I grew up in Boston, and was pretty close via family to some of the folks running WGBH, which has always kind of been the brain trust for all PBS programming in general. So I feel qualified to give a little background on how and why Elmo ruined Sesame Street.

The struggle is real.

I feel you. 29 and still on the family plan. My excuse is that I’m grandfathered into Verizon unlimited data, and pay $30 a month for it.

The first part of your challenge is either a cruel fantasy or an utter pipedream, depending on how you see things, and all thanks to the inherently unequal distribution of human intelligence.

Nuclear. Whether 3rd/4th gen uranium reactors, the thorium cycle, or something newer/better we need to be in the midst of a worldwide push to replace all coal-fired power plants with nuclear sources if we have a prayer of halting climate change.

This.

All discussions about Pilgrim feast-themed horror films are null, void, and utterly pointless until Eli Roth finally gets off his ass and makes ‘Thanksgiving’.

I used to hate them, like everyone else. But now, I think to how so few people are into cars and into getting their hands dirty with them to make them go fast, even compared to just 10 years ago.

No offense was meant there, I swear!

Speaking of Chinese luxury...

It didn’t end there.

What the post glosses over is that it’s a quiet-boom design as well, allowing it to fly supersonic over countries with less stringent sonic boom regulations.

Once again, the answer, of course, is a Saab:

This.

I agree in that it’s a little TOO geriatric looking, and I blame it on the grill. Especially when you compare the car as built to some of the more aggressive looking wide-grilled speculative renderings that were floating around.

Now the REAL question is:

I’m sure that most people who aren’t sociopaths can understand that their speech has consequences.

Supposedly the -J’s have some major COG and flight characteristic differences from earlier hercs, which the AC’s boom-boom kit apparently exacerbated.

I heard accounts on other sites of Hawker Hurricane-style skin ripples from the fuselage sagging, and I’d bet its cross-section is more elliptical than circular now.

The TL:DR version: