Thanks for that very thorough breakdown of the reimbursement process. That uncertainty sounds pretty stressful. I definitely understand if it’s not in the cards this year.

I’ll be there in my

You could always bring your Lancer to the Oppo Rally. That's pretty close to Mt. Washington. 

I think that you and I both know that Jim Tomsula would never pay $2.50 for an 8-pack of hot dogs, not when there’s perfectly good meat just laying on the side of the road.

Those 3 Muse albums are fantastic. The new stuff just bums me out.

I don’t follow cricket at all, but I would definitely read more articles about cricket written by Ben.

I hope things go better for her when she returns to the Indy 500 this year driving for Ed Carpenter. I always thought that if she had stayed in Indycar, she’d have won the Indy 500 at least once by now.

I once sold a car with a failing transmission for $1000 to a friend of a friend. I let him pay me $100 a month with the understanding that if the transmission blew up before the final payment he could just stop paying me, no harm done. He actually paid it off early after he got a better job. I knew going into it that…

It’s occasionally also a little bit about the car. They auctioned off a 2018 Ford GT last night for 2.5 million dollars. True, the money went to charity, but that’s also a hard to buy car that will be an investment.

Probably not a full 350k deduction. He can write off anything he paid over market value as a charitable donation, but when he donates it back he can only deduct the market value. So if we say it was worth 75k, he could call it a 100k donation and write off a 75k car. If we say it’s worth 175k, he can’t write off the…

It was donated back twice before someone kept it.

Oh absolutely. The money was split between three charities for veterans. That’s why there’s no need for the author of this article to be concerned about how much someone paid for the Bullitt Mustang. People literally spent $350k on a log.

There’s no rhyme or reason to those charity cars at Barrett Jackson. Last night they also auctioned off a car made out of a cedar log for $175k. The buyer immediately donated it back and it was auctioned off for $100k. That guy donated it back and it was auctioned off for $75k. All this for an old log that tops out at…

I love small cars, and I appreciate how easy they are to park, but this pushes the limits of practicality too far for me. I couldn’t justify that price for a car that would meet my needs some but not even most of the time. I’d guess that I drive over 60 miles in a day about once a week, and over 150 miles in a day at…

Does that apply to your honorary niece too?

To be fair, some of us have pretty cool nephews.

Hopefully this loss leads to a massive downturn in the number of times that I have to hear the word “Swagger” during College Gameday.

As is often the case, it can be difficult to discern tone in these comments. It just feels like I’ve seen countless comments along the lines of “You loved Roy Halladay in Philly? Fuck your grief, we loved him more in Toronto.” And that’s the wrong attitude. He was beloved by both fanbases, and they’re both allowed to…

That’s not what this article is about. I’m sure there are plenty of articles about what he meant to Toronto. This is not one of them. Phillies fans are allowed to grieve for Roy Halladay without always adding an asterisk and saying *”but of course, he meant so much more to Toronto.”

As a counterpoint to your wrong transmission complaint, sometimes it works in your favor. I ended up with a relatively low mileage 94 Miata with a 5 speed manual a few years ago because it was listed as an automatic on the website. Sometimes it pays to expand your search to all transmissions and look closely at the…