No, but it is hard for people to pay attention (apparently).

My guess is the car wanted to go straight initially and the guy wasn’t paying attention so by the time he took control it was too late

Trigger warning to Tesla stans:

The asshattery in this comment section is absurd. It’s a good engine that will be decent in the car. There are dozens of reasons to buy an Audi other than straightline speed. Some people may like the interior, want more room without sacrificing gas mileage, or just prefer Audi to BMW or Mercedes. So what? We can live…

The NRA would never stand for this!! Only the white kids get guns.

You’re completely and utterly missing the point. The rarity or frequency of school shootings isn’t the fucking point. The training or eagerness of the teachers to accept the guns isn’t the point. Giving guns to teachers—whether they have training or not—simply opens a fucking Pandora’s Box of new potential tragedies.…

I agree with most of what you’re saying save for this:

“2) Even a minimally-trained teacher with a gun is a lot better than nothing in the event of a school shooting.”

That’s big leap of faith.  

The worst part are the Imaginary Rambos who will still carry, firm in the belief that they have what it takes.

This is the point I came to make. Polls show Republican support for these is around 35%, yet these states hold large majorities for the GOP. Gerrymandering and voter suppression have made it possible for the minority rule to trump the will of the voters in these cases, because they’re really only accountable to…

Ok but what about the fact that via gerrymandering, disenfranchisement and the closure of polling offices makes it really hard for the people who’d be voting against these folks to actually even vote?  If the laws are rewritten to specifically help out white Republican voters while freezing out the rest, what do you…

I mean...don’t you...already know the story?

Question: is there even a fucking point reading this long ass screed when you start out by comparing a fucking handgun, which is a machine designed to end life or at least severely maim living things, with a spare tire, which is a spare tire? Using a little self-awareness, is the rest of your post as fucking insane…

Actually, I have a pistol because I am secure in the knowledge I’m more likely to use it on myself or my wife statistically speaking.


Wait....that doesn’t make sense. 

Hope you get your money back.

If you actually read the full story from NJ.com and not the sparknotes version here, the coaches were arguing with the ref for awhile until the ref threatened them and started the clock and the kid decided to cut them so he could compete.

Here is a thing I wrote yesterday about this very article:

I don’t begrudge him this donation to his alma mater. Frankly, his wealth is so vast that it will be interesting to follow where he’ll be donating his next $2b -hopefully towards a more egalitarian purpose (public universities or healthcare systems).

Yup. Could Bloomberg do more? Yes. Could do better things with his money? Yes. Did he have to do anything? Nope. It’s his. If he wants to pay off my mortgage, I’d appreciate it, but I’m not entitled to a cent.

Dear Ham,

Had Gawker not been sued into oblivion by Peter Thiel, I’m sure you would gladly pony up $1.8B.

Cut the guy some slack.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but there’s no details explaining how we can link this to medical negligence? Creating a belief that Ms. Porter went a doc and got negligent care because she’s black doesn’t seem accurate; I have read that she was feeling ill the night before passing and was discovered at home deceased, not…