Russia and China seem to have this thing about trying to expose the United States as impotent, when it is far from it.

basically tantamount to war? NATO is saying that Russian Army forces, under Russian flag, have moved on to Ukrainian soil to shell Ukrainian forces. How is that different from war?

this is the aid package they really need:

Good news. This isn't jalopnik.

This is on Foxtrot Alpha, a blog about war. Tough cookies bro, you're in the wrong neighborhood.

I was just in Virginia, DC, Delaware and Maryland for the last week. The roads and drivers there are all fucked and I'm sure it's associated with the insanity that is their traffic enforcement. I hat people stop - STOP! - on an on-ramp because the concept of gaining speed to merge was some alien notion. People…

Maybe *you* can't control your car at those speeds, but, that doesn't mean that no one else can.
I live in southern Italy and although there are "speed limits" not a single one is enforced. I literally drive as fast as I want every day. So does everyone else. One thing you learn is that like anything else in life for…

But that doesn't excuse what I did. I came into Virginia and broke their laws; I drove way too fast. This is my fault and no one else's. (Well, maybe the ZL1's.) This wasn't one of those moments where I got nailed going 5 mph over in some ridiculously low section of a county designed only for revenue collection.

I do think Virginia's speed laws are absurdly harsh, especially as a native of Texas where 80 mph is an almost universally accepted highway speed by most drivers and where a toll road just outside of Austin lets you go 85 mph. There, this probably would have been a really expensive speeding ticket; maybe even one I…

People die from cars a lot because people are driving all the time. Almost everyone in America is on the road at some point during every day. Jail time for speeders is insane, especially when a) speeding laws are so discretionary in their enforcement as to be confusing (sometimes going 78 in a 65 is OK, sometimes 32…

I think we can cut these guys a little bit of slack.

Obligatory hell is meant for people who take video in portrait mode post.

people who go more than 80 should go to jail before drug dealers? I'm sorry but I believe even our legal system makes more sense than that statement.

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

- One forty-five caliber automatic

Easy, change oil, top off wiper fluid, check diff,trans,brake, clutch fluids, check coolant, check belts and hoses, get a spare gallon of good wiper fluid. New wiper blades... RAINX EVERYTHING... and then gas up and head out.

Stereotypes aside, minivans offer more practicality than the average SUV while getting better fuel economy. The only real-world sacrifice you make with a minivan is that you can't take it offroad, but nobody goes four wheeling in new SUVs anyway. It's a shame that minivans, America's most sensible vehicles, have to be…

The lower salaries of Russian sailors argue for less automation.

What is "sky wit"?

Great article! There's a scene in The Hunt for Red October where Jack Ryan is briefing the powers that be about the situation, and he says something to the effect that major Soviet naval assets have been suddenly deployed, "including a Kirov-class".