I wish we’d find a happy medium between politicized denial of problems and wildly overambitious (and perhaps performative) requirements for solving them. Unfortunately, these days, all that being in the middle of anything political gets you is shot at from both sides...

Challenge under the Commerce Clause in 3, 2, 1...

A glove compartment or center console without a small bright LED flashlight is like a rainy night without artificial sunshine. Costco on a coupon has ‘em for around a penny a lumen.

Our man Emslie has taught me a few words over the years, and in all due humility, that is no mean feat. Some time ago, “squab” was one of ‘em for me too.

If you’re dumb enough to park on the tracks, you should not be a police officer

4. In a separate civil matter, she, or her estate, will handily win a large settlement or (if the cities involved are fool enough to let it go to trial) judgment against the department, for which the taxpayers will stand treat.

Should a person who thinks it’s okay to park on the train tracks even have a driver’s license, much less a badge and a gun?

“Rare” is Craigslist jargon for “good value, dead ahead,” right? Besides the jauntier looking but less practical two-door configuration, it might be rare because most people got at least a slightly higher trim. (Can’t tell from the interior pictures and lack of an underhood picture whether it even has air…

...and on the opposite coast, the idea is back in the news, hardly for the first time, with regard to the migrant-dumping crisis as well as the baseline of homelessness.

bad PR. It must have been A LOT of money

The price is slightly on the favorable side of private-party asks for C4 ZR1's and this could be a solid deal if pre-purchase inspection corroborates seemingly knowledgeable past ownership.  Or reveal why it’s been advertised to no avail for almost a month.   Well worth a look by those who cherish these.

Having seen attempted restores fail (fortunately in a drill rather than in actual disaster recovery), words can hardly describe how important it is to put your plans to the test under benign circumstances...

The risks of extensive trust relationships within a system-of-systems have been well known for a long time too...

Based on what little I can tell from the old “zoom in... enhance” on a small web-res picture, I’ll venture a guess that just some consumer equipment, or at most pro implementations of functionality anybody could buy, and a switch panel of unknown function.

I suppose it would be a test of whether the things that Police Squad/Naked Gun sent up have themselves faded out of mass consciousness. (I think the little x in the middle of the bullseye of their target was a risible series called Felony Squad from the mid-late 60.) Even more importantly, there was a lot of very…

I didn’t get past the “proof of funds” part, which seems to be the latest instant turnoff in California Craigslist car-flogging.

Yeah, I don’t think we’re talking about the most self aware photographer here:

if it hurts the U.S. economy (which is kind of the whole point of a strike).

Toyota Solara that has been in the extended family since new. It was sold both times (the second time to us) when a petite mom-to-be vetoed leaning into this low-slung two door to get kids, car seats, and the formidable logistics tail of modern childhood in and out of its back seat. We’re past that particular…

> the seller estimates the engine is good for 400 horses