In other news, people sometimes forget they’re carrying a firearm. Doesn’t make any sense to me either, but since you guys are overlooking at least as many firearms as you find, and given that nobody has used a firearm to hijack a commercial US passenger aircraft for decades, it doesn’t seem like enough of a threat to…

That’s what I was thinking. It’s hard to believe that Otto’s highest, best purpose in life is saving the world from 4-ounce tubes of toothpaste. He could do better, and so could we.

Considering all of the other stupid, destructive things that my taxes are used to fund, I say give him whatever he asks for. He gets useful shit done.

He was going pretty slow when he left the pavement. So if he was originally doing 70 as he said, he must have nailed the brakes pretty hard when the flapping noise started. If he had eased off the gas instead he probably would have been able to pull over without any drama.

Also, I remember when I first realized that everybody I knew who owned cars like that either dropped out of college, or were forcibly evicted. Blink...

Both are accurate. First you dominate all the competing males, then you get the attention of the females. Works everywhere from the Wal-Mart parking lot to the set of Wild Kingdom.

Maintenance log entry: Autoland rough.

(Shrug) I’d buy a car from the people who built the HP Laserjet IV.

Smart money: Boxster or Cayman, ideally a 987.2 or 981. You can spend more money for a two-seater but you will not get a better car. Buy a 981S or GTS and you will forget you ever heard of Ferrari.

I agree, it’s rare I turn mine off, but uhh, cars were made without them for quite awhile.

If you’ll let me wander around in your house and garage for 10 minutes, I’ll bet I can find a half-dozen dangerous things that you had no idea were dangerous.

Unfortunately, it’s not realistic to expect the government to allow a company to fail that represents a large chunk of the US’s remaining industrial production capacity. Bailing out GM (and their supply chain) was justifiable on strategic grounds alone, for the sake of national security.

To make sure you get a job, hopefully at the expense of someone who disagrees with you!

Au contraire. If people had longer memories, they’d be more skeptical of goofy ‘innovations’ that often end up being more trouble than they’re worth.

So you’re saying the Porsche started off as timeless?

Let me know if you need a letter of recommendation to go with your resume. I’ll forge one.

Problem: We hired the designer of the Pontiac Aztek to style the C7 Corvette’s rear end, and now it looks like a Camaro.

Meh, best way to think of aircraft speed enforcement is the same way you’d think of picking up a nail in your tire. Annoying, but one of those things you can do little or nothing about, so just accept it as the cost of doing business.

Honestly, I’ve gotten to where I feel better about sending my money to Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and other petroleum-exporting hellholes, than to the headquarters of the major US airlines. That’s why I prefer to drive.

This is a legitimate complaint. It’s one of the few things I dislike about my (current model) Porsche. Roll down the window at a drive-through window on a rainy day, and a river of rainwater pours into the cabin, right down onto the switch assembly that opens the front and rear trunks.