It's an interesting moment every time I meet someone who recognizes me from Jalopnik. "Hey! You're Doug! From Jalopnik!" they always say. "The guy with the Penus and the CarMax Land Rover!" And then, in all their excitement to learn more about the industry, and all their eagerness to talk about cars, they invariably…

I saw a writer self-plagiarize earlier this year. I never called him out on it, because he wasn't a journalist and had never gone to journalism school,(that I'm aware of). He was like me, someone who had been picked up by a site to write, only he's a legit, paid writer with a wife and kids. Writing is his profession…

Playing around with Kinja. I'm starting the manual admission tag just to post things and thoughts I find interesting or amusing in a free form-ish style. I'm not worried about headlines, images, form, etc. Just tossing things out there. Feel free to add to it.

Is there anything that's riskier than biting into a nut?

Jesus. Really Speed Twitter account?! This disrespectful shit? If Schumi has any awareness at all, it's to get better to see his wife and kids, not some effing soccer game.

When you get a notification on a post you made 6 months ago, only to click and see the commenter called you an idiot. God DAMMIT.

When you try to not get all judgmental about The Sport of Drifting.

This is better. I'm fine with lists, as long as they contain some wit and wisdom. Buzzfeed rarely does either, even in their most base posts. I get it. I'm all for cats, and rugby thighs, and red heads, but that just feels mind numbing to me. I want to feel something, good, bad, sad, or whatever, when I read a post,…