He’s not totally off on “mercurial”, but “inconsistent” would have been better. His use of “consecration” is reminiscent of so many new-agey, “spiritual” people I know who try to re-purpose words to make themselves sound authoritative; that is though, how the meanings of so many words are perverted.

You have to deal with the “is”. Apart from the Northeast and Chicago, most public transit in US cities is woefully inadequate and people have no choice but to commute by car. Further, many, many cities grew up before the automobile and therefore not only lack sufficient street parking, but places to put garages -…

It’s terrible, but at least there are options, many of them, none that are tolled. As a Philly to Seattle to Philly transplant, I5 from north of Seattle to Portland sucks (in both directions) far more than any road in PA. (I90E blows, too) Seriously, at any given time I5 makes the Schuylkill Expressway look like the…

I never understood the Flex hate. Sure, it had a plastic-y Ford interior, but it hauled ass, and other stuff, and was comfortable and (still is) decently reliable for a conscientious owner. My brother went from owning a Volvo rocket-brick to a Flex, and told me that he thoughgt he was covertly hypnotized by a Swede;…

LAdy of the house went from an A6 to a CX-5 and is now on her third. I am on my second Cx-9. The mileage could be better on the Cx-9, but I am more satisfied with the comfort, features, performance, and reliability of those cars than I’ve been with any that I’ve ever owned. And, I don’t have to pay a subscription for…

I spent about eight years regularly driving between Seattle and Portland - I5 sucks, and so do most of the drivers on it. People driving 50 in the left lane, never getting over even in the middle of fucking nowhere... I once saw someone drive up the Met tracks near the Rose Garden in the middle of the day.

I’m of so many minds on this. I drove crazy shit as a young person - cars that could go too fast, cars that were not known for their stopping ability, muscle cars that were good when going straight and terrifying when not, little Brit and Italian convertibles that could literally drive under a semi, rear-wheel drive…

Kylie apparently didn’t read about the case beyond the headline. There is no suggestion that the father is a bad parent. There is no suggestion that he was being unreasonable with regard to the baby being fed breastmilk, since he made clear that formula was a stop-gap for when breastmilk wasn’t available.

$4000-4500, tops, and that includes the HBO surcharge. A salvage title is a salvage title.

Without getting too deep into this admittedly stupid policy, there are people who simply won’t undertake any sort of dental treatment, and their refusal isn’t rooted in phobia. There are people who intentionally manipulate their teeth and/or tongues to look “untraditional”. Those people don’t meet any definition of…

To me, this is less of a “men are terrible” thing than, “the men I chose to spend time with/have sex with/have children with/marry were terrible, and I’m out of gas because I don’t even know how to identify a person who is genuinely interested in me as a person, so I’m out”.

Only if you’re entering your local low self-esteem contest and need a leg up on the competition.

Auto wipers, seat warmers and ventilated seats, heated steering wheels - - all game changers. Sure, seats that can be adjusted in 347 ways are nice, and power windows are an essential, but adaptive cruise and automatic wipers did more to relieve my hot-button driving frustrations than anything. There’s something…

Once upon a time, I would have said an ‘83 Saab 900S. Of course, I bought 4 more Saabs, all of which ran me around 175k relatively trouble-free miles save for a couple of clutches and brake repairs.

I’m sort of at a loss as to what the expectations are, here. Nepotism has existed forever; many people see it is a perk of success. In other words if one has hit a certain level of professional success that affords access and a leg up to one’s kid (in any field), who is not going to try to help their kid, especially…

How about de-gloving a finger or two after getting a wedding ring caught on a drop ceiling track when jumping down? You wouldn’t believe how often that happens every year...someone sees an unseated tile, gets up on their chair to fix it, jumps/falls off, leaves a bit of their hand in the ceiling.

I spent 20 years overseeing large workers’ compensation programs nationwide, including for several airlines. The constellation of stupid things people do that cause injury is so vast that if one doesn’t appreciate statistics at the start, one will eventually. You cannot train away human frailty; the most experienced…

I believe you know what they were implying, which is far from the reality of her life.

Don’t ever buy a car that’s been in a flood. Insurance companies total’em for a reason.

The answer is regulated capitalism. Every other system fails because we are inherently capitalist; unless we somehow do away with avarice, we will always have people seeking wealth and power. We’ve proven to ourselves that pure capitalism isn’t the answer, nor are mercantilism, socialism or communism, because each…