+1 for length.

Except that at 45K miles, you almost certainly don't need new rotors. You can reuse the sensors if they haven't triggered a "need new pads" light in the IP, and the pads are just Pagid and can be bought anywhere.

“...tumble around like a roofie’d Mary Lou Retton at every turn.”

First question is: Is it a design patent (likely) or a utility patent?

How come we can understand Torch perfectly (when he's not driving) even though he doesn't have Doug's Stapler Mike on?

There are unlimited trademarks! Anything can be a trademark. But not every trademark can have government protection.

Pretty sure no one's made the 1st Amendment argument. It probably wouldn't work b/c as you said, there's no prohibition on the actual speech. Denying the TM just means you don't get government-sanctioned protection for that "speech". You can still use it as a mark, it just won't be registered.

The problem with their argument is that Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibits any mark that “consists of or comprises immoral, deceptive or scandalous matter,” among other things. So the trademark office HAS to make that call. Their solution should be a political one, i.e. lobby Congress to change the Lanham Act we…

What about the other possibility, that he simply meant that having $22 left after taxes in 1975 would be like having $8 a week today? It fits exactly with what he said (and is about right), but doesn't fit into your liberal narrative.

I’m a tax guy. Not deductible.

Seems like only the left rear tire was making all the smoke. No limited slip diff? I actually didn't know you could do burnouts that well in a 4WD car.

I had one, all 1.9 cubic feet of it. And it was an upside down pyramid shape. Pretty much useless. It did have tiny triangular cubbies behind the seats.

That would be necrophilia!

I've lived in Virginia my whole life. Have never known anything else. For a (formerly) Republican live-free-or-die type state to be this obsessed with speeding is really odd. Seriously, of all states, WE are the only one that doesn't allow radar detectors?? They raised the limit to 70 on some of the highways but…