So, the ultimate upshot is the deputies didn’t intervene because dispatch told them it was a “misunderstanding”? So when they arrived on the scene... what happened? They told everyone to settle down? I feel the story is incomplete.

I really wanted to trade in my 2018 Prius Prime Plus for a 2021 Rav4 Prime, but they were charging $10k markup! My PP+ could have fetched $25k, and there is (was?) the $7.5k tax credit, but it just didn’t end up paying. So I’m still driving the trusty PP+.

I was teetering on the edge of trading in my 2018 PP+ for a Rav4 Prime, but the $10k markup talked me out of it. Also, you know, my Prime is doing just fine. It has a Comma2 for lanekeeping and I rarely have to fill the tank. Like once every 6 months.

Besides everything else here, I think the Biblical definition of the family unit involves several wives. Don’t think that’s even legal.

Per Michael Pollan:

Gas station expired miniature fruit pies.

I have an Ericophone this might be cute for!

I saw Brewster McCloud in 1970 (I was 14). The only thing not age-appropriate is a scene of a girl, hidden under a blanket (but still...), masturbating to Brewster’s doing endless pull-ups. I was disturbed by that for weeks.

We live in Los Angeles, and my wife has an annual teaching gig in her home state, Iowa. She marvels at the house you could buy there for, like $60k. Of course, she reflects, then you’d be living in Iowa.

Similar phenomenon: people take credit for their successes, and describe their failures in the passive voice.

My grandfather is buried in Hollywood Forever, and I hope when you’re enjoying a movie there, you’re not pissing on a grave. You know, the way a dog would.

Well, yes, but. It’s hard, but one must always encourage. Never say, great, but why didn’t you... whatever. Right after Trump was elected, I went to my dentist and found her hygienist hadn’t voted -- Young woman with a child. You know, busy. The dentist, an Iranian refugee as a child, is a fanatic about voting. I’m…

My dad did not have a car in the United States — we lived in Manhattan — but he worked for three months a year in Germany as a photographer. There he had a 1959 Mercedes sedan. He finally gave it up in 1986 or so, and I was shocked and saddened that he didn’t offer it to me... though I did not have a license at the…

I bought Cuphead because I admire the art. I’m not a gamer, though (Doom II was kind of it for me), and I found it IMPOSSIBLE to play. One day I’ll try again...

I read a while back that Hooters has a children’s menu.

White Manhattan — white whiskey, white vermouth, orange bitters and a cherry. Fantastic.

Do they call it a spider tracer?

I don’t know much about the airline business, BUT while a lot of costs have to do with the actual flying, there are probably a lot of costs associated with use of airport resources that have nothing to do with the distance the plane has flown or the mass it carries. A parking space costs the same no matter how far…

It actually means subject to regulation and with a chain of command. Hence, in the South, where the militias were used to crush slave rebellions, you find honorary military titles, such as “Colonel” when they weren’t actually in the army. And these persisted after the 13th Amendment was passed, because you still…

Thanks for the recommendation of the Kona. Never heard of it. I’m too far from work to do this, and I’m in LA which complicates the commute. Have to go from West LA to Pasadena and it would take FOREVER. But if things change and this becomes viable for me, I’ll definitely look it up.