Agree. At $2,500-$3,000 all good. With impending (probable) maintenance coming up, not so much.

“But you only get textbooks in school, and who reads books outside of school? I mean really, who actually cares about school anyway? Hell, I dropped out my junior year to work at the Jiffy-Lube and never missed a thing!”

Oh my effing god, I had to make that ‘I am no less married today than before same sex marriage’ and it felt just as idiotic that I had to make it.

When I see stuff from Mother Jones, I always read it because they do a really good job of reframing news in a way that forces me to think more critically, which is always welcome. I need to start reading them on the regular.

Michael Shannon shines too bright to be a character actor, and is way to dominant to put alongside pretty much any ‘leading man’ but too grounded to actually fit most ‘leading man’ roles.

In the US, a cash deposit over $10k gets automatically flagged for FBI review. They will have questions.

I have not compared the two head to head, but WaPo has certainly put out some good stuff I have read.

Sulzburger needs to go too.

I agree with your point on media - I also worked in newspapers many lifetimes ago - but as you note, for a piece by an outside contributor like Tom Cotton, not reading prior to publication is raw idiocy.

Its editorial, not news, so he had plenty of time to do his absurdly well-paying job of, you know, editing. NYT is a great newspaper, but their editorial staff and management should be sent back to junior college where apparently their critical thinking skills were stopped dead half-formed.

Read it. Bookmarked it. Noted it carefully for future reference and will be forwarding it.

Already happened in Chicago. Dipshit white dude in a Joker mask got caught, on video, burning a police vehicle and related shenanigans. Being a borderline crowdsourced surveillance society has its advantages, apparently.

Hey now, Metallica is... pretty good.

My FIL has two AR-15s and several handguns. He is worried about home invasion, which has never happened in his town, and being carjacked coming to visit us - we live in a diverse community close to Chicago, but have never had any issues with crime or violence. We do have many people of color in our community, but if…

Hypothetical question - lets say the engine or battery went kaflooey (not knocking quality, just hypothetically...) how hard would it be to put a regular small gas engine in it with additional required gear to convert to ‘normal gas car’?

Starred because you are so much more concise than I was.

If I were selling a car, I would do exactly that to demonstrate it was a good value.

You are not alone.

Get some ‘good stuff’ sprey foam insulation, the maximim-expansion kind, and spray it on the bricks.

Apparently she is currently a realtor who ‘used to work in the health care industry’.