Seemed low to me, too. I looked up the Detroit rate, which seems to be $0.30 a mile plus $0.30 a minute, which isn’t great either (especially if traffic is light).

Oh, no doubt. I know lots of people in the film industry and who know or who you’re related to is a huge factor. L.A. may be a huge city but the industry is a small town with all the crap that comes with that kind of society.

Right there with you. The constant driving in constant traffic is the main reason I don’t live there anymore. Worse apartment or not, you made the right move. That’s more than an hour of your life you get back every day.

What range to you think you could clear with Lyft in a weekend now after fuel and maintenance?

They're working on eliminating that problem with self-driving cars. A decade from now there will be no driver wage problem, and not only for Uber.

This is such an L.A. debate. Love it.

It’s mostly jealousy that actors (and other artists) are trying to make a living doing something they love. People who are stuck making livings in soul-sucking jobs they hate often don't consider jobs in the arts to be a "real" job.

To paraphrase Tarantino, making your living driving in L.A. offers a lot of difficulties, number one being: you’re driving in L.A.

Not quite. It’s hard to make a good living as a driver because just about anyone can be trained to do it, making it a buyer’s market for employers.

Most of the people complaining will never have a film industry professional’s video camera trained on them in the first place. I had the opportunity to try it once years ago and knew immediately I wasn’t cut out for a SAG card. To give added context, I’m a person who’s very comfortable with public speaking, which most…

Good for both candidates on this. Sanders should have made it clear from the beginning, even if he has a solid pro-choice and anti-Hyde voting record. One of his flaws [here come the accusations that I’m defeatist and pro-Clinton] is that he assumes American voters are familiar with his history and voting record…

That's because if you marry someone before age 25 chances are high that shortly after age 25 you'll wake up one morning next to a spouse with completely different priorities and goals and outlook on life. And chances are high that your spouse will have the same thing happen to him or her. We just turn into very…

I was lucky. By the time I knew myself better I knew marriage wasn’t for me. What I’ve seen since then is that so few marriages last, end of sentence. 70% of them seem to end in divorce or mutual dislike.

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In the short term all I can think about is the quote about chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

Sure, there are plenty of Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, etc. who’d be considered Arabs. They obviously wouldn’t be welcome on this racist dating site, but I wonder how Jews of Eastern and Western European Caucasian backgrounds would be treated or screened out.

It would also be telling to see if they include “Jewish” under ethnicity, as a lot of white supremacists consider Jews to be racially non-white (along with the non-Castilian Hispanics and Persians you mention).

I do, too, but once the kid enters junior high school the pressure is too great and the device too useful for it not to happen. The best solutions I’ve seen involve a combination of strict no-replacements consequences for breakage combined with heavy parental controls and regular spot inspections until age 16. The…

Thanks for your perspective. I do wonder what the impact would be if Turkey had that “first deemed-safe” status revoked by whatever body makes such decisions. My sense is that it would put an end to a lot of the dithering and force the EU and the Western nations (and some Muslim countries outside the Middle East) to…

In his defense, the parties where people put wooden chair legs and spiky glowing rubber balls up their rectums are enough to keep a person more than entertained.