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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Handel’s Messiah the Music Ministry and Concert Series of Palm Coast United Methodist Church will present the Christmas portion of Handel’s Messiah, concluding with the Hallelujah Chorus. With professional soloists, a large Festival Chorus, accompanied by an orchestra, this concert is free and open to all. The performers will be accompanied by the Chamber Players of Palm Coast, directed by Paige Dashner Long. Please invite family and friends as well as pass this info onto anyone interested. Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 6500 Belle Terre Pkwy. 4 p.m.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy, Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. 2 p.m. Box office: (386) 255-2431. tickets, $15 to $25. A comedy about a young man who brings home his Jewish atheist fiancée to meet his very Catholic parents on Christmas Eve. With the inevitable family explosion comes an out-of-left-field miracle that propels the family into a wild exploration of love, religion, personal truth, and the nature of earthly reality.
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 2 p.m. The beloved musical about the optimistic orphan who captures hearts (and maybe even saves a billionaire). Perfect for families and the holiday spirit. Book here. (Note: all Sunday matinees are sold out, but there is a wait list you may join.)
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, 124 North Florida Avenue, DeLand. 2:30 p.m. 386/736-1500. Tickets, Adult $37 – Senior $33. Student/Child $17. Book here. Celebrate the magic of Christmas with Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn—a heartwarming holiday treat packed with show-stopping dance numbers, dazzling costumes, and a treasure trove of timeless tunes. When Broadway performer Jim leaves the bright lights behind for a quiet Connecticut farmhouse, he ends up transforming his home into a seasonal inn, open only on the holidays. But with love in the air, rivalries heating up, and performances for every festivity, the holidays get a lot more exciting than he ever imagined. Featuring 20 beloved Irving Berlin classics—including “White Christmas,” “Happy Holiday,” “Blue Skies,” and “Cheek to Cheek”—this delightful musical delivers all the laughter, romance, and seasonal sparkle of a Christmas card come to life. Presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 57 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at the Bridges United Methodist Fellowship at 205 North Pine Street, Bunnell (through the gate, in room 8), and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Byblos: Sophocles’s Ajax is the first of his seven surviving plays, performed around 442 BC in Pericles’s Athens, as the Parthenon was rising and the first Peloponnesian War (with Sparta) had ended. Greece was prosperous, powerful, at peace, like Eisenhower America. Like so many Greek tragedies, Ajax’s plot is absurdly simple, if not absurd. The dramatists were not interested in plot. It was a device, a coat hanger. The coat was the thing, as Gogol reminds us. The setting is in a literary suburb of the Iliad. Paris has killed Achilles with that arrow to his heel, outside of Troy, where the Greeks have spent 10 futile years warring over a whore. Achilles’s armor is to go to the next-greatest Greek warrior. Agamemnon and Menelaus, the two kings, award it to wise Odysseus, that “man of many turns.” Hotheaded Ajax is pissed. He thought he should have the armor. He decides to kill Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Odysseus, because really, when you’re an honorable warrior in the middle of a war, how best to show your honor than by decapitating your leadership over a personal slight. (What was dueling but a perversion of honor codes?) Not for Ajax, Hans Castorp’s notion that “although honor had its advantages, so did disgrace, and that indeed the advantages of the latter were almost boundless.” As Ajax chomps off to his assassinations, the goddess Athena tricks him, making a herd of animals look like his three enemies. The slaughter is merciless, gleeful, like a Hutu’s slashing in 1994 Rwanda. Ajax drags remains to his tent to better enjoy blood as good as wine, he thinks. The animal cruelty is unbound. Ajax is mad. Blame Ajax’s jealousy, and Athena, who boasts of the gods’ power to Ulysses. He is more godly than the gods: “Though he is my enemy,” Ulysses tells the shrew, “I pity this wretch now that he is bowed down by a terrible error and I think of myself more than of him. I see that we, the living, are but a phantasm and a vain shadow.” Ulysses makes two brief appearances, one at the beginning and one at the end of the play, bracketing fanaticism in a savvy of empathy and humanity. In between, Ajax comes to his senses, realizes what he’s done, and is ashamed—not over the slaughter of the innocent animals, not over the realization that he would have been a low-life assassin had he murdered the three men, not that he would have