What happened: Traffic was really slow. A long line of cars was going 35 in a 45 and it looked to be the fault of the car in front of the line. The driver was simply going 10 under the limit. So I decided to pass. All of them. It was a passing zone, a long straight piece of 2-lane highway in bright sunshine. As I…

they are going to do what is possible and cheap. they will probably reflash the ECu and downgrade your mileage and performance. Nothing else is physically possible without a complex/expensive mechanical retrofit of a urea system. don’t wait for unicorns to shit lemon cupcakes. to my mind the states should be taking…

VW - when the crime is lying, why does anyone attend briefings or publish corporate propaganda materials? Why should we believe ANYTHING AT ALL that VW says? From now on everything must be independently verified - mpg, exhaust, tech specs, investment information, everything. Forever.

I own an ell-electric car so I am fully qualified to make this public service announcement:

someone is gonna have to go rig the jack. probably it uses removable lifeline stanchions like a submarine.

with a class of 3, this thing already sounds like Surface Seawolf. be prepared for supplier bankruptcies, uber expensive repair parts (if you can find them), and one of them always at the pier. or not. sometimes history does not repeat. sometimes.

how to make a steel frame look like an aluminum frame: fools the eye.

do not be afraid of amanita. like most things (and virtually all of your “food”) it is all about safe preparation. pick them fresh. be sure what you are picking (easy with amanita). slice them up. bake them at 210f +-10 until the chunks are crispy and bone dry. powder the dried chunks in a coffee grinder. mix with…

weird?

they imprisoned and tortured Muntadhar al-Zairi, the shoe-thrower. bush laughed all the way to his private box in hell.

that man should go immediately to prison. full stop. no discussion. unless the runner had a nuclear device in his back seat and was going to detonate it in the city unless he was murdered within the next 30 seconds there is no excuse.

Chases are rarely “worth it” as far as any societal benefit or mission accomplishment. To my mind the reason any cop ever chases someone is because of emotions. Cops have one primary rule - you gotta do what they say. It is why men become cops, so they can get that. It is the violation of that cop prime directive that…

Fair enough. I have only seen HD and Kawasaki on the road, and the KZ’s...are they even in service any more? I was able to Google up the Honda (seems like they didn’t like it much).

I have ridden pretty much every kind of bike. I have had a few Harleys and I have had race bikes and dirt bikes. This is true about some Harleys: they have a lot of weight below the axle height and actually handle quite well at walking speeds. I could dance my Fatboy around a parking lot all day by dragging the rear…

Cops can only buy cop bikes from manufacturers that make cop bikes. That aint many. Also, the whole “Made in ‘Murka” thing matters. Perceptions. The copping business is a psyop. They have to manage perceptions. Part of the perception is nostalgia; hence the Hogs. And they need us to think they are not Stasi. Of…

Same as it ever was. This is the global players fighting over resources and power and using the rest of us as cheering section, pawns, and fools. Truth is the first casualty of war. I would amend that to say “The sacrifice of truth is a prerequisite of war.” This war against Islam, which is really a war for resources…

my tail is more of a cat tail than a monkey tail. it is not under total control, but is more of a reflector of mood. it is reactive and indicative. as such it needs to be displayed and not tucked behind a seat. I don't think anyone wants to poke their tail through a seat hole.

if we had tails there would be tail clothes, tail-do's, tail decorations, all kinds of bullshit. So they would need to be disl

I am going to buy a used VW this weekend. I had a 2004 GLI and I loved it but sold it for a truck. sigh. Don’t ever do that. And then I bought an electric car, a Leaf, because gas was over $4.00/gal and I thought it would keep going up. I was wrong. Well, now the Leaf is losing range (battery cycles..sigh) and so I…