I’m almost caught up. I start the second to latest podcast tomorrow. I want to thank you very much for the podcast. I really enjoy it.

I’m a big history-geek (should have majored in history, frankly), but the first millennia is an empty chasm to me. You’re helping fill it in. The episode that gave me the biggest…

As a Canadian American I’m completely bemused by people who think of Canadians as a nation of neutral pacifists. “I can tell you have never been to a hockey game.” (or know history, for that matter)

Fernando may not appear all that disappointed, but I would not want to be the next Honda executive that crosses his path.

I am shocked, shocked I say!, that a profanity was uttered in a hockey locker room. Of all places! What’s this fucking world coming to?

Back in the 90s, I told a focus group that it wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft had someone assassinated.

Now that I’ve had a little longer to think about it, if asked I’d answer, “UAW”.

My wife owned a blue 1990 Cavalier where the paint went like that, but while it was still under warranty(!) so she got it repainted.

She said she’d answer with, “Paint died, heater coil, warped dash due to heater coil, back glass fell out... three times. In the shop for a month. Anything else?”

If I thought anyone…

There’s a tendency to fixate on Mattis’ “Mad Dog” nickname. He has another: “Warrior Monk”. I could live with Mattis as president, and I think he’d be better suited, temperamentally, than any of the others on the list.

Aside, Canadian television has different obscenity rules than American television. They allow certain swear words late at night (post 11 pm if I remember right). Some words, though, were still taboo. “Fuck” was okay but “motherfucker” was not for stupid CRTC reasons. The broadcaster had to bleep out at least part of…

As a hockey fan, I welcome a Nashville cup win. I think it would do more to advance the sport than any other team winning since Nashville’s win would be the most newsworthy.

“John Kirk, one of the passengers, said he and some of the others were told that the RV’s owner had cautioned that the two compartments near the front ‘do not work and should not be opened.’”

**screeching sound as my brain shifts gears without a clutch**

If Texas is like Louisiana, removing the inspection will do nothing to affect safety. Louisiana’s inspection basically checks your lights and wipers. That’s it. No brake test. No looking at ball joints. No checking of tie-rods. It’s just a check of your lights, indicators and wipers. Half the time you could have a…

The University of South Florida could go by the initials USFL... but it’s probably best if they didn’t.

I worked in a GM plant for three summers. You don’t want one assembled on a Friday night shift or a Monday morning shift, either.

It wasn’t a playoff game, but I was quite pleased to see that around half the fans at the Dallas Stars game we attended in January were women. And they were for sure fans, not someone who was “dragged” to the game; most were wearing “victory green”.

Maybe the hockey public is split more evenly, demographically, in…

My understanding is that there is only one per year.

The Subaru Impreza Casa Blanca. Buy one and you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.

NFL 2K5 was brilliant. And don’t forget the price: $20! I saw it at a Wal-Mart. I couldn’t justify the $50 or so for Madden, but I could afford NFL 2K5. I was hoping that it would be at least “okay”. I remember playing it that first night and just being blown away by it. I was hoping that this was the start of a great…

That was a Vichy-ous hit that showed a Calais disregard for the Nice-ities of the sport. Clearly he has Angers issues. He Dinan give a damn, he just went up to the ref and Pau!, he drops the ref’s Carcassonne the Grasse. I Dunkerque if they Bayonne him for life as long as the federation Rheims him out.