single-handedly ensured that the Greeks lost Troy, but over looking foolish. His pride is hurt. He’s made an ass of himself by failing to murder the men. After what he’s done, or rather what he’s failed to do, Ajax thinks he can’t face his father. So he must die. He must kill himself. “Don’t cure evil by evil,” the coryphee tells him, but no one ever pays attention to the chorus, the only voice of sympathy for innocent animals. He plants his sword, point side up, and falls on it. He summons his slave wife Tecmessa and their mute son Eurysaces. We should all be speechless at Ajax’s madness. Tecmessa’s abjection before her “master” is a bit hard to take, but so it is in so much Greek drama, the founding frat house to the misogyny of Paul, Augustine, and Thomas. Ajax dies barely offstage, hidden by a bush but for the point of the spear, after delivering an ode to suicide almost methodically how-to, that had any of those illiterate moms for liberty read it, would have demanded that all Greek tragedies be removed from shelves. In the event, I don’t think the Greeks are taught anymore in our schools, only enacted. The second part of the play is about Ajax’s body. To bury or not to bury. Here comes Menelaus, one of the three Ajax sought to kill. He wants Ajax’s body to rot in the sand. Teucer, Ajax’s half brother, wants it honorably buried. The two insult each other like two juvenile delinquents in a DJJ waiting room in Daytona Beach. Menelaus insults Teucer’s origins, Teucer tells him he could whip his ass without a weapon (“I could stand unarmored against you fully armed.” For Menelaus, too, it’s entirely personal. It’s a wonder these Greeks could hold it together for 10 years against Troy (“to the great shame of Greece,” as the chorus says). Not enough for Menelaus to act like Andrew Dice Clay. Here comes Agamemnon, outrapping Menelaus: “You there—I’ve been told you’ve dared to mouth foul threats against us with impunity. I’m talking about you, the son of a mere slave, a battle trophy.” Teucer calls Agamemnon’s father a barbarian, defends his own birthright, and in walks Ulysses, separating the two idiots and delivering that sublime speech that will make anyone think twice about insulting the memory of the dead, Charlie Kirk included:
Then listen. In deference to the gods
don’t be so unyielding you throw Ajax out
without a burial. You should not let
that spirit of violence at any time
seize control of you, not to the extent
that you then trample justice underfoot.
This man became my greatest enemy
in all our army on that very day
I beat him for the armor of Achilles.
But for all the man’s hostility to me,
I would not disgrace him. Nor would I deny
that in my view he was the finest warrior
among the Argive men who came to Troy,
after Achilles. So if you dishonor him,
you would be unjust. It would not harm him,
but you’d be contravening all those laws
the gods established. When a good man dies,
it is not right to harm him, even though
he may be someone you hate.
He offers to bury Ajax with Teucer, but Teucer declines the help, his superstitions taking the better of him. Ajax is buried honorably.
—P.T.
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December 2025
Kwanzaa Celebration
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
For the full calendar, go here.
Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No.
Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No.
What is honour? A word. What is in that word “honour”? What is that “honour”? Air. A trim reckoning!
Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No.
’Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it.
Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
–From Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (Act 5, Scene 1).
Ray W. says
Thank you, Mr. Tristam.
As I have commented before, in academia, Aeschylus’ Oresteia marks the oldest reference to a societal substitution of a respect-based law, as against the existing honor-based law of the debt of blood vengeance.
Honor-based law demands vengeance.
Respect-based law commands justice.
The two are not the same; they are not interchangeable; they are not equal.
Vengefulness degrades us all.
When Ryszard Kapucinski writes of the three plagues that afflict mankind, nationalism, racism, and religious extremism, he is describing forms of thought based on vengefulness against the other, not on respect for the other.
In a respect-based society, we do not need to behead Democrats. In a respect-based society, we do not need to slit the throats of D.C. bureaucrats. In a respect-based society, we do not need to throw protesters off bridges. In a respect-based society, “some people” do not need killing.
Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greeks came to understand through depiction of tragedic consequence that vengefulness harmed them all. These ancient Greeks thought the tragedies worth saving. Their descendants thought the tragedies worth saving. The Arab Muslims thought the tragedies worth saving. The Crusaders thought the tragedies worth saving.
