Starred for the reference to what may be the worst Demi Moore movie ever made.

So the Corvettes went two across to try and block the Ford, and as a result one of the Corvettes was blocked and the Ford got by?

Bud Light diplomacy.

12%...hmm.

Dark Side of the Hoon is epic.

That makes me laugh-bharara.

Thanks for the tip, but Lindsay also won’t give me a drive—hard “no test drive” policy, according to the manager.

I probably will see what you did there, if we let the cultures grow for 24-48 hours.

They are on their first DNI, but they are on their 2nd National Security Adviser.

It’s different, because those people are GOP campaign donors. See the distinction?

I’m not clear on why they aren’t helping. The existence of electric cars simply highlights an issue that would exist without electric cars—improving fleet fuel economy will reduce the amount of revenue available for roads, even if that reduction comes about entirely through improvements in ICE efficiency.

Actually, I pay a penalty to register my Tesla in Virginia precisely because of the road use tax issue, which mostly serves to highlight how dumb it is to finance road construction using fuel consumption taxes in an era where we expect total fleet fuel economy to improve overall.

I am in favor of both the incentives given to Tesla and the GM bailout, because both turned out to be incredibly good uses of taxpayer money that utterly disprove the notion that unfettered capitalism is a universal good. 

And I am not troubled by Fisker’s failure, because as Silicon Valley demonstrates routinely if…

“The surveillance is coming from inside the building. It’s coming from the target!”

I will say that my experience with a Tesla approved body shop here in Northern Virginia was really quite good—they worked closely with the service center here, picked the car up from the service center, made sure to have the parts on hand, and the thing was back together an in my driveway in less than 30 days.

The interesting thing about this video is that it long postdates the original song. The story behind it is interesting in its own right. https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/512d07d01c7d76e046002a32-temptation-of-victoria

At first I thought you were being a little unfair to the guy. Then I saw the license plate.

Speaking of Mustang drivers, buy this, take it to a Cars and Coffee, and then print out multiple copies of this article to hand out to all the Mustang drivers that walk by:

Good news for people who like bad news, as Modest Mouse might say.

Tell me more about this “automatic crack pipe,” though. If it works as well as it sounds, I might have found my exit strategy.