I just miss the synergies and paradigms.

Not that I advocate using wikipedia for serious research, but you should really read the entire article you pointed me to, not just the first paragraph. From that article:

Proving my theory that it is actually because of Jalopnik blowing this story all out of proportion yesterday that he got fired. Now Ray just feels guilty (so I'll say it again—Ray, hire this guy to do the AOTD ASAP. Tell him he can drop f-bombs to his heart's content.)

How is he "cleary [sic] a crack-head?" His behavior is, if anything, more indicative of mental illness. You can hear someone yelling about trying to help him, repeated again by the cops when he says "they're trying to kill me."

It's easy to say "don't resist the police" when you're sitting in the comfort of your home or office. It is quite another thing when you've just been piled on by three cops, one of whom has decided that your head would make a nice sandwich between her knee and the pavement. At that point, there's a pretty good…

As I already said, they are both—they are used to incapacitate by disrupting electrical signals as well as for pain compliance. Tasers have two modes: when used at a distance, they deploy probes and the electrical current travels between those probes, giving a broader area of incapacitation and less pain. When used…

Sounds to me like Jalopnik wants to have it both ways. Yesterday, the f-bomb tweet was "the wrong image to send from an organization so proud of their Detroit heritage they make Super Bowl Car Commercials completely premised on this idea." [jalopnik.com] Today, it's wrong for the guy responsible for creating that…

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At least the Pontiac PD is going away soon. That was some serious incompetence.

You are misinformed about tasers. While one of the goals of taser use is to disable movement, it is also known as a "pain compliance" device, meaning that a primary goal of the taser *is* to inflict pain, and the pain it inflicts will cause the subject to comply in order to avoid further pain. The problem, of…

First, watching the way this guy was behaving, there's a pretty good chance he is mentally ill and the cops should have taken that into account when dealing with him. Police are rarely trained effectively to deal with the mentally ill. He did not appear to be acting aggressively toward anyone, and he did not…

Great COTD and great advice. Many people (not Jalops so much, but society in general) seriously underestimate the therapeutic value of hands-on work.

Somebody somewhere has run the numbers and determined that they still come out ahead, either because:

It's not even a matter of not paying—in a case like this, it becomes a matter of "how long can we hold on to the insured's money without having to pay interest or other penalties?" By paying out eventually, and having some articulable reason for not paying out immediately, the insurance company manages to avoid a…

Glad to know I'm not the only one prowling craigslist for Fuegos.

Just McLaren trying to out-ugly Bernie. Or measure front-wing deflection. One of those two.

@Chairman Kaga: But sometimes it's a VW Beetle.

Re-read my comment and you'll see that it had nothing to do with "the early 70s de-tuning of the American auto industry." Instead, I addressed your proposition that Nader "is singlehandedly responsible for the American car industry deciding it didn't feel like keeping up technologically with it's European competitors…

You've found my driveway on Google, haven't you?

Sounds like a new feature: Down on the Google Street View...