NEVER feel any sense of closure or justice being done - even the most bloodthirsty ones. So what are we to think when you have such an obvious lust for revenge on behalf of strangers? It’s certainly not out of some desire to bring them…