Hops are for communists. 

... Oh, and here’s a bottle of Harley Davidson BBQ sauce and a onesie for your nephew.

Somebody enlighten me: is “The Fast Saga” new nomenclature?  I don’t remember seeing it on any of the past titles.  Seems to be a pretty strong indication that we’ll be seeing many more installments. 

File under “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”  ND. 

Neutral: I won’t, but mainly because I’m still taking pandemic precautions. A sad prelude to the COVID mess was that I realized how nice the modern theater experience has become a mere few months before everything locked down. A limited showing rolled through town and I decided to check it out. The theater was decked…

It’s a complicated question. I definitely think from a mechanical, reliability and performance standpoint, they’re getting better. You raise a very valid point about “emerging revenue streams,” however. I think it’s inevitable now that we’ll be paying subscription fees for certain “premium” features, like the BMW…

I remember when this type of fashion came to the fore.  I was just out of a long relationship, had just dropped a ton of weight and was single and ready to mingle.  I suddenly started caring about what I wore and wanted to get out there and peacock a bit.  I could never bring myself to wear this stuff.  It looked like…

I visited Bangalore years ago and was astonished that there was both a Ferrari and Lamborghini dealership in the neighborhood.  The roads around the stores would have literally destroyed a low-slung coupe.  Deep potholes, long rough patches, not to mention the standstill traffic.

Amazing stuff, Mr Kittman.  It’s still astonishing to me how quickly, relatively speaking, petroleum took off and how we’ve been reliant upon it in roughly the same fashion for, like, a decade.  I suppose you’ll get to some reasons for that in your later installments. 

Unless you’re a fellow cop or a Republican politician, cops think you’re basically a cockroach.

I have fond memories of the last time gas prices were up above $4 in my area, and that’s not even adjusting for inflation between then and now (would be roughly $5 today). There was suddenly lots of “local interest” news reporting, where they’d catch a Karen carefully meting out a meager $20 worth of gas into her…

We’re in a truly dark timeline, considering that being a rich, white man cosplaying as a gun nut is enough of a qualification to win a spot in the senate. It’s also astonishing to me that so many otherwise rational and (at least somewhat) intelligent people view guns as if they’re magic wands. Guess what, Mark? If an…

I’ll own up: I actually shopped for a car like this very seriously about 10 years ago. I ended up giving up because I couldn’t find one with a stick. That said, you’re right that it was very much a septuagenerian’s dream vehicle. But that reputation developed over time. I can still remember when a hip young coworker…

Come on over to The Satanic Temple.

I have fond memories of my Juke. It was pretty close to being the perfect car for me, with 3 small exceptions: surprisingly cramped interior, had to go with the CVT to get AWD, and an astonishingly small fuel tank (also due to AWD). I loved the funky factor, and even with the CVT it was super fun to drive. Somehow,…

I remember a fellow commenter telling me that I’d probably be disappointed with driving an R34 GT-R through the lens of today’s performance cars. I really couldn’t remember the performance specs on it. It could go from 0-60 in like 4.5 seconds! Sure, there are a lot more vehicles that can do that today than there were…

I’m a huge fan of the original Scooby Doo. It all started when I realized Cartoon Network aired the older/original episodes during my lunch break between college classes. I hatched a theory, and I hope I’m not the only one to have come to this conclusion. The reason Scooby and Shaggy always see the ghost/monster first…

I’d be surprised if they weren’t doing that here. 

I’m sure that he’s right, but IIRC, SOP for mail carriers is that you have to power down your truck every time you step out of it, and to take the keys with you. I believe it’s framed as being about liability.  There are also super strict rules around how far/often you can go in reverse.