This past Friday, I had the luxury of hitting several bars in DC with a group of twelve dressed up men. I say “luxury” because traveling in a pack of cleaned up, good-looking men is not something I can normally do. Traveling in a pack provides instant social proof – something I lack du...

Sen. J. Lowell Stoltzfus (R-Somerset) shared the kind of personal information with his colleagues today that is hardly common during fierce debates in the Maryland Senate: His family portrait includes his dog....

You know what we need? More serialized free audiobooks about zombies. John Allen seems up to the task. We being releasing his book today — Fried Green Zombies. No tomatoes, thanks. Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comf...

Back in the summer of ‘05, I put up a post that ran down a list of all the cars I’ve owned. Since then I’ve added one more car to that list. Since it’s giving me trouble lately I thought I’d copy over and update the original vehicular C.V. and add a few more words of wo...

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Safety, Chevrolet, Dodge, Nissan, Carsumer Advocacy Click above for high-res gallery of the IIHS side impact crash tests for full-size trucks Still think big, muscular trucks equal safety? In the case of the new Dodge Ram, Nissan Titan and Chevy Silverado, not necessaril...

Yay! My co-ed indoor team won on Friday, 4-1. We were greatly helped by the opposition not having any subs but we also happened to move the ball around very well, and we only had two subs for the guys ourselves and they were a decade younger. Happily, I scored the opener and assisted on the game-win...

I’ve been playing competitive indoor lately, both on my co-ed team (where typically we’ve gotten whomped) and filling in for my over-30 men’s team whenever they are short on players. Since I’ve picked up my playing considerably over the past several years, I’ve been try...

Filed under: In the Autoblog Garage, Trucks/Pickups, Ford Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2009 Ford F-150 Platinum 4x4 The Blue Oval delayed the introduction of its all-important 2009 Ford F-150 by two months late last summer. The company claimed it could save some cash by postponing t...

/ The miserable news for readers and writers alike keeps coming in the first month of 2009. First, the news that Fantasy & Science Fiction is going from a monthly publication to bi-monthly; then the news that there will be no 2008 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror ; and then, ...

Recap: Between 24 and 28 players yesterday on two fields, including two young women playing. The pace was fast and the playing level was good, but not fantastic. Apparently there was some hard fouling (?) going on in the other game, so I’m glad I picked the right field. Health Report: Okay. I ...