Being on “the spectrum”, like being an addict, is still no excuse for being an asshole. Not every alcoholic is a wife beater, and not every Asperger throws public temper tantrums.

It works great until the government that signed the deal gets overthrown, and the thing you spent a billion dollars on gets blown up in the process.  Trying to erase history has left China incapable of learning from it.

Worst part is they took out the NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY sign.

I recently had to replace the fuel pump on my S-10 Blazer, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Fuel economy rose by 50%. I’ll never recoup the funds spent on the repair, but it was still a bargain compared to a replacement vehicle at this time.

You forgot the inevitable norovirus outbreak, because it’s still a cruise ship.

It’s a port city on the Adriatic. Like it’s neighbors, it has probably officially changed hands 100 times in the past 3,000 years. Many of those times, the people living there didn’t notice the difference.

2nd gear:

What I’m seeing is that China wasted a billion dollars in the Balkans.  That road would have been blown up in a war within 2 decades anyhow, if that region’s history holds.  What good is owning deeds to that land if no one there is going to recognize them?  Let the Balkans be the CCP’s Vietnam, while the EU knowingly…

4th Gear:

I was that guy.  I watched it a couple of months ago for the first time. I’m not into mob movies at all, beyond seeing the canon films once a piece, so I wasn’t interested when it originally ran. I am into well made TV, and I was blown away by the production, writing and acting in The Sopranos. There’s a reason so…

It’s just as sound as the “my client was a weak and stupid woman who didn’t know what all these powerful men were doing” defense. It’s a regressive self-own, but courts have bought it before.

Sorry to report that the streets in the greater Seattle area are just as shitty as they are in any other major metro area in the US, just for different reasons. Neglect is the top reason, of course, but seismic and water table activity make most of the roads around here broken and rutted.  Almost every road is at some…

He hasn’t done any legal work in 30 years. He’s been an influence peddler for the majority of his career now.

Sonoma County, aka wine country. I wonder how many cops follow people home as they leave a winery tasting, just waiting for a slip-up to run ‘em in on a DUI.

Tesla is ushering in a new Malaise era.

TBF, this guy brought his birds with him to pick up his car, so he probably has a Ken doll crotch anyhow.

I assumed that she was wearing a very expensive designer dress, which is exactly what she should be wearing to meet the President of France.  I would also assume that the French people, if asked, would appreciate that she wore a very expensive designer dress to meet their President.

It really doesn’t help that the cast has aged out of their voices. Marge sounds like her mom now. As singers, all of them have overachieved, but all that straining has taken a toll. Just think of all the practice Yeardley put in for all those singing parts.

“The customer is always right” is most often quoted by someone looking for free stuff.

His arms are too short to put his tiny hands in the pockets of his slacks, so he perpetually doesn’t know what to do with his hands when standing.