3.2% That’s the percentage of my 101 students (mostly “knobs” — i.e., freshmen) who followed the explicit written and oral instructions on how to turn in their papers to me today. Three. Point. Two. The other 96.8% just lost a full letter grade. Plus, in my second 101 section this …
Project LJ Stage 2: More quick, cheap fixes, plus a small bit of Jeep-style luxury (items covered in detail below). $800 — Garmin Trail Guide. $75 — Buchanan Precision Machine 1.5″ Seat Lift-kit. $70 — Mopar’s Jeep Mud-flaps. $50 — Skid-row Steering Box Skidplate. $25 — Domelight Kill Switch, from …
Spent part of my weekend replacing the battery on the Stratus in hope that its starting problems are due to a dead cell and nothing more. There are many reasons I’ve grown to dislike the vehicle, so I was surprised to get yet another: opening up the hood, I couldn’t …
Mr. Pres(id)ent, thank you. Thank you for proving, once more, that any idiot can buy/steal/fool the electorate of this once-great country of ours. Bull Moose, where have you gone?* * My favorite Teddy Roosevelt moment… The presidential candidate for his newly formed Progressive Party, TR was shot on 14 October …
Our non-Jeep car (not pictured) appears to be sputtering its way toward the premature death that awaits most American-made vehicles. It’s a Dodge Stratus, built in this century. But still it dies. Rust burdens its skin, and the innards are diseased. Sometimes the power locks work; sometimes they don’t. Sometimes …