This is the same police department where the last two chiefs were fired for having affairs with subordinates. They've used up their "Oops, sorry, honest mistake" quota long ago.

Were you going for more "Detroit sports radio caller" or "MLive commenter" with that impersonation? Either way, bravo.

Sure. You can have Cuba back.

Attacking another nation's military forces is a casus belli, or legal justification for war. In US history, we've used the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor and the attacks on the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin as justification for military action, and Iraqi SAM launches at American…

Bankruptcy attorneys?

You forgot that Rickenbacker was also at one point the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he not only saved it from probably-permanent bankruptcy but also was on the leading edge of racetrack pavement innovations.

It's not the writers' salaries that are bankrupting media, but rather the upheaval in advertising. Once upon a time, advertisers would pay a massive premium to put a full-page ad against the SI back column because they knew it was one of the few virtually guaranteed ad views for a specific high-value demographic, and…

I talked to one of the F/A-18 pilots who was doing low-level just-below-Mach flybys over the Detroit River a few years ago before the Red Bull Air Race and he said that if he'd sneezed and gone supersonic, he figured there was a pretty good chance he'd have blown windows out of GM's headquarters in the Renaissance…

Having spent time talking to a Detroit 3 OEM's engineers about the smartphone/connectivity thing, they're hamstrung by the insanely different product lifecycles between a car and a smartphone. They're trying to design something that'll function for 7 years or longer. Think of what your phone didn't do seven years ago.

Rule 34: "If something exists, there is porn of it."

To truly experience all the horror that Thomas has to offer, you need to be dragged to a Thomas's Day Out, where an actual steam train done up as Thomas with the mobile creepy face and everything hauls kids around. They're usually at zoos and parks and the like where there's existing train tracks.

Carriers are also named after famous battles: Yorktown, Saratoga, Bunker Hill, etc. Amphibious assault ships, which are basically smaller, specialized carriers designed to haul around Marines, are usually named after important battles in Marine Corps history such as Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Peleliu, Makin Island and the like.

Oh, wow. I had this ad on the wall of my room, and drove a CRX for years. Damn, that was a fun little car. Shockingly good roadtrip car thanks to the big back deck area, I lost the legal right to drive in Tennessee thanks to an Annapolis-Memphis road trip and a state trooper who was watching his radar gun at 4 am one…

It seems like local media's had entertainment reporters rather than business reporters working on this story, which is a recipe for disaster when it comes to something complex like litigation and bankruptcy.

We ate brunch at Brooklyn Local (first time there, excellent) then got to Harry's at 10:30 or so on Sunday. Not sure what time Harry's opens the kitchen but the bar's damn sure open.

I'm a huge DCFC fan and I don't even care about soccer all that much. I'll watch the USMNT in the World Cup, but that's about the scope of my soccer fandom.

Ah, memories of "Double Trouble."

Those controlled flat spins are pucker-inducing.

Honorable mention to the plane my grandfather flew in WWI, the SPAD XII. Famous for having the gliding profile of a brick, and the US Army decided that they didn't want replaceable pilots bailing out of irreplaceable airplanes just because of a simple thing like an engine quitting so they didn't issue parachutes.

ISTR reading that Henry wanted the "Ford" script to match, as closely as possible, the font from a child's printing press toy he had as a kid.