that or we legalize prostitution so we can use our perfectly well-formed investigative powers to root out what is criminal (human trafficking) vs. what is a transaction between consenting adults.

I retired at 37 by dropping my expenses to approximately zero.

actually, if you’re rich enough ... it basically does.  look at Jeffrey Epstein.

is that Melania back there?!

> D.C.’s Coolest Record Store

Goodfellas and Casino.

I do not like this fact.

there are a few massive cowshit factories along I-5 in that kinda dead zone between the Grapevine and Stockton - basically where 99 takes over serving towns and cities, and 5 is just a long-haul truck route.

actually T-Mobile still blows ass for coverage. I have small, inconsequential gaps like 75 percent of the mountain time zone.

one of my neighbors owns a white ‘91 Rocky.  he’s even put something like 330,000 miles on it somehow.

however fast he was going, he was going about twice as fast as I was and I was doing about 72

it’s dumb that all cars these days are designed to look aggro, macho, and angry.

I once was behind a guy and saw him firing up about a 2 foot bong and getting ready to go to town - so I decided to pass him, on the right, even, as this is not the kind of guy I wish to share my freeway with.

yep. one of my favorite Los Angeles moments was that there was a car flipped over upside down in the #3 lane approaching the Hyperion Ave. viaduct southbound on I-5 (four southbound lanes). speed of traffic: 80. people just snap-merged and didn’t bother hitting the brakes.

some things are built to last. my buddy’s favorite home defense rifle is a Winchester 1873, that was his great-great-grandfather’s favorite home defense rifle.  it’s been in service since about 1880 or so.

I was on I-10 in Mississippi when a gold-colored viper passed me probably up against the limiter at 155mph.  next time I saw him was just past the Alabama line.  he had been pulled over.  behind him: one Mississippi state trooper, and FOUR Alabama state troopers.

insane.  mine is 268 HP (2004 v8) and I think of it as plenty of ponies.  here, Ford declares that a four-banger that’s 40HP more is somehow insufficient.  well, I’ll be damned.

also: on firefox it appears to animate three times, starting when I scroll to it, and then it is stuck on the final image.  in this case, the “end all restrictions” which is not a bad thing to be stuck on.

I am a highway sign collector.  one I’ve never managed to snag that is on my wish list is the “end all restrictions”.

I don’t remember the details, as I was 5, but not only did I fly a 747 but it was a Pan-Am 747! Prague-JFK, 1986.