i could tell you a few but theyre all at the local level. the problem is that national and international politics rarely gets to show you tangible return on your investments. and when they do its always because someone else did something and/or at someones detriment.

Edit: except things like roads and schools and firehouses, those are tangible

Politics isnt the same thing as government, is it? I guess government is the byproduct of politics. idk im overly caffinated and ****ing stars is broken.

stars should be fixed now

They're completely different things that too often get muddled together

On a related note does anyone have a memory foam bed? Are they really worth twice the amount of a spring bed?

They really ought to just straight up copy the exteriors of the classics and then put all the modern amenities and technologies on the inside.

Why bother building a watered down modern Camero when you own the rights to the original design that everyone loves?

Sounds familiar. Don't miss it.

Not if you're Badr.

In name of all things awesome month: Badass Machine Gun Preacher

Exactly, I remember thinking this 15 years ago. Instead they put out crap like the PT Cruiser. FU rental car companies for always sticking me with those pieces of ****.

Everytime I see one of those i have to resist the urge to do this:

No joke, I saw a PT Cruiser the other day and immediately thought of you.

The Dodge Caliber I rented wasn't any better though.

For the record, the best POS sub-compact car I have ever rented was a Hyundai Accent. It just blew all the rest out of the water in the dirt cheap car category.

I agree, but in its category, I'd rather own a Maserati sedan or the new 4 door Aston Martin.

Along the same lines, I think everyone w/ a few $ but not outrageous $ in Germany has now purchased an Audi A5. In that "lower" cost category, I really, really like the new 5 series. I priced one the other day and may buy one in the next few months, but I haven't decided yet. I'll be very interested in trying the new 4 cylinder and am curious to find out the effects of x-drive on gas mileage. I have a 6 cylinder 5 series and avg about 28-30 mpg in all around driving...which is pretty good considering. I'm also planning on checking out the new Range Rover Evoque. It is supposed to get improved fuel efficiency over the standard RR, but I don't know how much and it doesn't take much to improve upon 12 mpg.

Chevy Aveo FTL

I've got a tempurpedic cloud supreme and love it. The beds come in a ton of different foam densities so you've got to spend a little time trying to find the right one for you.

I've had mine for 2 years now and still love it. Everyone else who has ever tried it has loved it too. I liked mine so much that I spent 600 bucks to have it shipped across the country just recently.

I have a MemoryWorks bed, it was ~1/2 the cost of a comparable Tempurpedic one and my g/f and I liked it better anyway. They shouldn't be too prohibitively expensive unless you go with Tempurpedic - they have a stranglehold on that industry but afaik there are other memory foam brands that are clearly just as good.

a memory foam bed is only memory foam for the top 2 inches or so, the rest is regular foam. If you want to try it without spending a bunch you can get a large part of the effect by buying a sheet of memory foam to put over the mattress you have now.

In general though...yeah, the memory foam is pretty good at removing pressure points.

guys that had a bachelor party - did you only invite friends you invited to the wedding?

Would it be an insult to be invited to the bach party and not the wedding?

We are trying to keep the guest list small since it is at our house, and my family alone is like 30 ppl (that's what happens with 9 sisters)

Not married but been to a few bach parties and Ill weigh in. With a wedding that small i think its ok. I assume the people that are gonna make the wedding cut are gonna be more family friend types and not guys you like to get ****ed up with.

I wouldnt mind if it were explained to me and would definitely prefer being invited to bach party only instead of neither. I think the bigger issue is gonna be explaining to the guys you invited to the wedding how they didnt make the bach party cut.

Everyone at my bachelor's party went to the wedding, but I didn't have anything to do with who was invited to my bachelor's party.

Usually the groom invites people to a wedding, but the bachelor party is organized to others. So, there is a disconnect between the wedding and the bachelor party.

edit: I've been to at least one bachelor party where I was not invited to the wedding.

bros don't care

I've been invited to and attended 3 bachelor parties of fraternity brothers where I wasn't invited to the wedding. Big weddings, but situation where good friend from 10 years ago who I rarely see, and never hang out alone with. But some of their best friends are my friends too, so I got a casual "Round 2" BP invite and accepted fully.

If it's a small wedding, even more reason to invite more people to your BP and them to be understanding cool with it. Unless it's a "Oh, so-and-so was invited but not me when I thought we were as good of friends, etc." But that's more acting like a chick.

You can always throw a bigger post-wedding bash (even a few weeks or a month later) that includes all your male/female friends that didn't attend the wedding.

thx bros, i'll proceed with just inviting everyone to the bachelor party

This sums it up a lot better

lol...exactly.

I assume that means we're all invited. When and where do we meet up bro?

A very sttf wedding!