Once you reach a certain age, pitching a tent gets harder and harder.

If a NASCAR fan were flying the Confederate Flag, wouldn’t that be about as disrespectful toward the American Flag as anything in the history of America?

There are very few cars that give me a boner.

Time will tell, but don’t be too surprised if more people go for this than you expect. I’ve never even driven onto a KIA lot when shopping for a new car before, but the Stinger has me pondering how to justify selling one of the perfectly-functional, paid-off vehicles I’ve already got in order to get one.

As a huge Discworld fan, I enjoyed the Penguin taking a lead directly from Lord Vetinari’s playbook here. “If you’re going to have crime, it may as well be organised crime.” It was only one step removed from the founding of the Thieves’ Guild and having citizens pay for ‘insurance’ against licenced crime.

Damn it Ms.Frizzle

I didn’t watch the videos. But are we sure this is isn’t from an early Bus? Since they (as I recently learned) have portal axles for gear reduction. Which would assist in moving the lumbering giant of an F-150 with only about 50hp.

Oh Christ, we’re going to have an aircraft carrier named for him, aren’t we? It’s gonna be the biggest, most luxurious CVN in the fleet. It’ll be yuge, folks, and it’s gonna patrol the South Gina Sea. Believe me.

Picking up North Korea rockets from the sea floor?

No need, the Navy’s stellar year in the news is plenty enough.

Disclaimer: 12 years Active Duty Navy service. So that’s (former) Petty Officer Dickhead to you.

These days, at least this year, a US Navy Ship returning to home port under her own power and not having rammed another ship or ran aground is enough to fly a “Mission Successful” banner....

If I were a female driver being compared to Danica Patrick, this would be my response:

+ can actually deliver you to Hell.*

This explains why when I brought my Eclipse in to Discount Tire last week with a flat, they shot it. Thanks, Torch!

as this is the internet, i suspect by this time next year we’ll all be driving down Freeway McRoadFace.

The only Eclipse-related driving problem I’m worried about:

The same thing happened in Tennessee - cities aren’t allowed to remove confederate monuments on their own without going through the state. Memphis is in the process of suing the state to get them removed, but I hope that people here just take it into their own hands.

This happened last night at the Nathan Bedford…

And nobody wants to talk about the ACTUAL heritage: that of poor white farmers and farmers’ sons dragooned into fighting an unwinnable and unconscionable war for the tiny group of superrich that wanted to preserve their oh-so-precious way of life involving crushing everybody beneath them and would have had any one of…

Raph, you know that you want to turn it into a Dakar rally truck.