I don’t think you have to be brown if you’re wearing the headscarf. Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians often have light skin and sometimes blue eyes.

Funny how these things are only suspicious if the subject isn’t white or is wearing a very common Muslim head covering.

So much for my theory that “No one’s going to cut down this tree to steal my bike.”

I just don’t respect Miatas. I try to. But I just can’t.

I didn’t have much respect for MGBs or Triumph TR6es either. Unless they had a small block Chevy in them like my boss at Disney.

When you’re a lanesplitting motorcyclist in Los Angeles, you keep passing through a pack, then there’s a space where the front of the pack is accelerating to catch the back of the pack in front of them. Then you get to the front and you either see what’s causing the problem.

Twitter needs federal legislation that directs it to censor abusive tweets. Which would essentially indemnify it against lawsuits that claim censorship (though as a private company, it should have that as a right anyway, but we know how that goes).

Of course, now that it’s been shown that Twitter can censor abusive…

I expect video clips on Ridiculousness or Tosh.0 from the imitators who don’t do it right.

The wealthy have a VASTER percentage of the country’s wealth, so of course they pay the majority of taxes. But they pay FAR less than they should, and FAR LESS than they have.

One percent of the country owns 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. If wealth were distributed evenly (an economic impossibility), 40 percent of…

Canada looked at NAFTA as its industrial savior. Looks like it’s biting Canada in the ass instead, as their “cheap by American standards” turns out not to be “cheap by Mexican standards”.

The Canadian factories were opened to weaken the bargaining power of American unions. They will be closed because their unions have…

So they’ve figured out how to create a stun gun that can be used as an emergency defibrillator?

Mel Brooks should do an updated Producers, but instead call it “The Startup”.

When I was a kid, there were always stories about kids who died after thinking their mother’s prescription Valium or sleeping pills were candy.

In California, you only get that stuff with a prescription. As far as prescription medication incidents go, in this case no one was going to die unless they ran in front of a…

The Kia Optima review is about all you need to know. Ride in one that is fully optioned, and if you can get over the badge you can have a near luxury car for $25K or so.

The irony is that BMW came up with a peppy Caddy ELR. Which got absolutely creamed by the Tesla Model S.

I believe the wealthy have collectively bargained on taxes for over 35 years. Very successfully, I might add.

and the streetcars were owned by private companies that didn’t want to spend any money on improvements

^^^This is how we know that electric cars have arrived, and there’s a new breed of gearhead who will never give a shit about fuel injection, supercharging, turbo charging or exhausts.

All they’ll care about is killowatt hours, draw down and amps. Someday they’ll install those new pseudo-superconducting power cables to…

Yeah, I dunno about that. I pretty much doubt you’ll beat me splitting the Sepulveda Pass on a bicycle. LA is full of hills that slow a bike down. You’d have to go suicidally fast down the hill to make up the lost time.

While the claim is true for short distance rides on streets with controlled intersections, a bike…

It’s really hard for non-motorcyclists to see how lane splitting can be done safely, and how much more dangerous it is for a motorcyclist to be stuck in stop and go traffic in front of a jacked up pickup truck that can’t even see them over their front hood. Or any car these days, since people always seem to be texting…

You suggested it. You’re now president of the company that has to make it happen.