“PEERING THROUGH the sweat trickling into the corners of my eyes and the heat haze pouring from the bonnet, the lairy stickers and paint job really aren’t needed to reveal that this Vauxhall VX220 Turbo has been through a radical transformation. I press the throttle and further confirmation arrives with the cacophony of induction noise, turbo whistle, dump valve explosions and exhaust snarl.”
–Peter Grunert, Top Gear
Unfortunately, Top Gear’s taken down the story from which I grabbed the quote. Here’s more on the car from evo Car Reviews: Vauxhall VX220 Turbo Sprint
A new tax, of course. Half a cent, I think. SB 314 was also recently passed in this crazy-progressive legislative session (taking advantage of Davis having his back to the wall).
I, for one, look forward to the day I can take a train from Santa Monica to Hollywood or Pasadena. I also think that when that day comes, traffic will be so horrible that I really wouldn’t want to go any other way.
It looks like we’re finally going to link Downtown Culver City to Downtown LA in a way that makes sense. The MTA has proposed building the Mid-City/Exposition Light Rail Transit Project to connect the two downtowns. This is pretty awesome. It’s too bad they didn’t start this project ten years ago. I’d love to be able to take the train to class. Driving takes between 30-60 minutes. The bus takes over an hour. The train would probably take 30 minutes. Kick ass.
QUESTION 3: If you could remove any of the 50 states, which would it be? Be prepared to give specific reasons why you chose the state you did.
I think the analysis they offer is missing an option:
Case (f) is that the state is absorbed into another. In this case, my non-partisan choice is Rhode Island. Since one can throw a baseball from one end to the other, it really shouldn’t exist as a state. My partisan choice is one of those states that has voted Republican consistently and with large majorities over the past 20 years.
