Similarly, a majority of voters are in favor of COVID vaccinations. But all the news media are owned by millionaires, and the tax-cuts-for-millionaires party has figured out how to mobilize enthusiastic morons (their motto: “A moron’s vote counts as much as yours!”) and hopes that, with enough gerrymandering, an enthus…

Either that or my eyesight is getting lousier in old age.  I’m constantly being blinded by the lights of oncoming traffic, and the worst offenders are those damned pickup trucks.  Also, in previous decades I didn’t see a tenth so many idiots driving with their brights on.

Reminds me of how fifteen years ago a lot of us Miata guys were saying, “eeew, NC’s are bloated and they suck.”

When you build sewers, you find out that dirt wants to kill you everywhere, always.

Funny, for me it works the other way. I go out and spend big bucks to buy BigNameBrand noise-cancelling wireless headphones for the office, and they’re just fine for about fifteen months, and then one day they just don’t work. I need headphones right away so I drive over to Best Buy at lunch and grab the cheapest…

For a focus group for marketing their new EV, they put a photo rendering of that hideous heap of shards of discolored broken glass in front of a typical customer, and that’s what he said:

You have left out the third current meaning of the phrase “Critical Race Theory.” There’s what you could call “Traditional CRT,” which, being a theory, mainly resides in books, the authors of books in question being Bell, Crenshaw, Williams, Delgado & Stefancic’s textbook, and so on. Then you have “Fox News CRT,”…

For me the point of having a lot of books is that they act as an extension of your memory. I’m thinking about a thing and it occurs to me, I remember reading about this in Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” or something. I have not memorized all six volumes, and the last time I read it was thirty-five years ago, but I do…

Anybody who could look at that little shit’s utterly phony song and dance and not literally yell out “Fake!” has got a lot more self control than I did. It just doesn’t get any faker than that.

I’m sure they’d like the land and buildings and various chattels, all they’d need to do to make Tejas livable for civilized people is expel the gringos. All that would be necessary is to shove them across the border into Oklahoma and then build a wall.

Once I was surveying the Maserati/Alfa dealership off Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, and I wandered over to stare at the gorgeous Italian cars. One of the salesmen comes up and says, hey what’s up? I tell him I’m just out here surveying the site but, me being a car nut, drool. He says, wanna check out one of these…

That’s right. I went to a dealership the other day to get an oil change and there were no cars on the showroom floor, not a one. I asked the receptionist and she said “We sell them as fast as they come in. We’re thinking about making the showroom into a dance floor.”

I understand how car manufacturers profit by putting a tremendous amount of effort into the styling on cars, but I don’t really see the point when you’re talking about a semi-tractor. Semis are completely utilitarian, and I have a hard time imagining any potential fleet buyer saying, “This truck gets 0.15 MPG better…

The requested good arguments are, love is good and it feels great! 10 out of 10, would do again. As far as the “sand in the crevices” argument goes, I can immediately think of at least two ways to go about the act, one of which I have tried and tested personally (which, however, I will not explicate in detail as this…

“Government propaganda for your five-year-old.”

Didn’t you read the article? It said that multiple users at a charging station reduce the current available, thus increasing charge time in inverse proportion. So if you want to get anywhere in a hurry, and what Porsche driver does not, you need to block off all the other EV owners from hooking up and slowing your…

I just re-read the article, and I see the essential clue that I previously missed. It’s here:

Also weight is a limit. I once drove a little over a ton of paving blocks home from Lowe’s in my Miata, but it took five or six trips, as the rated load capacity was only 650 pounds including the driver, so I could only carry eleven at a time.

Aww! But you know what they say...

You can carry a lot of stuff home in a Miata, if you put the top down. The length of your cargo is only limited by the clearance of the overhead wires and bridges on your way home.