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Site News, Minor Rants & What Have You

Site news, rants on things in the news and items of general interest … not quite articles, but longer than a sentence or two.

Double Yellow Clover Clusterfuck

Here is today's Clover - an old geezer in a geezermobile ambling along at 5-10 below the underposted speed limit (secondary roads are particularly notorious for having under-posted limits; that is,...

Clover Videos, Clover Cam, Clover Stickers…

You may have noticed I've begun posting short videos displaying Cloverism en flagrante delicto - the idea being that a picture (or video) is worth the proverbial 1,000 words. What we'd really...

Clover Pulls Out/Won’t Move Over

Here's another Clover in action: Crappy old truck just has to pull out abruptly - even though he could have waited 10 seconds and let the faster-moving car go by before pulling...

Labor Day Weekend Clover

Here's a Clover I encountered over the weekend. 55 MP speed limit - Clover's doing 40... and slowing for the "curves." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN_Rc-um-A&feature=youtu.be This Clover - clearly impaired (by slow-wittedness? fearfulness? Glaucoma?) will almost...

Contradictions

No one likes a hypocrite - which helps to explain why thinking people increasingly tend to dislike cops. They routinely ignore or violate the laws they spend their days forcing us...

Eric’s Most Recent Interview

Two hours of required government defense information Erin Dakins and Vincent Finelli are joined by Eric Peters of EricPetersAuto.com and dscuss cars, trucks, car spying, government tracing of cars, the best older...

Ferguson

If someone beat you up and stole your wallet, would you beat up the next person who comes along - and take his wallet - to make up for your loss? This...

Bye-Bye Inline Five

This week, in addition to the '15 Honda Fit, I also have a '14 Passat - equipped with the last of the inline fives. This engine - 2.5 liters, 170 hp -...

Seduced by Stuff

Give in to the Dark Side, urged Darth Vader. I think I may already have. But the "dark side" is just Stuff - the material possessions that tie me to the...

Battling Ghetto Trash

... And white trash, too.  At the gym. Here's the backstory: I work out at a big chain-name gym. Ok, it's a Gold's Gym. I go there every Sunday morning, early - specifically, to...
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