Good for them. Corporate defense lawyers should feel uncomfortable.

Also, Times New Roman's unreadability isn't because it's a serif font. It's because it's got a tiny stroke width and an even more freakishly tiny m-width, and usually absurdly tight kerning. TNR wasn't designed to be comfortably readable, it was designed to be tiny. It was about saving paper.

Funny thing, too: while I was trying to figure out how she did it, I belatedly realized that the Google Streetview picture of that corner from June 2025 shows workers repairing that exact corner after a crash barely 18 months ago. But not one this insane!

Read the whole article, then look at Google Streetview for that address. I'm flabbergasted. How did she get that vehicle up to that speed, then threaded every obstacle on that corner, to hit a car parked that far off the street?!?

We're going to end up having to line every street with bollards.

I mean, supposedly we punish violent crime more severely because it traumatizes the victims more, but when Charles Keating stole the entire Baptist retirement fund, are you going to tell me those retirees weren't as traumatized as a gas-station clerk in a holdup? And for longer?

I can't find it any more, but there was an old, old Get Your War On cartoon that ended with the line, "I'll go along with 'the ownership society' when white collar crime gets the death penalty. I want to see the mother-fuckers get hanged."

Wait ... is the cover of American Canto literally just a sheet of Cloud Dancer? Because that's too funny to be true.

Can anybody, ANYBODY at all, PLEASE explain to me why so many otherwise smart people keep interviewing Scott Galloway? What do they see in him? I've never heard him say anything that wasn't trite, ill-informed, and/or chauvinist. I've seen smarter commentary from middle-schoolers.

Scott Galloway is my Olivia Nuzzi.

I don't understand why anybody cares about Olivia Nuzzi, and apparently that's just because I wasn't reading any of her stuff, wasn't even aware of it at the time.

But this guy has been EVERYWHERE in my feeds forever, and I've always thought he was a moron.

Ghod, I wish we had this in St. Louis.

If you know Taylorism at all, it's by its other name, "Time and Motion Studies." It's an ancestor of modern-day systems analysis.

"... think of
Celebrated heads of state
Or specially great communicators!
Did they have brains or knowledge?
Don't make me laugh!
They were popular!
Please!
It's all about popular
It's not about aptitude
It's the way you're viewed
So it's very shrewd to be
Very very popular
Like me!"

The other important distinction of Planet Fitness's culture is that they are even more fanatical about turning away gym rats, gym bros. No bullying, no criticizing, no competing, no showing off, no flirting: you go there to exercise and get better, or at least stay well. They bounce people for it.

So why Planet Fitness? For one thing, they are fanatical about sanitation. They had a flesh-eating strep scare early in the company's history and ever since they, they will yank people's memberships if they catch them not cleaning each machine after they use it. But also ...

Fitness centers also make it easier than any home gym will to bring a gym buddy, to schedule workouts where, no matter how boring or painful it's going to be, you have to be there for them and they have to be there for you. Be each others' accountability, in a way you can't do solo.

Any gym or fitness center has a wider variety of exercise equipment than any home gym not owned by a billionaire can fit. And the great thing about all of those exercise machines is that they're designed to make it hard to do the exercise wrong. They assume incompetence. They enforce good form.