And capitalism is what allows those airlines to acquire their startup funding.

It probably happens, but doesn’t get reported as anything but local news.

That’s what truly mystified me about the article. The airlines changing frequent flyer programs is...a deregulation problem? Frequent flyer programs are not and have never been subject to regulation - they’re entirely at the airlines’ discretion, and as such the terms can be changed pretty much at will.

I miss Northwest Airlines. The upgrade to first class (back when it included a meal and a drink) from coach on a cross-country flight was $100, one-way. Completely worth it, when you’re 6'4" with bad knees.

There’s always a lowlife ambulance chaser willing to pursue it.

Not only acceptable if the police do it, but sometimes encouraged as a matter of policy. Pull someone over, bust their taillight, cite them for a busted taillight, collect fine.

Rarely is a joke so epically awful and brilliant at the same time.

I would not be surprised if the truck driver, after thinking he just killed someone, is actually in worse shape than that woman.  

Trooper Rocky Oliphant

The Church has been hemorrhaging members in recent years. A Gallup poll showed that, from 2000 to 2020, membership in the Catholic Church has declined by 18 points, from 76 percent to 58 percent.

Magnificently dumb line.

I find that 2012 is best enjoyed for what it really is: a special-effects sampler.  

And technically, they don’t contain “aluminum,” but contain aluminum salts - aluminum zirconium, aluminum chlorohydrate.

That’s my stock-buying technique, too.

They’re about 93 miles northwest of Oodnadatta.

“Self-driving car” is the new fusion reactor.  “We’ve just made a major advance, we’re only twenty years away now, and this time we mean it!”

Broccoli is also okay for cats. My weird little 18 month old cat loves it - insists on getting a floret when I’m cutting it, and carries it around the house for an hour.

How about putting a cellular module in it, so instead of pulling the car over it contacts the police, who can then evaluate the situation and if necessary make a stop and cite/incarcerate the driver?

As someone who stacked hay bales in a hay loft as a teen, I never wanted to play in that stuff.

You’re basically right - “insider trading” is trading on material non-public information (i.e. info the general public doesn’t have). But it’s actually a little more complicated than that, as the SEC has rules for when and how insiders (which would include Kimbal, as a family member of an executive) can trade based on…