Before Marcel made it to the Oakland Zoo, though, it spent a night in the arresting officer’s home before being left in the care of Madera County Animal Services.

Different kind of wackiness in California too. In Florida the dude would have been pulled over on a John Deere riding lawn mower while 2/3 through a six pack of Natty Ice, with a pound of crack, a crossbow and a baby Caiman.

Yeah... to save money they put this rail in the corridor of US-1 (a significant highway) which has many connecting roads per mile and barely room for a shoulder before the rail. At many of these crossings, when you turn right off of US-1 you have barely 2 or 3 car-lengths before you are in the train path. This both…

Originally, it was a buzzing bush that Moses thought was god talking to him, but after having to dive in the lake to escape the angry bees, he lied and made up the burning bush story to save face.

“Carter’s most enduring legacy will be this: He tried to leave America a little better than he found it.”

From a time when Nissan still made interesting cars, and 0-60 in 8 seconds was blistering performance. My NA 4 banger does that now.

Don’t do it!

Florida has basically turned itself into one big dawrin award competition. Building “high speed” rail with three hundred plus grade level crossings is just part of the game.

But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Terrific article. He was an under-appreciated and forward-thinking man. Sadly we seem to be in just the same type of situation now, when one rational president is about to give way to one that only feeds on American’s greed and hedonism. 

I had some foreign policy disagreements with him. That said, he was the most decent, honest, ethical, moral and law-abiding person to ever serve as the President of the United States. And, while perhaps not the best politician, he was definitely one of the most intelligent to have held that office. Reagan and the…

The government basically cosigned a loan.

Reagan’s people communicated with Iran to hold the hostages until after the election, so what’s happening with the feckless Republican Party today is nothing new.

“Carter was the first president to bail out an American automaker, Chrysler, with a $1.5-billion Treasury loan.”

Jimmy Carter was both a good President and a good man through and through. Conversely, there’s not a decent cell in Trump’s body, unless it’s a cancer cell. The “malaise” (a word President Carter never used) of the late 1970s looks pretty good compared to the utter shitshow we’re about to face.

The same people who bitch endlessly about politicians being corrupt and useless are the people who vote for reagan over Carter and trump over Biden, and somehow never make the connection.

Genuinely great piece, Erin.

I never voted for Jimmy Carter, but I have nothing but respect for his legacy.

My Republican father who was an engineer in a nuclear power plant highly respected Carters experience as a nuclear engineer and submarine commander. When Carter introduced the solar panel tax credit he immediately installed them on the roof of our house where they not only provided a more than adequate source of hot…

Jimmy was the first POTUS I voted for. The rest of the country went with the “trickle down theory”. And we all see how that went.