It’s Not All Bad
New cars can be insufferably naggy - “assisting” when you didn’t ask for it, turning themselves off when not appropriate - as at every red light,if equipped with ASS (automated stop/start)....
2021 Lincoln Aviator
Lincoln won’t be making the Continental sedan after the end of this model year - or any cars at all, after this year.
Henceforth, all Lincolns will be SUVs - like the...
A Letter to the Warden of the Prison for the Elderly
My 84-year-old mother has been imprisoned for the past nine months. Not even family is allowed to visit - a cruelty not visited on death-row inmates. My mother didn't kill anyone...
Der Coonman’s Befiehl
Things warm up as the weather cools. In Virginia, the Coonman has just decreed a partial curfew as well as more devotional wearing of the Holy Rag, the accoutrement of the...
No Camaros for You!
In an irony probably lost on General Motors, California has banned until further notice the sale of the Chevy Camaro SS and ZL1 - the high-performance versions of the Camaro -...
Diaper Report 12/9/20
An interesting thing to report today, in view of the threat made by el Presidente (s)Elect Biden to Diaper everyone to "stop the spread."
My mom has apparently "tested positive."
Here's why this...
Battling the Gesundheitsfuhrers
In all pre-revolutionary times, the question arises: What is to be done?
It was asked in the 1770s by the people who subsequently led the American movement for secession from Great Britain...
Another Step Toward Cashless, Because Corona
It’s a wonder the Gesundheitsfuhrers didn’t shut down gas stations given that people touch the pump handles and the cases! the cases!
Well, that’s coming - even though people will still be...
2021 Honda Accord
The Accord is in trouble.
So far this year - and the year is almost over - Honda has only sold about 165,000 of them. That’s down from more than 320,000 of...
Another Diaper Departure
One of my best friends - I will not mention his name, for reasons which will become apparent - just got ejected (almost violently) from the Roanoke cop-op in the Grandin...