What Might That Leak (or Puddle) Mean?
It's a little odd to think of it this way, but cars and people are both machines, with systems (circulatory, cooling, hydraulic) . . . and when either leak, it's cause...
It Did What it Was Written to Do
A great many people - especially conservatives - reverence the Constitution, consider that it has been abused and that if only the doctrines expressed within were revived and respected, all would...
Putting the Blame Where it Doesn’t Belong
In a strange take on William Burrough’s famous quip about gun control advocates - who want to take guns away from people who haven’t shot anyone - lawyers for explode-in-your-face air...
Tire Tyranny
If you've gone to get new tires recently, you may have already dealt with the latest outcropping of technocratic busybodyism: The scanning of your car's electronic ear tag, its Vehicle Identification...
Chipped Tires
Tires are supposed to leave tracks - not track us.
Someone should tell the tire companies. Who aren’t telling us about the tracking devices they’re embedding in the tires they’re selling to...
A Step Back Toward Peace Keeping
I grew up in an America with cops in the background. Most people - being not criminals - had almost no interaction with them and when they did it was generally...
What Might That Smell Mean?
You can guesstimate with some accuracy what might be wrong with your car just by using your nose. If you're hip to what various smells suggest. Let's have a look -...
Retro Review: Ford Maverick Grabber,1970-’75
There is an interesting species of near muscle car that came into being and briefly existed for a handful of years, beginning in the early 1970s - just as the high...
1986-1993 Cadillac Allante: They Got it Right … Too Late
It began with high hopes - and an audacious plan. Unfortunately, it belly-flopped badly... .
By the mid-1980s, Cadillac was still the "standard of the world" - if by "the world" one meant...
Why Don’t Cops Ever Enforce (Or Even Know) “The Law”?
Troll around YouTube (or read the news, even casually) and you will readily come across examples of cops who don't know the law - and enforce their own conception of it...