As I wrote in I’m Short Of Marbles, I have become a “Board Member” for Everyday Driver through the purchase of the highest level Patreon membership available for the show. Turns out I don’t have to wait long for the first “board meeting” as it will occur this evening.
I never liked work meetings even when I worked for Major League Baseball teams. Those meetings for one of the teams I worked for were known around the office as the “Weekly Waste Of Time Meeting.”
Of course, this meeting should be enjoyable, in part because it’s only supposed to last for a half hour. I might have to break down and to buy a camera/microphone for my desktop computer for future meetings and other applications. Since I don’t have one, I will have to use my iPhone to participate in tonight’s meeting and, of course, an iPhone does not exactly have a large screen.
As this will be the first meeting in which I will participate, I will actually try not to say anything unless I’m asked directly. I suspect many of the other “Board Members” have had that status for a long time and I do not want to appear to be an interloper.
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No, I did not watch the debate between the Vice-Presidential candidates last night. Did you really expect me to watch?
In this Jake Novak piece on Substack he argues that, once again, the hosting network and its moderators were really the losers. Remember that Novak spent 30 years in the TV news business. Here is one of the five points he offered:
“The world is on fire with raging wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe & these crises were barely mentioned in what looked like not just an attempt to make the Biden-Harris years look more calm, but also an egregious example of how these TV anchors are so disinterested in promoting the news business itself. There was nothing [Norah] O’Donnell or Margaret Brennan did last night that would make anyone interested in watching CBS News or any news on any night.
They are so clearly unable to create interesting news television even in this globally volatile environment. This may be a surprise to many of you, but in my 30 years in TV news, I worked with precious few people who were really interested in the news content itself. To them, it was a job only. [emphasis mine] O’Donnell and Brennan came off as joyless as many of my colleagues were over the years.
In the end, this is the flaw that is killing regime/mainstream media the most: it’s boring, and it’s highest-paid “personalities” are devoid of personality and noticeably bored with their jobs and themselves.”
Quite a damning exposition, wouldn’t you say? I think it is par for the course in the US that people dislike their jobs. I guess that’s true even in more “glamorous” ones.
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If Kamala Harris (there, I’ve written her name) loses the election, then I think current California governor Gavin Newsom would be the early favorite to be his party’s Presidential nominee in 2028. Here is something from a recent Free Press article (sorry, but once again you cannot read most of these pieces without a subscription) that is relevant to the topic:
“California governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that bans private colleges and universities in the Golden State from considering a student’s family history of attending a school. ‘In California, everyone should be able to get ahead through merit, skill, and hard work,’ Newsom said. If only he sang the same tune after the Supreme Court ruled last year that colleges can’t discriminate based on race.”
As a firm believer in “Meritum Supra Omnes!” I also oppose legacy admissions to colleges and universities. I oppose any consideration other than merit. First Earn, Then Receive!
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Good news and not so good news…this Hemmings piece reports that the 2025 Morgan Plus Four will be sold in the US. The bad news is that since the car will be built under the provisions of the FAST Act no more than 325 units can be produced in any given year. From Hemmings,
Of course, for years the Federal Government held up actually writing the rules for the small provision of the FAST Act (passed in 2015) that allowed for replica cars to be built. Can’t stop those un-elected bureaucrats from gumming up the gears…
As for the car itself, it will be powered by a turbocharged 2-liter, four cylinder engine from BMW and available with either a six-speed manual transmission or an eight-speed automatic. The car will probably cost $80,000+ in the US although, per the article, Morgan claims that “at least a couple hundred examples are already spoken for.”
Under the replica car provision of the FAST Act, I think a company could build, up to 325 units per year, a replica of one of these, but I’m not sure since it wasn’t actually a production model.
Of course, shown above is the legendary Buick Y-Job, universally acknowledged as the first true concept car when it was introduced in 1938. Again, if my wonderful wife and I ever won many, many millions in a lottery, one of the first things I would do would be to commission someone to build me a replica of a legendary concept car. Either the Y-Job or Tom Tjaarda’s gorgeous Rondine would get the nod.
Hey, if we won enough money I would get one of each built. “Hey you, wake up, wake up!” Sometimes the real world is a real downer.
#Board(Bored?)Meeting
#MeritumSupraOmnes!
#MorganPlusFour
#IfYouDon’tHaveDreamsYouHaveNightmares