For 2,500 years, pieces of paper were preserved, generation after generation without interruption, because, arguably, ideas of respect and justice are worth saving. Had but one of the many succeeding generations thought the tragedies no longer worth saving, they would have ceased to exist.
Synonyms for vengefulness include cruelty, mercilessness, ruthlessness, vindictiveness, malice, malevolence, jealousy, spite, virulence, resentment, envy, …
Psychology.com defines revenge as “an action provoked by a wrong, unlike other forms of aggression that require no provocation.”
There is a reason our founding fathers in that very first Congress amended the original Constitution with, among many other things, a proscription against cruel and unusual punishments.
Pogo says
@Hello Ray
Speak of the devil…
https://www.google.com/search?q=proper+address+of+a+judge
Eleanor Coyne says
Right on the money! I’m sure money was involved in the pardon.
Pogo says
@Melatonin
… wouldn’t hurt to try it.
Today is December 7th.
Ray W. says
A news portal named electrive reports in part that a Chinese EV company, Nio, continues to grow customer access to its battery-swap technology.
Nio designs each of its vehicles to enable use of two different-sized battery packs, 75 kWh in capacity and 100 kWh in capacity.
A customer can purchase any Nio product with or without a battery pack.
Those who buy a Nio complete with a battery can charge them at home or at charging stations; they can also swap out their batteries at Nio battery stations.
Those who purchase a Nio without a battery pack lease the battery of their choice. Again, the leased battery can be recharged at home or at charging stations. They, too, can swap out their batteries at Nio battery stations.
Nio now has over 3500 battery stations located around the country. Nio owners can schedule battery swaps in advance. When they arrive at their reserved time, a battery swap can take less than three minutes. Nio owners pay a fee for the difference between the replacement fully charged battery and whatever remains of the charge in the old battery.
In the beginning, when Nio had few battery swap stations, Nio purchasers who either leased or purchased batteries split 50/50 their choice between the larger battery and the smaller battery. Now, with over 3,500 stations available for use, 97% of Nio owners choose the smaller battery.
Twice, Nio has offered the option of 150 kWh batteries with a range of over 600 miles, albeit a comparatively more costly option. Twice, Nio has quickly dropped the option due to lack of demand.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
For much of the past 34 years, I filled up my wife’s car on a weekly basis. We raised four children. Each Saturday, we discussed what we needed during the coming week: food, socks, shirts, home repair and maintenance supplies, car repair and maintenance supplies, video-rentals in the early years, child athletic needs, bank stops, etc. I did the shopping loop each Saturday with her car. And I topped off her car, whether it needed it or not. Only rarely did she drive so much during a week that she needed to buy gas.
I suppose many others did and do the same, but maybe not.
During most weeks, many of us, perhaps most of us, don’t need the full range that a 15-gallon gas tank offers. We just top off our gas tanks whenever most convenient to avert the chance that we might run out when time presses.
Nio is finding out the same thing. 97% of their customers now choose the smallest optional battery, one that offers around 300 miles of range. They know they can schedule a stop at their convenience on the way home from work and get a fully charged battery in three minutes, paying only for the energy that they consume between stops.
Twice, Nio offered its customers a battery with around 600 miles of range, but they didn’t want it. Nio has found a way to eliminate range anxiety without providing a long range battery; the option just doesn’t justify any extra cost.
Pogo says
@Celebrate
… the beauty and wonder of this world:
New life is coming — here
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and here
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… Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
The mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone: and now the wedding-guest
Turned from the bridegroom’s door.
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
https://poets.org/poem/rime-ancient-mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://www.google.com/search?q=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge
Laurel says
It is the hollow and the sad who chose fake riches over the nature around them,
Ray W. says
The Pogo-approved The Cool Down focused a story on a July 2025 post to X that wind turbines “don’t even work when its cold.” According to the reporter, each winter this false claim makes the rounds whenever “storms cause grid outages.”
The reporter wrote of certain findings after a 2021 Texas blackout. During that hard freeze, [n]atural gas output dropped 70% as equipment iced over and delivery systems failed.”
