You write it (mostly), you get to cast yourself in it.

Saw the show live - King George is the only one who speaks directly to and responds to the audience, and it is effing hysterical. The spittle-spewing maniac is so much more impactful live than in the video, and even the video you can get a sense of it.

Nintendo Pro controller.

My first thought was, could someone more talented than I buy this, do an acclaimed but apparently boring LS swap and have a great looking, reliable but odd-sounding BMW?

I was NP but went CP for exactly the reasons you list out - I fail several criteria.

It was, as you note, a compromise.

I do not like trucks in general. I do not like the Bronco, then or now, and I stopped liking Jeeps when I was 25. Performance engines leave me cold - I like high mpg and efficiency.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Halle Berry described it that way years ago, and when we had our kids I remembered the line and was like ‘yup. Thats it!’

And please never let my kids cry desperately at my floating, dead corpse as fear overwhelms them and they wonder why I dont answer.

When friends have their first kids and they ask me what its like, I tell them ‘prepare for gut wrenching fear that never ends, but is totally worth it’, because of stuff like this, or worse.

That became clear when I read the whole thing - I just found the particular bit so overwhelmingly hypocritically wrongheaded that I had to note it.

And, we have no common culture from which we all came, as did Greek or Roman culture.

Seconded. Got that for my 10 year old, very white, daughter - we make sure her reading list is balanced - and she loved it.

When I read it I was struck by this:

Went to a local BLM protest.

These are people who think NPR are biased because they ask hard questions of conservative guests... and liberal ones.

Expected Revenue = Price * Likelihood (of a buyer)

The price is way too high for a curiousity, as opposed to a classic.

Wouldn’t you rather have a beer?