Last week, Justice A. Kirke Bartley was caught using a placard to circumvent parking meters while off-duty. Now this week's The New Yorker reports on the "dashboard diva" wars. (You need a subscription to read full article here) Ground zero is Brooklyn Heights, where one "female executive" is so fed up she keeps a detailed log of the parking habits of placard abusers to aid in a letter-writing campaign. She described a recent interaction with one such abuser: "One day, she confronted a woman and her mother, who were getting into an illegally parked black sedan with medical license plates, which often had a placard in the window. 'I said, 'How do you like your parking space?' the executive recalled. 'And she said, 'I went to school for many years and worked very hard for this.' And I said, 'For a parking space?' And she said, 'Yes.' And her mother said to her, 'Close the window!' "