Sha’Carri is precipitously close to becoming the next in a long line of athletes for whom all the potential in the world winds up amounting to nothing. She’s got the chance to be a genuinely once in a generation athlete. But I’m afraid that, ten years from now, she’ll be one of those folks who we’ll all think about,…

Levar Burton polls high among STAR TREK fans — and the Venn Diagram of TREK fans and JEOPARDY fans has a lot of overlap, Bruce from Missouri.

Does it take thirty minutes for you to take a piss?

16 hours straight. That was my dad whenever we were on vacation. In shitty sixties and seventies VW Type II’s.

100 mph vs 60 mph is a big difference. I remember decades ago when I got my 1995 Accent up to it’s top speed of 105 how fast I came up on somebody going the legal speed limit on an otherwise empty interstate. (This was at night on I-70 going home to St. Louis from DC, not my normal speed, I just wanted to see how fast…

My 2001 Ford Focus with 130 hp will hit 120 mph eventually. My old 2003 Toyota Corolla with 130 hp would hit it’s limiter at about 112. It would clearly go noticeably faster if it wasn’t for the limiter.

There’s a big difference between Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson.

Thanks for proving me right.

That’s true.

You calling someone else fragile. lol.

So, zero and almost zero?

IIRC, CR reliability ratings go back 10 years, so all of the dead brands will fall off after they’ve been gone for 10 years.

These days, SOME all season tires actually are. Very few, though.

Old school Mercedes diesels, and that’s about it.

My old Ford Focus is a German car built in Mexico by an American company.

It depends on the tire. There is a vast range of capability between different models. Some all seasons are almost as good as a snow tire, some aren’t even close.

Some older cars DO crumple. The problem is, they crumple in bad places, like the cabin instead of the engine bay.

The weird thing about the Corn Pop story is it actually seems to be true, at least as far as anyone can tell

I notice that more drivers are more aggressive when I am in my Prius, as in getting tailgated, cut off or pulled out in front of than the other two.