Actually, it is more difficult to adopt a dog from a shelter in many places. Also, many of the rescue groups require a home visit and specifications must be met (have a fence, don’t leave dog unattended for long stretches of time, verify your vet, etc.)

I don’t find it very interesting to watch, but I will never question the physical abilities of NASCAR drivers. Plenty of occasions when I have a new student at HPDE, they are shocked at how exhausting a 20 minute session is, even on a cool day. Add heat and humidity, then you have to be very deliberate about hydration…

This feels like it should be a lesson taught by J. Walter Weatherman.

A little over a year ago, I had a conversation with one of my right-leaning friends who made a disparaging remark about migrant labor on the farms around where we live. Since we were going to be stuck in a car together for the next 12 hours, I didn’t want to be inflammatory, but I did ask for ideas on how our local…

I know plenty of people who live in the safest parts of the safe parts of the outer city that carry all the time out of fear of home invasions, carjacking, terrorists (not joking), and even wildlife. I just don’t get it.

This is how Hesgeth determines who is and isn’t a human:

How awesome if Keegan showed up at the protest just to say “Ya done messed up A A Ron”?

Yes, this. Maybe if the Congressional critters had to look at the bodies of dead children, something in their lizard brains might wake up and start to have a conscience? Some in the pro forced birth put pictures of dead or miscarried feti on the protest signs. Make the legislators and gun lobbyists see with their own…

Further evidence showing that the GOP, while being all about forced birth, doesn’t actually give a shit about Life.

The first time I saw one of those in person was 2001. I wanted to kill it with fire then. Still want to kill it with fire.

AND probably threw a temper tantrum whenever a person wouldn’t interact him because he was only speaking English...

Very nice. I helped a buddy resurrect a ‘91 MR2 Turbo that had suffered at the hands of some fast and the furious types. My Jalopnik Fantasy Garage has a space allotted for one of these. It was fun to drive. Sadly, a few months later, a drunk driver smashed head-on into it while it was parked. Pushed the front wheels…

He’s lucky that was a vette and not a Mustang...

I feel the same way about my ‘13 V-Strom 650. Just for kicks, I went to H-D’s website (pretty slick, IMO) and looked at what I could buy for $10k. I’m not a cruiser fan, so there really wasn’t anything that caught my eye. The Iron 883 looks kind of neat, but once you add ABS and detachable luggage, you’re way over.…

ATGATT, bro!

It never ceases to baffle me that there is such a large swath of voters in the USA that believe these bronze age bedtime stories. So singularly focused many of these folks are on bringing about armageddon that they completely overlook everything that their messiah said is important (do unto others, forsake material…

In my stereotypical middle-class suburb schools, my “peers” would ridicule and tease me for making good grades, having musical talent, and being bad at sports.

My mom had a ‘75 MG Midget, red/tan with black convertible top. For whatever reasons, a red MG was her dream car (no disrespect!) and I remember riding around on the parcel shelf. We had it for awhile after my brother was born, but around 1982-83, my folks decided it was too small and our old Plymouth Volare wagon was…

Well, historically, our CIA has been one of the foremost traffickers of cocaine (and heroin), so it wouldn’t be so much of a stretch that a percentage of the inflow is diverted straight to the White House...

Have a star for Graham Chapman!