The Grifters

The present allegations (or perhaps that should be the presently resurfacing not-really-new allegations) that the actual LAPD SWAT team has an inner circle that celebrates excessive force don’t make it an easier watch...

Also, what is going on with the roof of that very weird car?

That’s about the same number of people who ultimately voted NP... for an unsupported orphan whose manufacturer wants to buy them back and scrap them. I think the only one of these people who explained their choice in the comments was making a joke, so I’ll just go ahead and assume a few of us read NCoCP before our…

No cup holders or soft-touch plastics and I’ll bet the infotainment screen is just four or or five inches? No dice.

Having trouble finding the ad on Craigslist and the URL goes to yesterday’s NPoCP, but... it looks like a decently smooth ride that you can keep alive (or even soup up) on the cheap (those rimz would have to go, for starters...). at a price that lets you wave it off as a bad gamble if there turns out to be something…

I say this knowing full well the potential for abuse, but at some point, a pattern of open contempt for the law, in a matter that causes or has potential for significant harm to the common good, has to involve handcuffs.

That many suspensions with so few consequences seems extremely soft. T My layman’s (mis)understanding of New York law is that three speeding citations (or any other combination of legal entanglements that add up to 11 points on your license) within an 18-month period at least theoretically opens the door to…

Fifth owner, more than 150k, had its 15th birthday almost 15 years ago, and languishing on the market 15 days at an asking price of $15,000? I’m sensing a theme here.

> underlanding is better

The factory hardtop is hard to get (a lot of the aftermarket ones appear to be aeroshells designed to be riveted to a roll cage for certain racing classes). If the soft top is in good shape, and a test drive and inspection back up the claim of five-figure mileage, this is a quite decent buy in this market. The…

These were nice cars in their day (and historically significant; both the AWD and the overall format may be seen now as ahead of their time, not to mention something of a proof of concept or at least a vote of confidence for the XJ Cherokee). If I had the spare time, disposable income, and garage space for another…

I’ll stand up for those final years too. They went out on a high note, with the best detective pairing in years, a tremendously watchable lead prosecutor, and newfound energy crackling from the writers’ room.

Giving workers’ performance bonuses a haircut because (I assume) one of their own got killed — that smacks of victim blaming, not to mention “the floggings will continue until morale improves.”

landed Julia Roberts at her peak

Hats off to the way it has soldiered on all these years, and I might even have the right screws loose enough to give him half what he’s asking, but miles and rust (even if as superficial as claimed) make seven grand a bit hard to swallow for a front wheel drive, unibody trucklet.

Yeah, I’m filing this under “hardly anybody goes to all that trouble just to drive normally, basking in the knowledge that he could go like a bat out of hell if he wanted to.”

This one was a trans-Atlantic trip between two major hubs for that airline (a Delta flight operated by codeshare partner Air France, if memory serves), so getting one of the big boys was not in itself surprising... but having so few fellow passengers definitely was!

I’ve never been the only passenger, but once I was one of just three aboard a DC-9 in the wee small hours of the morning. They scattered us around First Class for weight-and-balance reasons.

What came out of the sausage machine was interest (9%) and legal fees; didn’t get anything for opportunity cost to his business, nor punitive damages.