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In today's episode of "Real life or The Onion ?"... This is some fundamentally unserious nonsense. .

Like Vegas, Orlando is a series of ever-finer sieves designed to filter the money from a vacationer's wallet . A nice fountain pen is a...

Contrary to popular belief, NYC is not a particularly high-crime city. It's certainly no Memphis or St. Louis, and the borough of Manhat...

If you, like me, are a fan of the Indianapolis Zoo, you might want to be aware of a social media scam that's circulating. The Indianapol...

Just because you can carry something in Condition One doesn't make it a good idea. The Walther PD380 is an extreme example, sure, but m...

Photographed with a Nikon D300S & 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR II The eggcrate grille lets us know this is from the final two model years of th...

Ugh, the low-IQ garbage that washes ashore in my inbox is so tedious.  Check this ad out. I like how they get so close to the truth here and...

Here's a post-facelift W126 Mercedes-Benz S-class, specifically an '86-'91 300SEL. Back in those days, the alphanumeric code on ...

Recep Teyyip Erdogan changed his "nay" vote on Sweden's admission to NATO to a "yea" after a bit of logrolling that ...

When I write a firearms review, I tend to follow a pretty standard template. In the first part of the article I give a little bit of histori...

Taurus 327 Defender TORO When the .357SIG cartridge was still in fairly common law enforcement use, just the mention of it was a red flag fo...

Punxsutawney Phil may only be right between thirty-five and forty-one percent of the time , but he frickin' nailed it this year . It...

Looks like it's time to reread Neuromancer . (Just kidding. It's always time to reread Neuromancer .)

When it's 29 degrees outside in Indianapolis on the morning of the first of March, it's nice to warm up with memories of a warm Augu...

The Indiana governor’s office is about to be vacated vis term limits and the junior Hoosier senator is campaigning for it on a platform of b...

One of the problems with early DSLRs, especially when shooting in RAW, was the time it took to record image files to the storage device. Bac...

The use of commercially-obtainable data has had a profound impact on the war in Ukraine, and the U.S. military has been paying attention. ...

Here's an '89-'93 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabrio. Back in the early '00s I was idly hoping to maybe get an early 964 Carrera 2...

The Walther PD380 isn't exactly a new model. In the auto industry, this is what would be called a "mid-cycle refresh" of the P...

I've known some bush-league versions of the type of dudes he's referencing... " As usual, you have to go over to independent me...