There was a time when Arlington required a bachelors degree for its patrol officers. Doesn’t seem like that’s the case anymore.

My 1986 Trans Am only got about 150 miles to the tank. I don’t miss those days even knowing there are usually plenty of gas stations within a 150 mile range of wherever I am.

$45K would still be the most expensive car I’ve ever purchased, and that’s before I put in the garage charger (and I’m out of VW and Kia after previous ownership of their cars and dealing with Kia dealerships).

So it’s an entertainment system with extra steps.

They’re rare enough that you could buy a use iQ and slap an Aston badge and Ford grille on it, and nobody would know the difference.

For the first time ever, it actually was Lupus.

Proton Pump Inhibitors are fascinating.

Hopefully yes. But I’m not that smart, and I spent a lot of the ‘80s blasting Van Halen. So it could go either way on noticing for me.

French people. Am I right?

Certainly checking the CarFax is a good idea, as is a third-party inspection if you can get one. But man, it probably wouldn’t occur to me to check to make sure the catalytic converters were still there. I mean, I will check from now on after this, I guess.

I assume Brundle thought she wouldn’t say no because of the implication.

Box Office for Marvel movies seems to be doing mostly fine (US box office) when compared to the previous movies in the series.

I remember a time when there were products you could buy online, and while you were checking out, there’d be a box that you’d often have to uncheck if you didn’t want that would sign you up for some unrelated recurring subscription using the banking information you gave to make the original purchase. I cannot remember…

It took a very long time to cancel some home warranty thing we had. I’d call, sit through their whole “you have to listen to three different reasons why our product is so great even though it isn’t” speech, and then they’d say the person I have to talk to wasn’t there that day, but they’d call me back the next day.…

I had the same trouble canceling my mother’s services. Didn’t matter what documentation I provided, some companies would refuse to cancel. It was only after I closed her bank account that she stopped getting charged, which was months after-the-fact.

I would guess the concern would be that any single company that is in unilateral control of a standard creates a singular point of failure for the whole exercise. And when said point of failure is erratic and subject to large mood swings, maybe there’s an additional cause for concern.

My 1986 Trans Am. Less than 200 hp for a supposed “muscle” car, 0-60mph times that could be measured with a calendar, and a transmission that was mostly held together with prayers from a not-very-religious GM employee added up to a grave disappointment to me, especially after I had spent most of my childhood…

Calling it vandalism just makes me want to do it more (at least in terms of the California statute, it doesn’t seem like it would apply).

Whichever one it is that has Rose the Hat in that dress at the opera is the best one.

And Texas has Columbia scattered all over the countryside.