My dad always said the best Thanksgiving meal he ever had was in the Hurtgen forest in 1944 — just before the Battle of the Bulge began — when despite being in combat for a month his infantry regiment got a turkey dinner along with all troops in Europe under an order issued by the Pentagon. They had to warm it up --…

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Like everything else that came out of the Rumsfeld defense department, it was great for defense contractors and who cares if it winds up costing the lives of military personnel.

Try driving an ‘85 Blazer with a 2.8 and a U-Haul trailer into a Wyoming interstate headwind and watch your speedo drop to a “blazing” 35 mph.

EB Green is even better.

In the meantime, a 5.0 frak-quake strikes the “pipeline crossroads of America” in Cushing, OK. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

In may have been just a coincidence, but my divorce was immediately preceded by my ex trading in her Pacer for a Le Car.

This was especially stupid considering it’s the middle of the moose rut.

Right. Anyone expecting OPEC -- plus non-OPEC producers -- to cooperate to cut production and jack up prices is ignoring the pressures on cash-strapped economies in Russia, Venezuela -- even Saudi Arabia itself -- to go for the quick bucks.

We Americans have decided that when there’s a leak in the supply chain we send our military out with an unlimited credit card to fix it.

That’s it!

Thanks to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, the cops don’t need no stinking probable cause to pull you over.

I spent a pleasant afternoon in Maine once watching what began as some high school kids with dad’s brand new pickup driving illegally on the beach until they hit some soft sand and buried the axels.

In a related story today (June 9):

In a related story today (June 9):

The Zee had bad juju 20 years ago when I regularly crossed it.

I watched a guy die trying this during Hurricane Agnes in Pennsylvania in 1972. That was enough of a lesson for me.

This is how an underwear bomb is supposed to work.

I had to pay almost this asking price for a new Y-pipe exhaust system on my 1985 GL-10 sedan when I had to replace it.

I was told once by an F/A-18 pilot that they don’t technically have an afterburner. Is that true? His term for full throttle was full military power.

How does a state with no traffic lead?