“In related news, American consumers are absolute morons... Let’s go to Phyllis Krinkly at the 2nd Street soup kitchen to talk with a man who just paid $155,000 for a 2023 Dodge RAM TRX after rolling in more than $60,000 he still owed on his 1-year old Ford Raptor. Phyllis?”

Let’s be totally honest - Top Gear was tired and flabby many years before he was fired by the BBC, and for the most part The Grand Tour is/was either a lazy rehash of the best stuff TG had done years before, or just unwatchable (God, that Madagascar special). A few episodes hewed close to what made TG so much fun in…

Mise en place, people. Mise en place.

Colors.

I know more than one person who was shopping for a used car and eventually just said Screw it, I’m buying new, and is now the proud owner of an 8-year double digit percentage bank note.

Indiana was a a highly trained, well-educated scientist. Mutt was a dropout. To presume he could just “step up” and fill his dad’s shoes was laughable. It’s like the new Ghostbusters movie. The kids were smart but they weren’t scientists who invented stuff. If the proton pack broke, who was gonna fix it? Egon’s dead,…

There’s a taco place in Austin called Taco ranch that’s owned by the P. Terry’s folks. Locals give is shit because they don’t have ahi tuna or ancho pork belly tacos, but specialize in old school crispy corn shells filled with beef, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. It’s all fresh stuff, including the tortillas and salsa,…

Our neighbor is in a band (well, he is a band, and also it’s Austin so everyone is in a band, just calm down) and tours a lot in an Econoline that’s too big to park in the garage, so it mostly lives in the driveway. Thieves have now stolen his cat four times. He welded up a cage of rebar to the frame which I guess…

I hate using the word “I’s” as the personal possessive pronoun even more.

Absolutely. You can even add efficiency. I can literally park, order and pay via the app in the parking lot, walk in, wait 2-3 minutes while reading emails, get handed food, walk back to my car and drive away in less time that it took for the line to move 2 cars.

My 76 year old mom (still healthy, alert, capable, and active, with lazer blasted eyes for 20/20 vision, thanks for asking) is about to buy one, so at least in one anecdotal instance, not a problem.

Went to a local chain the other day and got a burger, fries, and a regular iced tea for$22 and change including a mandatory 18% tip. It’s not fast-fast food, so it was never McDonald’s cheap, but you used to be able to get the same meal for $13.85 (I found a receipt in the door pocket of my car).

A guy I worked with about a decade ago got pulled over leaving a big community Oktoberfest and arrested for drunk driving even though he was the designated driver and hadn’t had a single drink. He worked for the city and was fired the next day, even though the charges were thrown out because he passed the blood test,…

Dang. Jenkins Star Wars fighter jocks film got dumped because of her commitment to WW3, and now WW3 gets dumped.

God, this poor kid. My oldest is almost 12 and we know the ways she’s struggling, thanks to her wonderful therapist. I won’t say what I’m thinking although I know we’re all thinking it, and instead just say I hope she gets the help she needs, and maybe her father will learn something too, and not somehow politicize…

I wonder how much things in Georgia have changed over the past 40 years or so, when my dad was literally run out of his job as a rural-ish high school principal for not being racist (he “fraternized” with the Black faculty and allowed them to call him by his first name).

Only next to a half million dollar supercar does a $75,000 Kia sound vaguely reasonable.

It’s crypto, so you already know it’s a scam.

No release for “previous” gen systems, though?

It was really fun and had a great story. I wish it had better replay value, so I guess when people say it’s apparent it was rushed, that’s what they mean.