In a perfect world, they’d use the Maverick Hybrid platform. I imagine that was just a gleam in some engineer’s eye when bidding started though.

‘well, you’re absolutely right, we know nothing about bobsledding. But we know a lot about winning, which apparently you don’t.’

Yeah, but the burnouts are awesome.

An experienced politician would parlay Elon’s thirst into something useful.  I’m hoping Biden has a shopping list.

Q: How do you get a narcissist’s total attention?

My go-to definition is “A Libertarian is someone who wants just enough government to protect them from the other Libertarians.” Which, these days, is basically the GOP now.  Well, plus racism and defense spending. 

You lucky dog!

That’s just Canadian girlfriends. The rest of them are the same mix of gloriously weird, venal, kind and lazy as every other human on this blessed Earth.

I really, really want this to be true.

Wrong on every point. I’ll do this backwards (or “forwards” from your perspective):

So, just out of curiosity, how does that logic apply to a person who goes out of their way to deflect attention away from actually-extant Nazis?

Well, 3 of them (Roberts, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett) worked on Bush v. Gore, but at least we kept Nixon’s quisling (Bork) off the bench.

WAAAM, an hour east of Portland, OR.

Engaging and thorough writing, though I wish there’d been a brief explanation of what the copper-cooled engine project was about.

I was just going to recommend John D. Clark’s “Ignition!” since the selenium paragraph reminded me of the episode where Clark’s team got some barrels of nice stinky mercaptans to play with.

Took a Model T driving class last year, and I could not believe how much intense regular maintenance those things needed. I mean, don’t forgot to take apart the transmission every winter. Makes Harley Knucks/Pans seem like paragons of reliability.

That’s me over here, just navigating by looking for the change in smoothness of the water over the pavement markings.

So it’s Veblen goods vs. gatekeeping? I guess luxury is a little bit of both.

It’s rhetoric...I hope.

This is not even good bad-faith writing, it’s a poor pastiche. Not much of a start, Andy.