I’m a designer- sure, I’m just an advertising designer, but one of the biggest lessons in design works across all forms of design- If you want to think “out of the box,” it’s important to understand the box. To know why this box exists. To understand that there are reasons countless other designers have created this…

that one just sailed right over your head, didn’t it?

Until you powerslide into a parking lot glacier.

Wrong. Not driving always beats driving in snow. And it’s less expensive.

The hillbilly halfwits I had in mind were the Graham family. Billy “do as I say” Graham and his reprehensible son Franklin “not as I do” Graham.

Oh, that’s right- “no fault divorce makes divorce too easy” says someone who’s never gone through the agony that is divorce in America.

Straight, cisgendered folks who think that this has nothing to do with you: Please understand. These same folks will come for your birth control. They will come for your ability to hook up with randos. They will come for you.

The difference between what it’s worth to you and what it’s worth to me is the basis of human enterprise.

When Indianapolis decided to turn the old, disused Monon train line into a bike path, I remember people absolutely freaking out that it would become a crime superhighway to the suburbs. Ignoring the fact that Indianapolis already has several highways and freeways from downtown to the suburbs.

Honestly, same. I’m the same age as you and I don’t want to live in an apartment. I like my house. My suburb got swallowed up by the city decades ago. But, My neighborhood has decent bus lines- it used to have like 3 stops but post covid it’s only got one, which is still only a few blocks from my house. The city has…

I remember when cars absolutely represented freedom. But it was a lie back then just like today. Yes, a car could get you out of your parent’s house, leave a bad situation, go somewhere new. BUT these are all things you can do without cars. It’s just that, we built a country in which it’s nigh impossible to do unless…

The... good? news- if things continue the way they’re going, that massive cultural shift will happen sooner than expected.

Of all the scams ever pulled on the American people, linking cars to freedom has to be the biggest. Cars aren’t freedom. They’re expensive and the damage that having “Just Drive” as the default answer to every problem has caused so many more self perpetuating problems.

since everyone isn’t paying for my car, I think it’s OK if I don’t care what they think.

If I had a dollar for every comment I see about how subarus need more power and how not having a manual ruins them...

I’m going to be so happy when “traditional masculinity” AKA “I’m a scared little fella who’s afraid someone will see the real me” goes away and gets replaced with just being a human being who’s happy who they are. 

I can tell you how I got rid of my automotive biases- I got my anxiety under control which helped me stop caring about what anonymous enthusiasts on the internet thought, which got me to examine what I actually wanted out of a car, which got me to look beyond the few manuals left in the world, which opened me up to a…

And somehow, you never have to deal with other cars, traffic, weather or any of the hundreds of other things that cause you to have to slow down? Just saying, the extra speed always gets eaten up somewhere and the drive still takes the same amount of time- the longer the drive, the less useful speeding becomes.

I have a LOT of experience doing these drives. Driving faster equals more stopping for gas and it doesn’t get you to your destination faster. It seems like it should but the math doesn’t work when there’s traffic, weather, other drivers, a need to eat and pee and a need to stop and get gas.

OK so I do a lot of long distance driving- I have a 450 mile drive I have to do 4-5 times a month.

Here’s what I’ve learned- if I set my adaptive cruise at 73mph, I can make it to my destination on a single tank of gas. If one was able to actually do that drive nonstop, it would, according to googlemaps, average out…