Fuck American Airlines. I recently flew them. Had a 2-hour delay that made me miss my connecting flight, and we weren’t notified that there would be a delay at all until when we were originally supposed to be boarding. Then they left all our luggage in the connecting city, and I didn’t have my things for 2 days after…

Points all well taken. Having said that, AA’s reputation for corner-cutting in every other area of its business makes it highly unlikely that they’re performing the sort of exhaustive hardware assessments of your (B) scenario.

*clears throat*

I hate American Airlines so much that we only reluctantly bought a cheapo flight at one point years ago so we could hang on to miles. Pa Vaffanculo flies them only when there’s no reasonable alternative for work stuff, which lately has been often. I steer clear. Alaska Airlines forever!

so their response to raised rates, raised tensions and raised dissatisfaction is for us to lower our expectations?

CNN is a cable news black hole you could lose a plane in.

You may need this.

Meanwhile at CarMax...

The E31 is one of the finest looking cars of the last 30 years to me. Apart from the gigantic taillights, it is just as sexy to me now as it was to me as a boy when it was first released. It should be of little surprise, but these things don’t pop up for sale in great shape all that often.

I love how the 2 door 1 series had to become the 2 door 2 series to make room for a 4 door 1 series. Much like how the 2 door 3 series became the 2 door 4 series, but there’s still a 4 door 4 series if you want 2 more doors than the 2 door 3 series. Luckily, the 2 door 5 series was always the 6 series, but the 2 door…

I hate to break it to you, but political parties are just hunks of voting beef that drift and adapt their platforms over the course of time in order to remain in power.

Personally I think it’s refreshing to be told that your vote doesn’t count for jack shit. I always suspected as much, but I appreciate the honesty.

“e39 M5, the most expensive M car to own”

Of course the real answer is the RS6 Avant. Or any of the other tasty, tasty forbidden fruit that we can’t get because Europeans hate us for our freedom or something. Doug didn’t want you to have the real answer because he’s in the pocket of Big Carmax.

A Miata with an LS swap you say?

Yeah, but it’s only ONE YEAR of coverage. Like my Aston, except MB is a large brand. It’s absurd.

Just came out of a meeting at work to this news. He’s local to me (I live in St. Paul) and a big hometown hero. I would like to go home and cry now. Instead I’ll share this video from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, with his amazing guitar solo at the end.

Who needs motors?

I can’t say nice price. This is one of those cars where ANY mods are a red flag to me. On a vehicle like this, a deep-pocketed owner is wise enough to put the car back to stock before selling, since (a) the car would sell better and (b) the mods can be sold online or locally for far more than they’re worth on the car.…

I’m not even a libertarian. And just because SOME regulations are necessary doesn’t mean that ALL regulations should be accepted without question.