I have a friend in Alaska who bought a new Subaru Outback last year. Because Alaska. He finally got tired of pouring money into his ancient Audi Quattro. He drove the Subaru less than 2000 miles before returning it to the dealer, taking his drastic haircut, and buying a used Audi wagon. Money be damned. 

Here’s the short course my ex Subaru mechanic gave me. Ex because I gave away a POS Impreza with 72K miles on the clock just to get it the fuck out of my garage. Anything 2000-2004 good. WRX bad- always hooned to near death by some testosterone-based lifeform. Simple. I would not take a brand new Subaru for free. My…

The rare pointless rigid front/suspended rear setup. (fixed it) And extra stars I can’t actually give for Brompton analogy.

Perfect candidate for an aluminum Oz-style tray.

The “traction control” on my Jeep Wrangler. I have no idea how it operates. It just does its thing and some little squiggly lines appear on the dash panel while I’m going sideways in the snow in 4x4 high (to be clear). Both of my un-nannied-up XJs were way better in the snow than my Wrangler. Not even close. And I’m…

The bike industry is still in a clusterfuck. Try buying tires for fatbikes. Or an eleven speed chain. DT Swiss Wheelsets are non-existent. My favorite LBS has a side room that used to be full of bikes to buy, empty as of yesterday. Another LBS said they had gotten one new bike in and did not expect any new Salsa…

When my kid was young I built up a nice frame with quality Shimano parts. When it was time to upsize it, I just transferred the parts to the new frame. The parts were still good ten years later, some even went to college. I don’t think you could do that now with all the differing proprietary standards and the SRAM v.…

“racing bagger” = oxymoron. 

Those sovereign idiots sued me 40 years ago and it has followed me around ever since. Even though the court dismissed it. I’ve saved the original paperwork since 1982 because every time I applied to a different state’s bar association I’ve had to show them the paperwork. Every time my security clearance came up…

Whoaa.... there’s a video on there YouTube says I purchased. I would never buy a Transformers video. And there’s no way to get rid of it.  

15,806 NBA assists, 15 million covid assists. Definitely going in the covid hall of fame. 

Right... a thousand times! But I only have one star for you unfortunately. After Day 2 he was racing an entirely different race than the people that wanted to finish. ASO is probably rethinking the “Experience” Class right now. I can totally understand it for privateers, but not Red Bull Boy. 

I had a hand gun about a decade ago that had been recalled and was dangerous. Company that made it was out of business. ATF agreed to destroy it. I just dropped it off and filled out some form. I didn’t want someone to get hurt by it. I wouldn’t be so trusting in today’s political climate and would probably cut it up…

Should have been LeVar Burton’s gig. I can’t stand Mayim Bialik and you can tell Ken Jennings is thinking he would have got that one when there’s a wrong answer in the form of a question. The least they could have done was give Coates a one week guest host tryout. 

This is simple. Here Kyle sign this waiver of ownership and we will take it over to ATF to be destroyed. Although I’m not sure I would trust ATF. Some RWNJ special agent would probably sneak it out the back door before they take a sawzall to it. At this point it’s like Hitler memorabilia to the white supremacists. 

USFS rarely asks the US Attorney or Main Justice to prosecute anything. Destroying government property over $1K would probably work if for no other reason the cleanup would exceed that. EPA wouldn’t have a crime to charge/civil case unless the Av gas got into a stream (CWA) and they could prove it. Maybe a hazwaste…

ND on the Merc, but I’ll take the Cherokee sitting next to it at that price sight unseen. I know I can get that running again no matter what the problem.

It’s the Nullarbor Plain, not Nullabor. Nullarbor literally means “no trees.” If you’ve never been out there it makes a trip across Nevada look like a trip to the corner grocery. 

Right. And I’m not selling it to some red-neck. The sawzall battery is going to be tested. 

I could have lived with Gorsuch and Blackout Brett, but when Amy Comey-Crazy got confirmed I stopped respecting the SCOTUS. Sotomayor said it best, “partisan hacks.” I now push the theory that they illegally seized power in 1803 in the Marbury v. Madison case. The SCOTUS should busted back to deciding cases between…