It’s also been a backhanded Cash4Clunkers program, in that drivers are extracting the last $3k in value from their Saturn as part of their employment.

2nd Gear: Are you saying he, um, welched on the deal?

That’s the most galling part about the scandal. All of these kids were going to PREP SCHOOL! The entire point of the institution is to get rich kids into good schools. The sports, clubs, arts are all designed for kids who are looking to get a scholarship or at least admission to a top college. It’s the #1 topic beside…

Car registration fees have been a silly third rail in Washington politics for 25 years. The lack of a state income tax forces the state to go the Fees4Everything route to fund everything. The majority of your total vehicle registration cost will be the sum of the separate fees tacked on to the base cost. The long…

“Squatting”?  The guy is popular enough in Germany as it is without crap like this.

Bob was having a fire sale, so UMPG was the natural choice.

4th Gear: A German company led by a Swede is bound to come up some warm & fuzzy UI software.

Is he married to the Senate majority leader that has packed the courts with grossly unqualified “judges”? Does his family run a Chinese shipping firm that directly profits from knee-jerk US trade policies? Sadly, Elaine Choa isn’t the most corrupt or least qualified member of the current cabinet, but everything about…

I take it as a sign of progress that we’re at least talking about potential cabinet secretaries that actually have the qualifications for the job. Whoever the next Transportation Secretary is can’t be nearly as corrupt as the current one is (Mrs. Turtle). Several departments need to be almost completely re-staffed…

Finally, he finds something to unite us all!

What’s funny is that I recently had a neighbor here in WA that moved in with a truck that had a Utah plate on the front and an expired Arizona plate on the back. She removed the front plate after a few months, but had that expired AZ plate on the back for at least 18 more months. That plate was eye level to any police…

I’m seeing these “repair networks” as a combination of old-time TV repairmen and current cable installers. They will be classified as independent contractors, and probably have to pay a certification fee (kickback) in order to work in a particular geographic region (turf). They may be able to work on multiple brands…

When was the last time you heard of some robot intentionally hiding beer cans in the doors?

It’s either patent acquisition or warehouse robot tech. The future is order fulfillment and distribution centers, and robots don’t pause to pee in a bottle while on the clock.

Any potential buyer of this should see it in person with their most trusted canine companion. This was most likely a K-9 unit, and so you’ll need a friend that can understand its four-legged history.  A couple good whiffs of that back section will be all it takes.

Our tax system currently favors the investor class over the working class by a significant margin. The quickest & easiest route to the investor class, other than birth, is a white-collar job that requires a college degree. If you bust your back for a decade in the trades, you might be making 100k to pay 35k in taxes.…

This is the best answer to the generic question of “What should we do with <car>?”

That’s the best option, where the job is handled by mid-wage state employees. It might be aggravating at times (DMV), but at least there is some accountability and uniformity.

The problem is that such a well intended regulation will be quickly subverted for private profit. Easily bribed state legislators pass an inspection law but farm out the actual inspection regime to a private contractor with bogus claims of “job creation”. That private contractor now has a monopoly on required commerce …

This would also explain his wish for a golf course near Sean, preferably with wide runfairways.