TIM CAVANAUGH: Carmageddon: L.A.’s Biggest Nothing Since Tom Bradley. “I spend a lot of time mocking the pretensions of mainstream journalism, but Carmageddon has reminded me of one point on which reporters really have some authority: You have to work in the news to understand how stupid the news is. In this case, the vacating of L.A.’s streets in the middle of summer will be seen as a success, and while everybody’s breathing a sigh of relief, nobody will remember what a pain in the ass it was to make way for the addition of a carpool lane that will do little to relieve the actual day-to-day congestion on the 405. Or actually, they’ll remember it next year, when the second half of this project is slated to be done, and we will all have to go through this charade again.”