Why do people continue to misuse “quantum leap” when they want to describe giant changes instead of almost infinitely tiny ones? It’s almost as bad as the misuse of the word “decimate”.

Rhode Island is, for the most part, fairly close to sea level in most parts of the state. When ten inches of rain fall in two days, there’s no gravity leading it downhill to the sea. It’s draining off very, very slowly. That was the case in the 2010 floods.

I still remember this only too well.

I owned one of these in the early nineties, when I was in my late teens. It was given to me, gratis, by a Domino’s delivery driver who no longer wished to even be seen behind the wheel of the thing. As one might expect, it was a complete piece of shit. Within two months, the combination of leaking gas tank, bent rims,…

1976 Dodge Aspen. A powder blue mound of shit with four wheels. It was given to me for free by a Domino’s delivery driver in 1991 when he decided that he could no longer stand the social stigma of being seen driving it. Leaky gas tank, rotted out wires, rust everywhere ... the only thing that was in even moderately…