Why is this so hard for folks to wrap their heads around?

Except “now you can get a cheaper basic car” isn’t how it’s going to play out. An ultra-basic model will theoretically exist, but no dealers will order it, it’ll be a pain to get, and the moderately-equipped stuff we’re used to will be marked up.

US consumers: haven’t had a meaningful raise in decades.

I just read in another thread that they closed off that address. Maybe this one still works?

Much like Lauren isn’t saying that the Broncos are trying to kill Joe Flacco, I’m not suggesting that emailing g-omediafeedback@googlegroups.com with complaints about the current media strategy will send it to the chucklefucks responsible for making these decisions.

Should have been acute on chronic injury. Editing error. Should be fixed. Thanks.

Not really. But this sounds like an amazing story.

His title has been re-cast as Assistant to the GM.

The argument for the last decade or so has been the Patriots don’t win games, other teams screw up and give it to them.  Maybe it’s just that Belichick is actually just really good at crafting plays to make other teams screw up?  Some sort of mental trickery?  What I’m saying is, Belichick has mind powers and is…

If I recall correctly, he hasn’t even attempted a real one. There are a few “three point attempts” but if you track down the play by plays, they’re end of quarter heaves.

How did you manage to read this part of the sentence without the context of the beginning of the same sentence as well as the sentence just before it?

The point [Stephen A. Smith] seems to be making [... is] that China-Hong Kong should be placed right alongside Israel-Palestine as terrible things no one in their right mind should want to call out publicly.

“The difference between Israel-Palestine and China-Hong Kong, then, is only that Israel has been more successful in branding its conflict with those it oppresses as genuinely above reproach than China has thus far been with its dealings with Hong Kong.”

No, no.  Rest assured you simply missed the point.  

genuinely unsure how anyone with any reading  comprehension could come to this conclusion

I still can remember the first time seeing GT1 on a demo disc on a PS1 kiosk at Circuit City in late 1997. I was flipping out saying, HOLY CRAP! THEY ARE RACING HONDA CIVICS AND THEY LOOK REAL! (Real for 1997 PS1 graphics.)

This will never get old.

3rd person blogs are never a good sign.

I’m a former super-spy who’s trying to keep a low profile in Miami while also not spending a whole bunch of money, I need a car that doesn’t draw a crowd, can be used to transport people or things easily, and, most of all, blends in with its surroundings.

Well, he’s not Poor Rodriguez.