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The Money Pit

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I know someone who is dead broke and living in a small apartment, on the government dole - despite having both earned and inherited many hundreds of thousand dollars over the...

Trump Derangement Syndrome on Nitrous

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As a journalist I understand completely why so many people rightly loathe the media. It is because the media no longer understand - or just doesn't give a damn - about...

2018 Kia Niro Plug-in Hybrid

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Plug-in hybrids are all about It Depends. Not the adult garment. The calculation: What you get vs. what you spent divided by how  far you drive. What you get with a plug-in hybrid like...

The Monkey Waves His Paw . . .

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I like to focus on the rants - and responding to readers' responses to the rants, general questions and such - but every now and then, it's necessary to make a...

What it Means to be a Law Enforcer . . .

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It is no accident that police have become more brutal - in appearance as well as action - since they became law enforcement. The term itself is a brutal syllogism. The law...

Bell Bottom Blues

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Bad timing is everything. Try, for example, selling bell-bottom corduroy pants today. Oh, Behave! In 1977, it was another matter. But it is no longer 1977. Thank god, the government doesn’t (yet) mandate...

2019 Subaru Ascent

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It's easier to sell what no one else does - but harder to make a sale when you haven’t got what everyone else has. Subaru is the only car company that sells...

False Flag Efficiency

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One of the many cons being perpetrated upon the car-buying public is that the very small, very turbocharged four cylinder engines being served up as replacements for “thirsty” V6 and even...

Viewed from the Proper Angle

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Speed limits are as much about saaaaaaaaafety as George W. Bush's invasion of Poland - whoops, Iraq - was about (beady-eyed squint into the camera) "weapons of mass destruction." This is easily...

Avoiding Problems With Newish Cars

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You might be thinking about buying an older car as a way to avoid having to deal with some of the things that come with new cars, like it or not...
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