And, the reporter pointed out that during winter months, American wind turbines produce more power, not less, than they do during warmer months. Denmark relies on wind turbines for a significant portion of its winter electricity needs.
As an aside, any broken down old motorcycle racer will tell you that cold air is more dense than warm air, meaning more oxygen is packed into the same volume of air. Heat air up and it expands in volume. Pulling cold air through a carburetor orifice brings into the combustion chamber a greater quantity of oxygen, all other things being equal. More oxygen in the same space means more power to be made, when mixed with fuel.
Colder air, being more dense, pushes wind turbine blades faster than warmer air.
Yes, ice can build up on turbine blades during winter conditions, but today’s wind turbines have either heating elements wired into the blades to keep ice from forming or the blades are hollow to permit heated air to be pushed through the hollow spaces to keep ice from forming.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Over time, several of the more gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters have laundered the lie that wind turbines as a class do not work during hard freezes.
Recently, I read a comment by one of these gullibly stupid people, in which comment it was claimed that wind and solar output drops were the cause of the Texas grid failure during that 2021 ice storm. That wasn’t the cause of the grid failure. Natural gas flow from extraction wells slowed as the temperatures dropped. Natural gas-fired plant electricity output began to drop as gas turbines began to be starved of fuel. Grid operators shut down portions of the grid to protect other portions of the grid. Other natural gas pipelines shut down as the electric pumps moving the gas stopped working. More natural gas plants shut down. Eventually, catastrophe overwhelmed what little grid was left. People froze in their homes. The professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties began pumping out lies, as they so commonly do. The gullibly stupid among us began laundering the lies, as they so commonly do. Since lies often stick where the truth fails, these laundered lies just keep coming up, year after year after year.
Here are excerpts from a story published by the Houston Chronicle after both state and federal studies of the causes of the grid failure were published:
“Federal and state investigations revealed that failures in the natural gas system were the biggest cause of the outages. But Texas lawmakers have failed to pass any mandatory improvements to it. In August, the State Auditor found that regulators were still failing to inspect and identify deficiencies properly in natural gas delivery. … This winter, peak electricity demand could reach 77 gigawatts. A gigawatt can power 200,000 homes. If natural gas plants don’t drop out unexpectedly, ERCOT says there is only a 1.4% chance of declaring an emergency.”
I do not dispute that a wind turbine that lacks de-icing properties can become less efficient during a hard freeze, but that doesn’t mean wind turbines stop working. And de-icing technology, when designed into the blades, works.
And I understand that there exist malicious people who are more than willing to push internet lies in hopes that the more gullibly stupid among us will launder their lies.
Let’s face facts. Cold air is more dense than warm air, meaning it weighs more than warm air. Newton’s laws of motion (two of the three laws being an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion, until acted upon by an outside force. The third law is Force equals Mass times Acceleration.) prove that cold dense air moving at the same velocity as warm less dense air contains more inertia, i.e., energy, that can be converted into electricity by wind turbines. In a winter storm, windmill output rises, all other things being equal, but so long as ineffectually winterized natural gas wells, pipelines and power plants are in use in Texas, there is always a risk of another grid collapse.
Every FlaglerLive reader ought to know by now to never accept at face value anything said by any member of the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties.
Ray W. says
According to a story published in The Jerusalem Post, “[t]he Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Wednesday that ‘close to $30 billion of US funds were wasted, stolen, or mismanaged,’ during nearly 20 years of American involvement.”
Wrote the reporter:
“… SIGAR said it had documented 1,327 instances of waste, fraud, and abuse from 2002 to 2021, amounting to between $26 billion and $29.2 billion – most of which was classified as wasted funds.”
Many factors, in the reporter’s words, “contributed to the failure of the US effort to transform a war-torn, underdeveloped country into a stable and prosperous democracy.”
And, the reporter said:
“For example, early and ongoing US decisions to ally with corrupt, human-rights-abusing power brokers bolstered the insurgency and undermined the mission, including US goals for bringing democracy and good governance to Afghanistan.”
