“The good news is that there will be one capitalist less in the world, the bad news is that he is me.”

So why didn’t you book your rental at the same time you booked your trip? Sounds like the whole problem was because you wanted something specific at the very last minute and knowing the pandemic screwed up rentals..

It got us to the North Shore beaches, but I hated every minute of it.

Even fast food workers know not  to park on railway tracks.  

presumably, that’s the gear reduction (i.e. torque multiplication) effect of that two-speed transmission connecting the electric motor to the rear axle

I mean, with 700-plus lb-ft, the shape of the torque curve is almost irrelevant

W210 E55 is the way...

Not familiar with sportscar racing?

It doesn't almost mean shit. It means shit.

Colonialism actually waned under her rule.

I hate the idea that the dead somehow demand, and are entitled to, respect by the simple fact that they died. The Queen was the figurehead of the British monarchy and was born into staggering privilege that was acquired by sacking the planet and its inhabitants. I don’t have to respect her one iota. The world would be…

Yeeeahhh... I think what she enjoyed went a little beyond simple white privilege.

For us, though, we’ll always remember Queen Elizabeth as the ambulance-driving, truck-fixing speed demon of the Royal Family. In that way, she was one of us.

She was the living embodiment of white privilege so good for her, I guess.

It never stops amazing me how much attention people in the US pay to the UK royal family.

The hand is such a nice touch.

It’s funny.  When he first announced this run, I genuinely feared that his celebrity would give him the win.  Then he campaigned.

My wife has a fear that some day I’ll be able to start a collection of cars that I find interesting, which will basically be a bunch of Malibu wagons, GLH Omnis, and Matadors. 

As far as “culture” goes in the USA. Apologies to NYC, Chicago, San Francisco...

cultural destinations like Miami and Las Vegas