In high school a friend of mine put a single Klipsch Forte in the back of his Chevette, powered by a janky Pioneer 200w amp, and literally blew the windows out. Well, maybe blew out is not accurate... more like rattled out. He also claimed it never started right again, probably due to a loosened ground connection…

Again, watching this show with kids is the way to do it. We’ve had actual conversations about violence in the name of duty, why soldiers have to do things that are morally wrong (one of their uncles is in the military), and moral relativism. It’s not Better Call Saul, but for family viewing it often offers just enough…

We must work with Trump supporters who stop supporting him, or can otherwise be reasoned with. Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and especially MItch McConnell and Lindsey Graham can all go get fucked with wasps inside an active volcano.

This might be overly dramatic on my part, but I forsee a major fight come January. If the GOP refuses to step aside, who will enforce the will of the people?

You know, back when I had a ‘71 Super Beetle I had some JC Whitney turn signals that were SLIGHTLY different from the OEM units, and my mechanic, who was an old beetle hippie, thought they were an 80s-era mashup of designs and parts that would be legal worldwide. That’s always stuck in my head.

For a casual gamer like me, who is totally satisfied with a few rounds of Star Wars Squadrons or a lazy walkabout in No Man’s Sky, I assume there’s no tangible benefit to upgrading. I mean, I still have an old 1080 46" TV because it hasn’t broken and sit on the floor in front of the TV like I have since I was 6…

Having grown up in Arkansas, I can safely say that poor white people who know they have no chance to improve their lives will always vote for candidates who promise to make other people more miserable than they are. 

I’m just waiting for Scotland to leave the UK then declare all of the families who were disentitled following the failed Jacobite Revolution are welcomed back. There’s a lovely little village near Kyle of Lochalsh I have my eye on...

Have y’all gotten to the story about Kentucky cops using Mein Kampf as training materials? That’s a good one, too.

The numbers are encouraging. From what I’m reading, we voters here in Travis County (Austin), TX are the first to exceed the TOTAL number of votes in the 2016 election, and we have two days of early voting, election day, and absentee ballots to count. COnsidering our demographics, and considering similar situations in…

Certain aspects of your experience mirror mine. My friend would always tell me no one else wanted to be my friend, that he was the only person. That he could help make me cool and popular (he was my “in” with the cool crowd, allowing me to move from the dork table to the jock table at lunch without any harassment). Jus…

With the death of Eddie Van Halen and watching Cobra Kai, I’m recalling my youth with a weird mix of nostalgia and confusion, particularly the years 1986

If we’re going to be pedantic...

I’ve been looking at the factory front wheelwell gaps in my 82 GTV6 for years. I’ve studied the various methods for lowering the car to standard Euro height (during the import process NHTSA decided on standard minimum headlight and bumper heights for USDM cars, and Alfa’s solution was to turn the front torsion bars to…

One who engages them as people, would be my guess.

Corollary - take a loan if it makes better financial sense than buying outright. You can leverage your money to get better deals.

Damn, good list. To be honest, Van Halen is one of those bands that you could toss any random set of songs against a wall and call them the Top 10, and you’d have an argument.

I’m terrible at this game, mostly because my preferred control scheme is still bugged and flying using a standard controller scheme that’s so against everything I’ve ever used before... that’s another gripe.

I first played the original coin-op Star Wars at Showbiz Pizza in Dallas, probably 1983, the year it was released. To this day it’s the first game I search for at any retrocade. Yes, I’m asking for the 1-Up cabinet for Christmas, to live next to my desk.

I have zero shame in admitting that at least a few times a month, a frozen personal Red Baron is all I’m going to manage.