Even in the US, the police don't need an individual to charge you for a crime. Police can make arrest on a charge if they reasonably suspect a crime has been committed. Indeed, in most states, police can lock you up for domestic abuse, irrespective of whether your spouse wishes to press charges.

It isn't a witch hunt. If you don't believe me, physically assault a subordinate at work. Let me know how that works out for you.

Well, I submit that if you worked at my company and assaulted one of your subordinates, I'd have you dragged out of the office by the cops as I tossed your pink slip at you. I could care less how you'd hug it out with your bros later, you'd be fired, fired, so fired.

I love Jeremy Clarkson. I read his newspaper columns. I've bought all of his books. I'm incredibly sad to see Top gear come to an end—and make no mistake, it has ended, as we know it.

This the end of an era. Top Gear really got me into cars in a big way, and I'm sad to see it go.

Apparently, the TADA thinks "free market" is spelled "rent-seeking".

This is clearly a photoshop. I can tell from the pixels and from having seen a few 'shops in my time.*

No. They haven't signed new contracts. They were expected to do so in the next three weeks.

I am reconciling myself to the very real possibility that Top Gear, as we've known it, is over. The lads are at the end of their contract with the BBC anyway.

This would make Jalopnik the most widely-read automotive web site...

"Ten years ago I wouldn't have believed that I would seriously consider moving abroad. Finland is impossible to live in for certain kinds of people who have high incomes and wealth."

This may be the most 80s thing that has ever existed.

I object to your use of the word "journalism".

So, practically everything about this article is simply wrong.

So, from the 1980s to the 1990s, the price of a car tripled. OK. Good to know.

This is wrong, in every way a thing can be wrong.

The Trax is "meh" in car form.

[Obligatory James May quote]

On this day in 2006, "Who Killed the Electric Car?," a documentary about the aborted attempt by the auto industry to create an electric vehicle, debuts at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The movie posited that there was a conspiracy between oil companies, automakers and the government to kill the electric car.

Remember when President Obama said we'd have one million plug-in electric vehicles by the end of 2015? Remember when he said exactly the same thing in 2011?