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GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt
  • Absolutely. I have a 2016 Volt and I love it. I've gone 4200 miles between fill-ups; I charge at home and only fill up when I go on a long trip or the car decides the gas is too old. I get all the benefits of an EV, all the benefits of a hybrid, and all the benefits of a gas-car. Plug-in hybrids are a better way forward than full EV's.

  • What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad
  • Yup, my wife and kids use it with their Gmail accounts, I use it with my MS account on my Android phone. You can also use the same accounts on desktop clients and Apple devices, so it's not tied to a phone number. However, I'm not sure I would recommend setting it up for twin boys with ADHD (again). 😆

  • B-1 bomber crashes at South Dakota Air Force base, crew ejects safely
  • First, the beginning of your post sounds like the opening line to Jimmy Buffett's "The Devil I Know": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9WBXNW8Kj4

    Second, my favorite experience with the B-1 was at the Edwards AFB air show. They were at max power, full afterburner, but near stall - the nose was pointed way up and they were just crawling across the sky. The ground shook; the cars were parked on the flightline (pre-9/11), and every car alarm went off at the same time. It was awesome.

  • YeeeeeeHaaaaahh!
  • "She said I'm gonna hire a wino, to decorate our home.
    So you'll feel more at ease, here, and you won't need to roam.
    We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall.
    And a neon sign'll point the way to our bathroom down the hall."

  • The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
    slate.com The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man

    “Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

    The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man

    “Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

    > > > Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true. > >

    Who’s Frank Wilhoit? Many people who cite the quote assume it comes from Francis “Frank” Wilhoit, an American political scientist whose 1973 book The Politics of Massive Resistance chronicled Southern segregationists’ efforts to resist Civil Rights–era court rulings.

    That would make a whole lot of sense. But in fact it’s the work of another Frank Wilhoit, this one not a professional scholar of American politics but a 63-year-old classical music composer in Ohio, who wrote the adage as part of a longer point in the comments section of the political science blog Crooked Timber. Since then, it has taken on a life of its own, recirculating on Twitter or Reddit every few months, most recently in reference to certain Free Speech Defenders’ aggressive posture on libel and defamation laws. A handful of sleuths have cracked the case before—Francis Wilhoit died in 2010; Frank Wilhoit posted his remark in 2018—but the confusion lingers, for obvious reasons.

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