I bought a first-generation Dodge Intrepid to replace a Saab 9000S that I’d bought used (the Saab, when it would start, was still the nicest-driving car I ever owned but the unpredictability wore off on me after a while). The Intrepid had lots of room and was comfortable to drive. That was the good part.

Carry-on - a couple of changes of clothing, toiletries bag, and any other related odds and ends.

I have had Malört a few times, a friend brought me a bottle. I made my son do shots of it with me when he turned 21 in the hopes it would turn him off drinking. He was amazed that I could handle it.

My 2022 Ridgeline has yet to get stranded in the snow. Then again, I live in New England where snow apparently no longer happens and we’re a few cold days away from being the next Florida.

I have a Honda Ridgeline (my second one - I traded in my first one for a ridiculous value after nearly 4 years towards a new one, and now drive a ‘22 RTL-E), and it also uses USB-A with only 7.5w/1.5A of charging. I used my older iPhones with a USB-Lightning cable for years, and they were fine.

You’re right that nobody should be put to death for a traffic violation.

The Boeing 2707 mockup wound up in Florida where it was the centerpiece of the short-lived “SST Museum” in Kissimmee. I saw it in the late ‘70s when the museum was operating (it shut down in the early ‘80s), it was a pretty cool concept. I wish we’d been able to make supersonic cross-ocean passenger transport a…

It’s delicious, and I really like it, but no - it’s more akin to a casserole. Doesn’t make it bad at all and if folks in Chicago want to call it pizza, that’s their opinion. It’s wrong, but it’s their opinion.

I’m as much a food snob as anyone, but Olive Garden is... fine. The food isn’t fantastic, but it’s decent. The prices are reasonable. The service (and I haven’t been to many different OGs, but this has been the rule at the ones I’ve been to) is good. The food is served pretty quickly but not too fast. The drinks are…

I had regret twice in my 30+ years of car ownership. In 1993 I had an Infiniti G20, a nice, zippy, reliable car except for the annoying motorized seatbelts that cars had pre-airbags. My wife wrecked her Accord, and my parents were planning to get a new car, so I took their Saab 9000S. When it ran, it was brilliant.…

It’s a very pretty $250k center console.

I mean, that’s a take alright but I don’t think it’s a very good one. Both accidents at Daytona were the sort that in days gone by could have been easily fatal. Modern safety technology like HANS devices, SAFER barriers, and the beefed-up cage of the current car turned them into spectacular incidents that the drivers…

Well, if this is how the revolution starts...

Their dependency on the whims of Amazon for a lot of their sales probably doesn’t do them any favors, and then when they expanded channels to sell in Bed, Bath, and Beyond (dead, with certainly a lot of un-paid for merchandise on their shelves) and Kohl’s (struggling) it likely hit their cash flow badly. Add to that…

For me it’s really simple. We have subscriptions to Netflix, Peacock, Disney/Hulu, and a couple of others. If my son can watch them when he’s away at college without me having to pay more, I’m ok with it. If a service wants me to pony up for more money in order for him to use them, we’re dropping them.

All this. I had a Pilot for a decade. Replaced it with a Ridgeline. Great mileage for a small truck, drives better than my Pilot did, hauls plenty of crap in the truck bed, and has that great lockable trunk.

If those t-shirts were around in the ‘80s when my wife went to WVU she’d have worn one (she’s from South Jersey).

We have one child (who is a college junior now, so not really a child anymore) but until his late teens our main vehicle was a Honda Pilot. With 3 rows. We didn’t use the third row unless we were hauling around several of his friends (or teammates) but we used it pretty regularly. When the 3rd row was folded down like…

Exactly. Security is important, but TSA as an institution is just useless theater.

Massachusetts’ list is Stop & Shop plus a bunch of stores with almost no presence in the state. There’s only a handful of Trader Joe’s and Aldi stores, virtually nobody here even has heard of Vons or Save Mart.