Le boo.

Really should have named it Hudson.

I can’t imagine investigators would have missed this, but would the VW group stay in a less expensive tax bracket if they sold less than a certain number of unique VINs? VW groups still gets money from the sale of the cars but pays x percent less than they normally would.

“You see kids, we have this mini van because your mom & I...”

Yeah, entirely predictable but still sad. Kara: obviously it’s hard to respect him, but it’s Roger Ailes, not Robert. :-)

My bad - skimmed a bit when I read your FDIC / risk comments and just assumed. Whoops! I was active politically locally in college and a bit afterwards then kinda got depressed about things then kind of a roller coaster between caring and feeling like it’s hopeless, much as you point out. At it’s core, capitalism…

My sincere apologies that I made it sound like it was easy. It’s quite clearly not. I’m guessing the average commenter obviously knows how to contact politcal officials if it’s feasible to do so where she/he lives. I guess I was hoping to sound like there was hope and that something can be done, and things can be…

Jon Stewart summed up what I’ve been feeling for some time a few weeks ago: we are disproportionately more upset when ‘foreigners’ harm the US rather than what we do to ourselves. Are we really that nearsighted?

Agreed in large part. Believe it or not, I think people just don’t believe things can change, or rather, they have little agency to affect change. It’s a deep-rooted fatalist view, so it appears like apathy. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty who just couldn’t be bothered to pay attention, but I think the average US…

Agreed. It’s good of Jezebel to post this article as a true public service, but most of the good work regarding eroding rights isn’t being done on Gawker related sites. I talk to a colleague who regularly meets with Senators and Congress critters. In his view, they actually DO represent their constituents...the caveat…