The reporter concluded near the end of the article:
“… [D]espite nearly $90 billion in US appropriations for security-sector assistance, Afghan security forces ultimately collapsed quickly without a sustained US military presence.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Afghanistan is yet another subject about which the professional lying class that sits atop one of our two political parties lies. And there is no shortage of lie launderers who are willing to spread the lies to the wider FlaglerLive community.
If the figures in the SIGAR report are accurate, the American government invested $90 billion over 20 years into arming and funding Afghan security forces.
A number of the gullibly stupid among us still complain that the Biden administration failed to strip away every bullet, every rifle, every RPG, every Humvee, every truck, every APC, every tank, every helicopter, every airplane, jet or not, from the Afghan security forces when the American military withdrew fro Afghanistan under the terms negotiated by the Trump administration with the Taliban without input from the Afghan government.
These gullibly stupid FlaglerLive commenters think that the Afghan security forces should have faced the Taliban sans any weaponry at all.
I understand that partisan thought does not necessarily involve reason. I understand that James Madison wrote that the worst among us would be those “pestilential” partisan members of faction who will forever walk among us.
The American military, as it walked away from Afghanistan, had to leave behind munitions and equipment for use by the Afghan military to defend itself and the Afghan people.
I am old enough to remember stories about the vast stores of munitions and equipment the American military left to the South Vietnamese government as we walked away to the “honorable peace” declared by our then-president. I have not forgotten the gullibly stupid among us even then who blamed anyone and everyone for the decision to leave it all behind. In the end, we had to leave the munitions and equipment behind. Taking it all with us would have left a denuded South Vietnamese government completely unable to defend itself or its people. Simple as that. That the government still fell was a separate issue.
Somehow, people still fall for the line that nation-building is easy.
After the end of WWII, the United Nations took what is now called the Federated States of Micronesia away from Japan, which had been given protector status by the League of Nations. The UN then gave Micronesia as a protectorate to the United States. The Micronesian state was classified then and still is classified now, as a “nation in need of protection.”
It’s been almost 80 years and the confederation of four Micronesian states loosely organized into a still-weak central federal government remains unready for complete independence. And the Micronesian people are not war-torn.
The Micronesian constitution has a clause that allows U.S. federal statutes to govern where Micronesian statutes do not cover a situation. For nearly 80 years, there have been U.S. magistrates and judges in each of the four island capitals. Federal prosecutors. U.S. Marshals. Federal Public Defenders.
Every 10 years, according to the Micronesian constitution, a referendum is to take place among the Micronesian people. Each time, should the Micronesian people vote to transfer more state power to strengthen the central federal government, the Micronesian people gain more status in the United Nations. The last referendum was held in 2023. The most recent referendum before that was held in 1991. When I last checked in detail, the Micronesian federal government now has a Coast Guard and other security forces and it is recognized in the international community as authorized to negotiate fishing treaties with other nations, but Micronesia is not yet a full voting member of the United Nations. In the 2023 referendum, for example, the people voted to change the fee structure from the fishing treaties. Where once all the fees went to the federal government, now, fees are shared between the federal government and each of the four state governments. The people also agreed that each state should have exclusive jurisdiction over land cases, removing land dispute jurisdiction from the federal Supreme Court.
Somehow, after almost 20 years of waste and fraud and mismanagement, the nation builders of presidential administration after administration believed that war-torn Afghanistan could become a functioning democracy without continuing U.S. protection.
Ray W. says
Per a MarketWatch story, last week Tesla’s Cybertruck turned two years old.
In 2019, Elon Musk announced that an entry-level Cybertruck would sell for $39,900.
In 2023, according to the story, Musk told investors during a earnings call that more than 1 million people had placed orders for the truck.
He added:
“Demand is so far off the hook, you can’t even see the hook.”
When the Cybertruck was released, its entry-level price was $60,990.
During calendar year 2024, the Cybertruck’s sales figure was less than 39,000 units, far less than the announced sales goal of 250,000 units per year.
2025 sales thus far are 17,317 units.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I am too young to remember Ford’s Edsel. Announced to great acclaim, from what I have learned, the Edsel never reached Ford’s goals and was quickly discontinued. In my youth, Chevrolet’s Vega quickly experienced the same fate.