Comes in handy in the mountains especially in spring. Sometimes you just need to get past a snow drift or two. A winch is also helpful to drag downed trees off the road or at least enough to the side so you can get by. 

Oregon will be next to ban ICE cars. Then what? Do they make an attendant stand by the charger port while you’re charging?

Yemen, where everyone is armed to the teeth, has a homicide rate of 6.66 per 100,000 people. Mexico is 19.26. USA is 5.35. El Salvador is the murder capitol of the world at 82.84.

This is pretty conventional. If he wanted to go out in style he would have made an Ex-MOD Airportable hearse, flown it up in the air and let it drop out of the C-130 with a timer and plastique that made it explode in flames over the North Sea. That’s how I want to go. Viking funeral on steroids. 

A friend leases a Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with a July end date for the lease. Last week the dealer told him to come in and chat. They were so desperate for used cars to sell they terminated his lease, paid the balance and put him in a new Trailhawk for $20 more a month. (Although there was a $2000 payment required.…

Fuck Oregon. Last time I let some tweeker pump my gas there he broke my filler neck anchor (how I have no clue). I now stop before crossing into that vile state and fill up. I even carry a 5 gallon can to be sure. The less times I have to fill up there the better.

There’s a road south of Hobart that looks like a wallaby version of Jonestown in Guyana there’s so many bodies. I’ve seen roo steaks for sale in groceries out in places like Wagga Wagga. 

Las Vegas and New Orleans have got to be two of the most unpleasant summer climates around. I know the games are indoors and all, but just walking across the street in Vegas that time of year can evaporate your body’s entire water supply. Couldn’t they have put it in Denver or something? I’ll still take the flying Sout…

ND. Here’s two in the southern rust-free zone of the Idaho desert*, one even runs and at the same price. I’d take my chances elsewhere if my name was Tony and I had a fixation revolving around wrenching. https://boise.craigslist.org/cto/d/caldwell-lots-of-cars/7303092956.html

Auto wave generator?

I’m conflicted. Would Florida disappearing be a bad thing? I’m guessing it would because the Floridians would just move out into the general population. 

COTD

I once saw a stock Isuzu Rodeo three quarters of the way around the White Rim Trail. It had conquered the Hogback. It beat us up the Hard Scrabble hill before a giant boulder closed the trail for four days before a dynamiter from SLC arrived to clear the blockage.

Justine, the legendary bartender at the Marriot up the alley from the Convention Center, has reportedly left. Musk’s tunnel is dead to me.

There could have been a bit more reference to the “White” Album. But whatever. You stranded on a desert island off Tuvalu and you get one album on your phone it’s going to be Stankonia, not some Beatles’ album. “Don’t everybody love the smell of gasoline?” 

In other countries being a prosecutor isn’t just a stepping stone to judge, or politician or highly paid law firm counsel. If you want to be a prosecutor you go to prosecutor school, it’s a career. If you want to be a judge you go to judge school. If you want to be a politician you practice bribing your friends in…

Our world’s climatic changes caused by human activity are kind of like a runaway car speeding down a hill, picking up more and more speed.

That’s pretty much true. Except the changes in the adminisphere above you can sometimes totally fuck up everything depending where you are on the org chart. I worked for the Bush Administration. The person way up the food chain (like 4 spots down from Bush) was brilliant. Once in a while I had to fly to DC. I’d walk…

I see King Ranch Editions all the time. Then again, there’s lotsa ranches out here in Antivaxxistan with rich ranchers that can get you and me to pay for them come April 15th. 

Try driving an Isuzu Trooper II in Anchorage in the winter. Aside from its beer can recycled feeling and lack of insulation it wasn’t even that good in the snow. So when the transmission went out I felt no hesitation in buying a Range Rover. Night and day in comfort nor could you get the Rover sideways in the snow…