My wife and I each read that book whilst in the midst of one of the most hell flu viruses we ever experienced.... young, poor and rural , the only “treatment” we conjured up was to drink moonshine and smoke up NC’s finest home grown.....and maintain just enough lucidity to continue reading the Stand.....and become…

and i cannot turn off my car while it is in a gear other than ‘park’ with my key.....i submit the ‘fob’ as just one more glorious example of “no- the fucking ‘free market’ has pretty much nothing to do with customer ‘demand’ so STFU”......

this is a good essay- but I would urge you to dig even deeper Oh Respected One.... when you arrive on the planet , the instant you can discern a message- visual or auditory- in this culture you are told : “you are not enough as you are, little one. You need to buy this thingy. this concept. THAT is what will instantly …

“Waitaminute....you tellin’ me ya can’t smoke one of these? I am so outta here...”

seems like your info needs an update.....Dad had a Simca. Circa late 50-early 60s when stationed in Germany. Loved it so much he gave serious thought to bringing it back to Ft Sill. Kept on having kids so ended up with a big fin typewriter tranny Dodge station Wagon.... he eventually had an Austin Mini and later a…

Anarchy. [and the fact that the “NBA” may have one or two more large hunanoids that often talk into a mic...but gosh- our limited budget....]

or you got a cousin Methlip who just might be the next Hannibal Lecter and who wouldn’t want to be first to get the “um bail$$ ?” 2AM text?

mixing half coca- cola and half starbucks Frappuccino can get you from Ohio to Colorado and if your luck holds you might AM / Uecker your way thru the night...

good article- thanks. I am still one of the unconvinced - unlike airlines, autonomous cars will have to decide on the size and ethics of objects to avoid. Here in the west USA, that starts from the obvious: Bear, Elk , Moose, Big Horn, Humans....begins to get a bit hazy at : coyote, deer [esp fawns], smaller…

A] mobile homes are a very cheap initial investment to get into rentals- I have some - it works.

A] Nice intro to the draft - there IS a whole lot of “nope- I won’t be doing THAT - anymore or even once “ as we get older and glory days are bound to sneak up on all of us....

no- in a capitalistic economy advertising provides the marketing impetus to manipulate the consumer into confusing wants and needs.  All simply based on the notion that one is ‘not enough’ unless one purchases “x”.....

at one particularly grim stage in my life I was given one that had been “driven over something kinda bad”.... after the first set of tires wore right into the steel cords in under a hundred miles, I melded the truck with another wrecked Rabbit. It got me thru many months of driving over Independence Pass each weekend…

LaVeta pass first- is a good plan- its a moderate grade and not too many hairpins and there’s a small town at the top that likely has a parts store and plenty of places to buy those gallon oil jugs.... Wolf Creek , OTOH .....[at least it mostly has guard rails and passing lanes nowadays] but if ya miss “that “ curve…

Cool. Hope ya make it. Where’s yer fuckin’ helmet? [and flack vest for that matter- pretty sure rusty shrapnel can’t be good for ya]

heh gringo- next time give somebody like this a call: https://sanidentalgroup.com/blog/mexico-dentist-prices/

ah- good - “your grand kids will all die without a chance to have their grand kids”.... see. fixed it.... [unless ‘imortle’ means something other than ‘immortal’....]

I liked CT. I liked them , their irreverence, their allegiance to old time public radio and liberal values without getting all screechy and too earnest. I liked that they got asked by their MIT chums at NASA about the best way to winterize a Martian Rover. That they helped many erstwhile intellectuals discover that…

When one of my most un-funest clients went bat shit insane right as the last payments were due on the custom home we were building for her, she decided to bring in her West Coast Lawyer boy friend to lean on me. I suggested he and I meet and take a walk by the creek to iron things out . Right as I drove to our…

yep- just a perpetual cycle of self entitled violence rationalized by completely unproven “theories” about what is effective. That’ll go a long way towards evolving a healthy society.... sheesh.