NC resident and Duke Energy customer here. Coal isn’t what it used to be here. Duke Energy has an active program to decommission their coal-fired plants thanks to a huge coal ash spill a few years back that’s caused them a fair bit of legal grief. It’s hard to get exact figures but the amount of coal-fired plants has…

“GASOLINE IN LEFT EAR WHILE CHANGING FUEL FILTER”

That’s because they mostly play to the Southern California housing market. We wound up looking at houses in the northern San Diego/southern Orange County area and jeebus I swear every third place had the same Lowe’s bargain-bin “makeovers.” And yeah, yep you’re looking at 800K unless you’re buying a house that hasn’t…

I suspect there’s some history there...at one point disk brakes suddenly became A Thing. A long time ago my Dad was looking to replace our aging 1967 Fairlane wagon. The Volvo dealer took us (my Dad, my Mom, myself and one of my 5 siblings) out for a test drive. The highlight of this drive was a 70 mph run down a…

Also, I think the president of South Korea deserves some credit too.

I worked with a couple of Germans who were over here in the U.S. on a joint project. NOTE: this was in Raleigh, North Carolina and about 4 hours’ drive from the beaches. These guys loved the beaches. Every weekend they’d book it to the ocean and drive their rental cars like they were stolen.

Please tell me this isn’t common on SoCal roads. I’m looking at moving to the Oceanside/Vista/Carlsbad area. Sheesh. Might as well stay in NC where I know what brands of batshit driving to look out for.

Not this old codger. Right now own two BMWs (2000 M5/2016 M3). And until I got these no random person ever came up to me and commented on how good my car looked.

You have no idea how large the bullet you dodged on this. Many years ago , in a fit of madness we bought a ‘74 XJ12. It was a one owner car (although you’d need a Ouija board to talk to her) and appeared to run just fine.

Thank you. I am just now able to discuss this publicly (my brother was killed in 2011). The absolute worst part of this was that my father had to go to the mortuary and identify my brother’s body early that morning. He was never the same after that.

This is pretty much how my brother died. Hit & run in the wee hours of the morning (3:30 AM). The guy that hit my brother drove off and hid his car; he was arrested after neighbors spotted him parking his car in a relative’s parking lot and driving off in his son’s car.

Curt Schilling? Cash donations? Nah...maybe it’s just me but there’s a ton of trust issues here.

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Don’t forget post-stroke Wilson. But there’s a twist here...Wilson’s wife basically ran the country for a year and a half. So could Wilson tap out to his wife? And if it was Trump vs. Mrs. Wilson who’d win?

Where was this? I’d imagine it as somewhere you’d take your Raptor...

During my post-wedding offsite reception (friends only with a metric ton of alcohol, other items and fireworks held at a lakeside cabin) one of my wife’s friends got frisky with one of my old college roommates. The house was a crowded nonstop party so they adjourned to the woods.

Earlier this year, I spent a full two weeks cruising around the American southwest in the Ford Raptor with the same 10-speed transmission, and my takeaway then was the same as my thoughts now: the transmission is “fine.” The shifts aren’t amazingly crisp, but the EPA fuel economy say the transmission is saving…

Yes, double thanks for the article. We’re considering a short vacation in Colorado so I can check out substituting weed for a small galaxy of medications that I take. I’ve seen some B&B’s advertising this kind of vacation and once my wife retires it looks like a long weekend in Boulder may do the trick.

Normally I ignore pedantic comments but gosh darn it, you’re right.

Yes, we used to live in a townhome (fancy term for “cheap condo”) where the bedrooms on each home’s 2nd floor overlooked the parking lot. Our next door neighbors’ n’er do well son moved back home and promptly bought a motorcycle (I am guessing 600cc). The first weekend he had it was spent hacksawing anything…