Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Not all heroes wear capes.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

So many bastards, so little time.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Bark louder, little dog.

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  1. 1.

    Andrew Reeves

    You know, this may be awfully simplistic, but wouldn’t electric cars be a bit more workable if you had an infrastructure that allowed you to pull into a “filling station” and switch out your spent battery for a charged one? That way, you could circumvent the problem of the long recharge time.

    The problem that then remains is that the electricity for the car still produces emissions. Even so, there are a lot more options for lower emission/non-fossil fuel energy in the big-ass stationary power plants than in a vehicle.

    So it’s a shame that they’re “pulling the plug,” so to speak.

  2. 2.

    jobiuspublius

    A spokesman for G.M., Dave Barthmuss, said the company stopped producing the EV1 because it had little to show for more than $1 billion in investment.

    What a bunch of losers. Yeah yeah yeah, free markets, privatization, buisiness’ do it better, gimme my tax break. I wish I had a counter example to disprove my assertion that the US auto industry is totally dragging their ass on electric vehicles, hybrid or full.

  3. 3.

    skip

    Interim combustion-hyrdrogen technology (as being pioneered by BMW) is a better solution. It would allow the “gas” station infrastructure to be built BEFORE fuel cell hyrdrogen cars become practical.

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    Buckaroo

    Skip-
    That’s also one of Hydrogen’s weaknesses. The infrastructure *has* to be built before Hydrogen cars become practical. Quite a speculation on the past of the filling stations, no?

    The thing is, Oil is rare in that it is both a fuel source and a fuel. Hydrogen is only a fuel, and not a particularly good one at that (any body got a good plan for efficient electrolysis on the massive scale that will be required?). It’s primary advantage is the same as electric- it allows diversification of *fuel sources*. However, it is far from the silver bullet that many believe it to be.

  5. 5.

    Slartibartfast

    Oil is rare in that it is both a fuel source and a fuel.

    I’m not sure what you mean by this. If you’re saying oil is an energy source, consider that it is, instead, a long-term energy storage medium.

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    skip

    Sure the infrastructure will need to be built, but relying on current petrol soures is obviously risky–and every cent that petrol goes up makes hyrdrogen look better.

    Thereto related, the money spent in Iraq could have funded the infrastructure (and perhaps made our borders secure).

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