But which one is more costly to maintain? That’s a serious question, btw

I had an ‘04 Kia van that had a rapidly aging rear wiper. I was living in the snow belt at the time and road salt just attacked it.
Also had a trailer hitch on a different car that looked like that after 3-4 years

The ACA was hugely important, but remember just how much of a compromise it had to be in order to get passed. Right from the start it was based on the conservative Heritage Foundation’s plan, and a lot was given up from there. Single payer would have been better at the time, but would never have passed.

The biggest…

Mexican-American war was because we tried to bring in Texas, which Mexico did not recognize as independent. So yes, it applies.
We ended up with Texas and the entire American Southwest, granting citizenship to the Mexicans that stayed, affirmatively making them part of American culture and forever making anyone that…

When I look back on what I was taught in NY schools in the 80s and 90s, then go back and read the articles of succession and the “cornerstone” speech today, I’m shocked at how sanitized my own education was. I know a lot of people, both Northern and Southern, that push the lost cause BS, and I know that they push it…

My last two car purchases (2010 Red Accord, 2014 Blue Mazda3), I would have simply waited until I could get the color I wanted. My old cars ran, and the color made the car (honestly I thought the Red Mazda3 was worth the price premium but would have looked weird next to the different red Accord)

Puerto Ricans are not immigrants. They have birthright citizenship. Many move to the mainland, but to call them immigrants is like calling someone that moves from New York to California an immigrant.

Had a mustang convertible for an extended rental. Over time I got comfortable with it and started turning the nannies off and getting it sideways, and trying to get “high score” on the accellerometers (got over 1 G on a left turn). On one such excursion I dropped down a gear and was in a different part of the power…

Awesome. I was actually thinking “the 14th amendment is a thing” but yours fits on a sign better

The one I grew up with was a 72. You described this as “orange” but it comes off as the same kind of dusty almost red that mine was. It had no rear seats because we used it like a pickup. I remember my parents driving me to preschool while I sat on the rear wheel well with my arm hooked around the roll bar. We kept it…