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A couple nights ago, traveling through the Hoosier, a bigass doe steps out in front of me. Through quick use of the brake and steering wheel, everybody got out in one piece, undamaged. Everybody says not to leave the lane of traffic to avoid wildlife, but when she stepped out into my lane and...

ONE DOWN, 49 TO GO! We're 1/50th freer. Actually, not quite true; we'd be about 80% freer if the feral gummint shut down, and then every state gummint that shut down beyond that makes us 1/50th of the remaining 20% freer.

Texas passed a law, nearly unanimously, nullifying the feds's virtual ban on incandescant bulbs. They'll have to be stamped "MADE IN TEXAS." I wonder if the feds are going to make veiled threats against bulb companies tempted to go down there and manufacture them for Texans. Of course, people...

"We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there."

You know, if the flooding doesn't recede soon, the "yeah-but-it-ain't-very-deep" joke will be too realistic to be funny.

When my owner put this van on the road, the carrier installed plywood in the cargo area, as you might expect. He told us it would probably last a few months before we'd have to put a different sheet in. Well, it lasted over a year, about 16 months, actually, and just got ripped out today when a...

When logging into EO using the android tapatalk thing, I get a message that days the moderators have disabled tapatalk. What gives?

New Mexico football player Deshon Marman's saggy pants lewd to his arrest and removal from a plane at San Francisco Int'l Airport on Wednesday. Marman, 20 [but apparently less than half of that, emotionally and intellectually], wa s boarding a flight to Albuquerque when a U.S. Airways employee...

Dateline Bellevue, WA: Three dingy chicks took the concept of following directions of one's GPS a little too far the other day when they followed its directions to make a U-turn onto a dock and into a lake. They were rescued by firemen who drove them to a hotel.

I think that's the abbreviation for milli-amp. The engineers behind modern smartphones compromised severely when it comes to battery size and capacity. I can't think of any that are a reasonable capacity. And as phone specs advance, it's going to get worse, absent a quantum leap in battery...

There was a recent thread about flooding in the Dakotas and thereabouts. I can't find it. Going through the cheese, Minnesota, and into Fargo; what's the story on flooding up there?

High temps forecast to be close to 110°F for the next 10 days. Hope you have some serious AC. I think most engines will overheat, idling in that weather.

Hard to believe... Windows Phone 7 to overtake Apple iOS: Report Jun 13, 2011, 12.14pm IST Agencies SAN FRANCISCO: Look out Apple, Microsoft has got the iPhone's number. Research firm IDC predicted that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will outpace sales of Apple's iPhone by 2015. Both will...

Some of you may have seen the thread in which I suggested that we start a custom google map listing parking spots nationwide. My particular interest in it is listing parking areas in which substantial shade can be found, but I'm sure other uses can be found, like safe parking in urban areas or...

How can anyone claim the cops are NOT out of control? SWAT team busts into house over student loan default Posted on 06.8.11 By Sahil Kapur Categories: Featured, Nation Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and...

Anybody ever put 30.2 gallons in their 30 gallon tank? She was thirsty. I'd say my low fuel alarm doesn't come on soon enough.

Is everybody excited about that awesome COLD FRONT coming into the midwest in a few days? I SURE AM! A cold front in summer is better than Christmas! Going to be in the 60s and 70s. I'd better not be in Laredo at the time.

Ok, those of you who have rooted your droid, I have some questions. The phone store guy told me that rooting isn't a one-step process but a continuing process. If you don't keep up with it, you can brick your phone. I had just gotten it and wasn't up to speed with it as it is, so I wasn't...

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These guys learn the pitfalls of yelling, "Somebody throw me a chair!" in the presence of rednecks. > http://leenks.com/link355219.html