You know his politics are embarrassing, right? like john derbyshire embarrassing. He's a bit to the right of attilla the hun. If he started talking about politics it would become difficult to talk about his automotive journalism publicly. Our girlfriends would throw out our top gear mags. It would be like eric…

I think your reference to Roland Barthes may be particularly inspired. I would suggest that his concept of the scriptor as distinct from the author is also relevant. Where the author produces original texts, the scriptor simply combines existing texts in novel ways. His scriptor is the equally valid descendant and…

I would argue that we should be proud of The Automobile and critical of cars and the establishment which produces them in the sense that the Automobile is an art form like any other, with some truly transcendent masterworks and a great deal of mediocrity. Those who work in the medium of cars include a few great men, a…

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I think the fact that the members own vipers is incidental. They're named the viper club of america after their executives and directors.

I think 'didn't want to learn' means 'gave up on learning after i used up an entire clutch trying.' It may have gone that 250 mi. one 4 foot lurch at a time.

I understand the temptation to lash out at a woman's looks when you are extremely angry. It's similar to the way people say we must have tiny dicks based on our rad cars when we annoy them in traffic. Guys, those are both temptations we gotta resist. Jalops are cultural ambassadors out there correcting the…

So, Hezekiah is ok, then? For a boy, natch. Jehosephat always seemed like a nice name for a girl...

Dipso Fatso Bingo Asbo Tesco.

Space gherkin. It's in london and everyone has mixed feelings about it, just like the royal family.

Tow truck drivers are awesome when you can afford triple a but not a better car. Nobody ever wrote an article defending the clamping truck driver.

even in russia tow truck driver pants don't go all the way up

I think the Bay Area's own Extra Action Marching Band would be an excellent fit for the A's and a good one for the giants. Combining two beloved local institutions on one bill seems like a no-brainer for any promoter, right? And it would eliminate some of the wince inducing wrong notes which are particularly glaring…

If you were at oberlin about a decade ago you might recall that john boehner's daughter smokes a lot of pot. I bet the aclu would find it hilarious if they got her.

If they caught scumbags like the ones who took torchinsky's baja bug I bet they would have found some drugs. Busting a cross section of drug users could be expected to pick up honest people who indulge their vice relatively innocuously. How about an approach that only busts people who can't take drugs without…

Sorry to get all poli sci 101 but it seems like a bit of review is necessary.

I had a dumb fun first car and now I have an appliance-mobile. I think the former taught me that automotive fun is rad but that it inevitably exacts a dear price. I lust after hoonable used cars like an impotent pervert. I want them but I know I couldn't do anything with them.

that should be the slogan for mineral water. "mineral water, and comes right out!"

in my state the only things you can legally have come out of your moving vehicle are chicken feathers and water so i only allow my passengers to throw handfuls of wet chicken feathers at other motorists.

does it count if the motor is running? My parents had a beetle with a pretty bad exhaust leak in the heater core. They used to take me out for drives when i couldn't sleep.