Two great quotes of note

• Dan Neil — best automotive writer since PJ O’Rourke stopped covering the damn things: “I had plenty of time to contemplate these mysteries after topping off the ML320 CDI with $5-a-gallon diesel in Los Angeles and heading nonstop toward Monterey. Whizzing up Interstate 5 — oh, dear — I was getting 24 miles to the gallon, which is downright respectable for a 4,817-pound sport utility vehicle with the aerodynamics of a catapult-fired rhino.”
• Roy Blount Jr. on Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me regarding a certain phrase in the news last week: “Used to be you could kiss a pig and no one would know about it.”

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