I've been driving a borrowed Miata around Los Angeles the last few days. It's a 1993 model, fairly similar to my 1986 MR2 in size and performance and feel. It actually feels just a bit less peppy, with a narrower power band, maybe 3500 to 4500 RPM. It's a convertible, and that finally prompted me to do something I should have done a long...
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I'd like to see the Supreme Court get more liberal. The notion that the justices make rulings out of the pure substance of abstract law is nonsense. Every justice, liberal and conservative, makes decisions out of a combination of legal reasoning, personal beliefs, political motivations, what impact they think their rulings will have on the...
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After sending only "Disc 1 of 4" the first time, the Stanford records department apologized and said they would get everything to me right away. True to their word, I got four CDs in the mail yesterday, including the latest pictures from my surgery and followup. I've incorporated them into the main post on the crash. In this post, I'll...
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