Women should put the seat down.  They’re the ones who want it down.

If you can’t trust your family, that’s probably a good idea.

I may be confused here, but I thought birth control prevented abortion.

I can’t help but ask when any 200-year-old crystal flute ever wore pants?  So, is that really news?

Like so many other readers here, I’m not going to waste my time watching any videos on this website, but if two people are going to debate a topic, wouldn’t the topic be more interesting if the debate was about something on which there was significant disagreement?

If someone answers a question you’ve asked, don’t jump right in to continue the conversation.  If you create an awkward silence, often the person who answered your question will keep talking and provide more information.  Sometimes it’s information they didn’t initially intend to disclose.

Sgtyukon’s first law of public speaking: Anyone who says they will be brief, won’t.

After you’ve made your Powerpoint slides, but before you actually give your presentation, review them from the back of a room to make sure that if anyone does want to read all of them, that’s possible.

Tie downs?  And with all the overloaded cars and trucks I see every day on the roads, there must be people who are already doing this.

The people who run California must know their electric grid isn’t up to this.  Right now, there are times when the under-maintained grid gets shut down in high winds because otherwise sparking causes forest fires.

I live in a major suburb, so I don’t have most of these things in my cars. You do need paper towels, but I prefer windshield washer fluid for cleaning car windows. Poured into a spray bottle, it’s more effective for cleaning the windows of plasticizers that may boil out of your car upholstery than Windex is. If you…

As the four-door sports car, did it die with the CVT, or before that?

Sweet.  And, I suppose if you can afford one of these  you can afford to buy, or at least least someplace to drive it that fast.

Not surprising really. Electric vehicles are versatile.  A friend of mine (admittedly an electrical engineer) wired his house and his Toyota Prius so that the Prius could be used as a UPS for his house, and he did it roughly 15 years ago.

This.

I’ll give Lea the benefit of the doubt. While proving that she can read would be pretty easy, why should she have to? I have a master’s degree, can read well, and have been paid for writing. On some rare occasions (far from the majority of the time), I’ve been known to make a joke and have people laugh at it.

A little over 20 years ago, I had a 2000 T&C. Took all the seats out of the back, loaded it up to the gunwales, and moved my son cross country. I changed the oil at three-thousand mile intervals three times in 15 days. I accept the premise that minivans are good for road trips.

If I was with a woman half my age, I can’t help wondering what we’d talk about afterwards.

Brisk winters in Syracuse? Have you heard of lake-effect snow? Do you know Syracuse’s weather pattern is affected by two lakes? Have you ever heard the following on a radio or TV newscast: “Meanwhile in upstate New York, the search for Syracuse goes on.”?

Me too, but Bentley wouldn’t.