I’ve been watching this car restoration reality show out of Canada, and I’ve realized I have utterly no understanding of what goes on up there.
In the last episode I saw, the proprietor of a competing shop literally yells at the main guy of the featured shop for hiring one of his people w/o calling him beforehand. To make up for this transgression, the guys go over and help that competitor finish a job he outbid them for
It’s like antitrust laws, business sense, and maybe the laws of gravity don’t exist
What I really want is the Irish version of one of these shows. “Every wee lad with a rusted out Pontiac’s got a story. Oh, he’s the prince of pain.”
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I think maybe they don’t realize it’s a rental property? Like they think the president is getting a massive bribe from this guy and they’re the only ones who care. idk
But anyway, the President renting a the chairman of the Kennedy Center’s place for a holiday wknd on Nantucket is totally comparable to the President using the powers of his office to benefit the scammy real estate business he still de facto runs while in office. Go with that.
JP Morgan sues Tesla for breach of contract related to Elon Musk's tweets, seeking to recover "over $162 million immediately due and payable."
Here's a copy of the complaint--the basic story seems to be that JPM exercised a contractual right to reduce the strike price on some warrants it owned after Musk's fraudulent 'going-private at $420' tweet, and Tesla disputes the validity of that move. documentcloud.org/documents/2110…
Manafort prosecutor Greg Andres--who's now in private practice at Davis Polk--is JPM's lead counsel in the lawsuit.
While the delay will irk people, Millett, Wilkins, and Jackson is a way better panel for the Select Committee than the Tatel, Rao, and Walker hydra that some folks were tentatively forecasting.
A defense attorney for the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery is currently objecting to Al Sharpton’s presence in the court room, saying it’s intimidating. “We don’t want any more black pastors in here,” he just said.
The judge isn’t having it. “I don’t hear a motion, and I can tell you this: I’m not going to start blanketly excluding members of the public from this courtroom.”
You can watch the trial live here. The jury is back in now, currently watching a video of deposition testimony. pbs.org/newshour/natio…
I’m sure Caro deserves to be busted on some details like any author of a monumental work, but in decency we can’t let the meatheads at the Washington Post Fact Checker desk do it.
Jones Beach was, at its inception circa 1930, a little model of a totalitarian state.
Legions of state police were stationed out there to make sure you didn’t bring your dog or play games involving balls. Guards in towers peered through binoculars at the parking lots to make sure you didn’t change into a bathing suit in your car. In the ‘50s, Moses explained why.