Ever driven in France or Spain or Sweden or Germany? Because you just described highways there. Bonus, trucks are speed-limited and relegated to lanes so far right even Sean Hannity finds them to be a bit harsh. Every time I come back from Europe, I want to murder someone within 1 miles of leaving the airport.  Also,…

I read a bunch of that link, and I think the implication is you have a duty to yield...when safe to do so. If you are passing 3 cars at a +5 mph, and someone jumps on your bumper, you have no obligation to cut into a gap between two of these cars and jam on your brakes to let the guy suddenly tailgating you pass.

That is one of my favorite episodes of TAL. However, in fairness, they don’t really do any shady things to their customers, it’s more about the crazy games they play to to meet quotas. And while they have a sell-at-all-costs mentality, those costs are often to themselves, cutting prices just to make numbers. The fact…

If you showed me a lineup featuring a Cadillac CT4, a zebra, the planet Neptune, and Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio, I still could not tell you which one the CT4 is.

I know you cannot judge severity by the level of damage (these things are designed to collapse/crush after all), but I was actually thinking such (apparently) catastrophic lower leg injuries in an ultramodern luxury SUV, this feels like some poor crash performance. I can see maybe being trapped like he was, but the…

Underrated right here.

Happy this will make lives easier on our mail carriers, but man, this thing is butt.

Why so mad, bro? What didn’t I read? The delaying of doomsday provisions in financial bills is par for the course, and the Trump plan certainly has terrible Doomsday provisions that nobody is paying attention to. You do the accounting in such a way to claim you are not killing the deficit because in the future, rates…

Yes, that’s the path I identified. The most typical things that made up high itemized deductions were mortgage interest (essentially uncapped except as it relates to home value, I think $1 million), and State and Local taxes (SALT), which are limited to $10,000. For me, I pay about $10,000 each year in SALT. But I pay…

Right, I work in infrastructure. To be shovel-ready, a design and permitting and local/state/fed approvals and NEPA and wetlands and zoning, etc. need to be complete. And nobody incurs the cost of all that without a plan to have construction funding already in place. So while some shovel-ready stuff existed (because…

I no longer consider myself a Catholic at all, but I still embrace the Golden Rule and Help the Poor stuff that my 12 years of Catholic school taught me. And yeah, Jesus was a 100% socialist who probably didn’t love guns or the death penalty and wanted people to pay their taxes (Give to Caesar and all that...).  

How did your taxes increase? I think the only tax increase I can recall in my 45 years is Obama raised the highest(?) bracket maybe 4%, which was fine with me. I suppose under the Trump plan the main path I see to an increase was for high-itemizers - especially SALT - getting limited on property and local/state tax…

Oh hell no. But keep in mind Waco was in 1993, and they were lily white, bonnet-wearing religious fanatics, and the ATF went in there with tanks and machine guns. That said, white people (and they are my people), get a pass on damn near everything. Look at the Bundy clan taking over the Forest Service office a few…

There were many non-very fine people on both sides., that’s for sure. These were simpler times and they were mostly characterized as assholes with wacky beliefs mucking up an otherwise quiet Philly neighborhood (they had farm animals in pens on the sidewalk in front of their rowhome, among their many eccentricities) .…

I remember watching MOVE live on TV when I was 10. Too young to understand what was really going on. There are some great long-form articles about it and some documentaries. Super interesting stuff. The MOVE cast were wackos, but the bombing sure as hell does not seem like the right solution.

Auto aside, 10 speeds is just...too many, like the pillows on a Progressive commercial couch. Our MB has 9 speeds, it’s too many. I’ve driven a Mustang GT with the 10 speed, it’s like 3 too many. Constant shifting and hunting. And to the guy with the S4 and the DSG, our old TDI wagon had the DSG and I do agree those…

Do you also get super excited when you hear the song Panama?  I know I still do.

You admit the market is tilted towards them, and of course it is and has been, first technologically (oil > coal) and since the 1950's +/- , also politically. Because you see, there is no such thing as a free market except in Ayn Rand wet dreams - the market is incentivized by government policies and subsidies whether…

I can’t fault you for that, they were awesome cars in the 90's! And I would have killed for a 3000GT VR4 in high school. But I think by 2000 the Eclipse had lost the turbo and gotten totally bloated. To think I actually almost bought an Integra Type R, too. But they could only offer me a yellow one, and I was not woke…

That’s my 2000 GT-S right there, looking that good with 382,000 miles on it. And the interior looked the same. Bought it new in June 2000...lost it to a deer in June 2020, the year that kept on giving. I miss that engine every day. Sure, it can’t spell torque, but in the higher revs it was a total joy and unlike…