It’s pretty likely that the guy’s company has a rule, like many, that any flight over 5 hours is business class. Since business travel can be urgent, the price of his seat probably had something to do with the proximity of his booking date to his departure date.

I usually think that there’s a pot for every lid, etc.. This car is the mate of the sock lost in the dryer. 

It appears the author made not a single effort to understand the legislation, the precipitating events that pushed the legislation forward, and the abuses the legislation is designed to prevent. Essentially, if a company exerts control (like Uber, Lyft, the way FedEx used to control its so-called independent…

Why do you think it’s up to him? He contracted with a company who not only had the specs, but the obligation to complete due diligence with regard to their ability to actually execute on the deal. If you can build the boat, but can’t get the boat to open water after you’ve made assurances, then the problem is yours,…

The Boys’ commitment to depicting the practical effects of extreme violence and the “ick” factor of sex (for some) is, while not something I necessarily enjoy, a refreshing change from the homogenized violence of most entertainment.

It’s really a foregone conclusion that the future is autonomous vehicles. Humans are pretty good at developing technology; the challenges of reliable, safe AV will be overcome in due time.

I have coached girls team sports much of my life. The reality then, as now, is that though there’s an audience, and though there’s participation, neither is sufficient to make women’s team sports profitable. The WNBA has been subsidized since its inception; it’s not honest to discuss the league without specifically…

The Williams sisters both have said that they would not win a game, perhaps not even return serve against the number 200 male player. That’s why they shut down any proposal to play men, and any contention that they would be competitive against men. They are quite definitely not “mayo”, and certainly deserve to have…

The science is there to back up the advantages trans-women have if they’ve passed through male puberty.

Portland is called “the whitest city in America” for a reason. So, while it’s true that the city has a pretty robust cycling community and plenty of infrastructure supporting bicycle commuting, any incremental increase in black riders is destined to be minute.

What puzzles me about fans of Homelander - assuming they’re actually real and members of the Trump wing of the GOP - is that Homelander just doesn’t have a commitment to Onanism, but is sexually fluid in ways that would make the average self-proclaimed “conservative Christian” blanch.

Someone will want this. Someone who is not me.

Except that the order was refused in every venue for lack of evidence. In a divorce, it is not uncommon to see one party or the other make such accusations, regardless of the legitimacy of the accusations. Given that the complainant was repeatedly unsuccessful and has actually been penalized by the court for violating…

I had several of these as company cars and I would rent them, too. Comfortable long distance cruisers and surprisingly good in Rt 81 snowstorms through upstate PA and NY, the Le Sabre was the representation of Buick I still envision, even though they’ve bailed on cars. This thing can do 200k - if I were still a…

I suppose my question is, since you seem to think I’m nihilist, how do you propose to halt the huge amount of dollars flowing from the US to China and other nations that are either undemocratic (i.e. China, Viet Nam) or countries where economic development is more important not just to the government, but the…

Amazon isn’t spending when it sells it’s cloud services. The point is that China is what it is. If we were really so principled, we wouldn’t have outsourced production of so many of our consumer goods there, or anywhere else where people are oppressed. The problem is, fulfillment of our consumer appetites depends upon…

The problem is less with Meta- or Amazon and more with the amount of hard cash we push into to China. China can easily enough construct it’s own cloud services and social networks; those companies leaving wouldn’t do much. What you have to think about is that China is the de facto supplier of consumer goods to the US,…

Marilyn Monroe was a very small person. That doesn’t fit the conventional wisdom, but she was anywhere from a 4-6 in contemporary sizing. Her bust was 35, but the rest of her? Tiny. I’ve seen her clothes in person, and they would inspire conspiracy theories among those who like to label her as zaftig. 

Not really what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that we labor under the assumption that Chinese people want regime change. Chinese people most assuredly don’t want regime change.

Keeping in mind that I find the Chinese government abhorrent and that I loathe the oppression and the censorship...expecting a country where the people have literally never known self-determination or true franchise is less than a pipe dream.