It will never make it into production, but I adore that bench seat in front.

You might be onto something. Without coal to get out of Appalachia there won’t be too many reasons for cash-strapped red states to keep maintaining all the roads through the mountains. For the few people who remain in the hollers of West Virginia and Eastern KY in a decade or two, going back to horse and buggy might…

I’d say those farmers aren’t just shut out of the soybean market in China for the time being, but instead for the foreseeable future. A lot of those contracts have gone to farmers in other countries. Once you lose a customer it is hard, and expensive to get them back. 

I used to work for a non-profit where I occasionally supervised state prisoners who were on work release or in a halfway house-like program. Most of them were constantly sick and had this horrible rancid/chemically odor. One day one of the guys showed me his lunch. Two slices of bread and a single slice of this…

You must hang around some nicer libertarians than I do. Had to love my college econ professor (endowed chair by a big name pro-libertarian CEO you have heard of). “Without government intervention, here is the supply curve for health care, and here is the demand curve. People above this point have health care, those…

That’s Cerrunnos, Lord of the Forest. The Pence’s are secretly Pagan. Their white bread exterior is a best attempt to assimilate. That’s why they come off as so hollow. Fortunately, since Christmas is already pretty much a pagan holiday they can lose the charade for a bit and loosen up.

Can we talk for a minute about who the f**k goes to Hawaii and orders New England clam chowder? And bread bowl? 

When not cooking in cast iron I’m a huge fan of older Revereware. You know, the copper-bottomed pots your grandma used. Hit up thrift stores or ebay for an older set (I understand the newer sets have gone to cheaper construction). They are inexpensive, heat evenly and are indestructible. Every once in a blue moon I’ll…

When not cooking in cast iron I’m a huge fan of older Revereware. You know, the copper-bottomed pots your grandma…

Watch her daughters too. They are definitely doing the “what’s wrong with Mommy” glance. I don’t see them looking at their father at all. 

Weezer’s cover of “Africa” is totally lame, but somehow Weird Al doing an equally lame cover of Weezer Covering Africa while also at the same time “covering” the video for Undone while wearing the sweater from the“Buddy Holly” video which was itself sort of a cover of “Happy Days” is just exponentially meta enough to…

Ironically, from what I’ve read, Harlan Sanders biographers don’t think he used the term. They acknowledge that he used the term “negro” which would have been contemporaneous, and of course the racial history of the seersucker plantation owners suit, but also point out that there no evidence he was in the Klan,…

It’s less about tires are more about an extra couple inches of ground clearance and my willingness to get stuck somewhere with no cell reception and three small kids on board. I used to take my little ford ranger out creek-crawling with my Jeep-owning friends. Never got stuck too bad that I couldn’t work my own way…

Even after the vomit stage it’s sticky fingers, melted crayons, spilled drinks, muddy cleats, teenage BO,.... Give me hard plastic and vinyl floors until they are out of the house.

My minivan is lousy on gravel roads that are anything less than perfectly maintained. We do a lot of camping and getting back to a trailhead or USFS camp site can be tough in a minivan. I’ll look hard at one of these when they start to show up in the used market.

Father of twins. If you feed one at a time, the cycle of eat-burp-diaper never ends, because as soon as one is done, the other is awake and screaming. But two hold two babies plus hyper-extend your wrists around their heads to hold two bottles at just the right angle is agony. Flip nothing onto shoulders and cross…

I worked for the scouts for a number of years. We all hate that troop and every council has one.

It’s only goal is to sow chaos.

I’m sure his core supporters are still true believers, but at least from the redder branches of my family tree there has been pretty conspicuous silence lately. I think they are starting to get nervous. I wonder how well McConnell is sleeping tonight knowing Trump now has the nuclear codes.

Can you imagine being this guy’s grandchild deciding to write a school paper on dear old Gramps? This is going to be an embarrassing sting for generations.

https://goo.gl/images/9FqVNj Bagdad Bob. Well, at least it looks like the post WWII world order will be ending with a figgle, not a bang. The US will never have the bully pulpit again.