Well, North Charleston, SC, but yes.

My first car was a Gold 1988 Mercury Topaz. My mom bought it new and parked it when she bought a new 1998 Ford Explorer, and it sat until I I got my license in Feb, 2000. I drove that until June of 2002, when I bought a 1998 Toreador Red Mercury Sable LS. I loved that car. The Duratec V6 was so smooth and powerful,…

Plus that 95-mph splitter that just falls away to nowhere.

Fuck the Dodgers right in their $273 million payroll.

It was probably a cost-saving measure. I worked Aegis for the better part of a decade, but I don’t know the answer. My hunch is that they were upgrading from one baseline to another, and chose to shelve the CIWS to save some coin for the computer upgrade (which would give an order of magnitude upgrade over the…

Now over to Rota, Spain, where the Navy has decided that the four Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers stationed there need the ability to defend themselves against cruise missile and aircraft attacks while also scanning the heavens for incoming ballistic missiles.

No. Nukes were still way too large to be deployed by smaller fighters.

Gotcha. I think my wife is on Loestrin, and that’s free.

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Didn’t Obamacare make birth control free?

I test drove a 2014 XF Supercharged loaner car, before I made a final decision on my Mustang, and I really, really, really liked it. It handled fantastically, there was more than enough power, and the driving dynamics were great. The sales guy actually had me do a 60-100 pull on an empty stretch of road, and it pulled…

I actually know a lot of folks that had a Zune or Zune HD, and they were fantastic devices. The HD, in particular, was an amazing little device, and far better than what Apple was peddling at the time. The Zune software was much better than iTunes could ever hope to be, and $10 a month for unlimited streaming, music…

BTW, it’s the Shelby GR1, not the Ford Shelby GT.

I went into a Ford dealership a few weeks ago to test-drive a new Mustang, and the sales guy had this exact poster on his wall. He seems like he knows cars fairly well (better than the average car salesman) and I say that I wish Ford had built the GR1. He replies that they did, and built about 100 of them, but they…

Came here for this. Was not disappointed.

I was at a performance driving event back in 2006, and the Corvette club was in town to take the track the next day. There was a guy with a Z06 that had the heads up display, and he showed a few of us what it did. It was neat, but not very useful, as it felt very 80s digital dash-ish.

BUT AFFLECK WAS THE BOMB IN ‘PHANTOMS’, YO!

They’re scavengers, so they taste way different. I’ve had bacon, shoulders, and hams from feral pigs, and it tastes nothing like what you’d expect. The hams and shoulders were decent, but the bacon was much leaner. The bacon wasn’t worth the effort my buddy went through to make it.

No, because I could easily have included the Impala, Fusion, and Mazda 6 as alternatives. The Accord and Camry, though? Right out.

Gotcha. That would be one hell of a berth! I think they’d have a really hard time getting her backed in, given how narrow the Cape Fear is.