This truck weighs 800 pounds more than a comparable 2011 Ranger.

Thank you, Norman.  Godspeed.

“Police state” is one of our favorite dystopian alternatives because in our collective cultural experience cops can sometimes be mindless, remorseless, rule appliers who rejoice in the punitive use of the force with which they have been entrusted. A few years ago there was a publicized case involving a motorcyclist…

If you’ve been cooking your sales books to boost share prices (10b-5 violation) and making back door payments (bribes) to union officials, the last thing FCA would want would be an enema-deep “due diligence” audit.

I assume he’s already offered it back to Eddie, who turned it down? If Eddie don’t want it, Jimmy don’t want it.

This is why we can never have any nice things. 

Noteworthy vehicle. But the seller’s breathtaking chutzpah is even more noteworthy. CP

Does Enterprise R-a-C “jack up” their rentals?

<sigh> Your superpower is aligning yourself with bacon. Stay in your lane.

Neutral:

They aren’t “illegals.” They are human beings. And they have an internationally-recognized right to seek asylum. If you believe you live in a world only as wide as fingertip to fingertip, that attitude may make sense. But that’s not the world our government has agreed to live in.

Porsche had a “secret” Indianapolis engine that they backed out on, too. So did La Scuderia.

1st Gear; 2d Gear

This is a lovely car, as well as an apt metaphor for Britain in the 80s: Draped in tradition and elegance, but possessing much less than the power it had wielded in the past.

Ask at the Missoula Chabad. (Beyond that, I got nothing.)

Kate: Your assumption that you cannot get a good bagel outside of NY/NJ is unnecessarily and foolishly self-denying. I’ve had bagels in NYC and Westchester. There are various levels of bagel perfection and I’d rate the choices there as equally variable.

If you want to buy me a V-4, make it a Fulvia HF

I recall seeing a LOT of DIY vinyl repair commercials on daytime TV decades ago. (I guess people who watch daytime TV don’t have cash for professional vinyl repair? I sure didn’t back then.)