Ha. I remember a local news story a few years back about a dealership in town where they'd throw people's keys onto the roof of the building to keep them from leaving. Not sure how they got away with that even briefly, or why anyone would buy a car from someone who pulled such a silly stunt, but apparently the…

Yep. I still own my Type S. It's got everything that was fun about the Integra, plus all that was missing, like normal headlights and a smidgen of torque. It's been paid off forever, but I can't think of anything to replace it with unless VW brings the Golf GTD here. I still look around when I visit Acura dealerships,…

Not at all — long I have waited for a chance to make an oblique reference to my screen name.

I owned a Gen 3 '95 Integra GSR and an '02 RSX. The GSR was definitely a '90s car with those weird little round headlights. Didn't think the refresh really improved the looks much, although I think I ended up with the newer…

Those are both really Gen 3. The 4thGen Integras were the DC5s sold in the U.S. as the RSX beginning in 2002.

... or the cat.

I'd think just a few runs at 2 or 300 mph would disintegrate a normal knee / ankle / foot as well.

Definitely need supplementary powers for super speed or flight.

If super speed were your only power, wouldn't you be in constant danger of killing yourself or other grievous bodily harm?

When we were dating, my now-wife asked me whether I'd prefer the power of flight or invisibility, asserting it as some kind of personality test. I picked flight, having had the same thoughts in the post that invisibility would lend itself mostly to transgression (the whole power is the ability to hide, after all). She…

She did sound a wee bit defensive on the topic. Extremely defensive, actually. Like one would be about a question that was threatening in some way.

I once asked an assistant U.S. attorney I knew from high school, very politely (I thought) whether RICO forfeiture laws created any kind of problematic incentives for law enforcement.

She whipped her head around with an audible snap and shouted that only she and her immediate superior even understood how RICO works…

Those look terrific, and not just because we can't have them. Partially that, though. But still.

That badge is actually way better than the traditional plasti-chrome lettering on most cars. When did the world decide THAT was a good idea, by the way? And we needn't even mention the "gold kit" versions still rolling around on vintage Lexi and forth, I hope.

Impertinently large or not, at least the big F O R D…

If that was the motive, it was just as childish, spiteful, and ineffective. And regardless, it educated New York and the country as to just how empty the "broken windows" and stop n frisk lite approaches really are. Heavy-handed policing is not effective policing. No one missed it at all.

NYPD: "You'll miss our overactive policing of minor infractions when it's gone!"

NYC: "No, actually we didn't."

Better put some little filter booties on those open ITBs though.

The dog's name is ... Basil? British people are awesome.

Be better if the test came back positive, requiring costly and annoying treatments. He'll live, but at least he won't have benefitted from murdering the animal he treated as a toy and killed to avoid the inconvenience of a few shots. Dick.

This is a great piece. I didn't even know that Sony had pulled distribution. A cowardly, cynical move indeed. Cartoon bad guys win with cartoon tactics. We're through some kind of "perception = reality" looking glass here. I wonder if the "serious press" will have anything this cogent and insightful to say. Great…

is what I saw when I read the headline. Then again, I am not god at maths. Surprised this one's not doing better. Manual wagon, AWD, 300 hp? I even like the orange interior. Really only the "rad" color hits the wrong note. Why go through all the effort of having a sporty car that looks like a non-sporty car, then…

Great piece. I do think there is a lot of confusion about how well-meaning members of the various empowered demographics are supposed to behave. That's a shame because it just reinforces the idea that we are all so different that we can't possibly understand or empathize or simply support each other. The new scrutiny…