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May 7, 2026

The Falcons Have Been Breaking My Heart Since Before You Were Born, and I Keep Coming Back Anyway

Fifty-five years old, lifelong Atlanta Falcons fan. I have earned the right to tell you exactly what this franchise does to a person over time, and it is not pretty.

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May 6, 2026

The Weight You Can Move at Fifty Is Different Than at Thirty and Anyone Pretending Otherwise Is Selling You Something

The bar math doesn’t lie, but the fitness industry sure does. What happens when the numbers stop going up and you have to decide what that actually means.

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May 6, 2026

The Difference Between Invasive Species and Native Ones Is About Four Hundred Years and a Lot of Loaded Political Assumptions

Nobody gets to draw the line on “native” without also admitting they picked the date arbitrarily. That’s not ecology. That’s politics with a field guide.

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May 6, 2026

The Way Frank Explains a Technical Problem Tells Me More About How His Mind Works Than Any Diagnostic Ever Could

Most people describe a broken system. Frank describes a broken *relationship* between systems. That difference isn’t stylistic. It’s structural, and it reveals something worth paying attention to.

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May 5, 2026

Saturdays in the Fall Are Not Negotiable in This House

UGA football isn’t a hobby for me. It’s closer to a calendar system. Here’s what that actually looks like after five decades of bleeding red and black.

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Ten Engines, One Man's Opinion, No Apologies Seven posts. Dozens of engines. Hundreds of factory ratings that may or may not reflect what those motors actually made on a real engine dyno. We covered Mopar's murderer's row, Ford's homologation specials,…
May 4, 2026

The Final Verdict: The KnuckleDust Top 10 Ranked, What You Can Still Afford, and What’s Now a Hedge Fund Trophy

Ten Engines, One Man’s Opinion, No Apologies Seven posts. Dozens of engines. Hundreds of factory ratings that may or may not reflect what those motors actually made on a real engine dyno. We covered Mopar’s murderer’s row, Ford’s homologation specials,…

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The Cars Nobody Made Room For Every bracket has a bubble. Every tournament has the teams that shouldn't be there on paper but keep winning anyway. In this series, we've spent six parts working through the big-four manufacturers and their…
May 4, 2026

The Orphans and Oddballs: AMC’s 390, the Rebel Machine, Hurst/Olds, and the COPO Back Channel

The Cars Nobody Made Room For Every bracket has a bubble. Every tournament has the teams that shouldn’t be there on paper but keep winning anyway. In this series, we’ve spent six parts working through the big-four manufacturers and their…

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The Engines Nobody Puts on Their Poster Here is what happened at a stoplight in Lansing, Michigan, sometime in 1970. A guy in a Buick GSX pulls up next to a guy in a Chevelle SS 454. The Chevy driver…
May 4, 2026

Oldsmobile and Buick: The Torque Argument and Why Gentlemen’s Muscle Belongs in the Bracket

The Engines Nobody Puts on Their Poster Here is what happened at a stoplight in Lansing, Michigan, sometime in 1970. A guy in a Buick GSX pulls up next to a guy in a Chevelle SS 454. The Chevy driver…

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The Car That Started a War In 1964, John DeLorean did something that should not have worked. He stuffed a 389 cubic inch engine from the full-size Pontiac Bonneville into a mid-size Tempest body, called it a GTO, and sold…
May 4, 2026

Pontiac’s Wide Track War: The 389 Tri-Power, the Ram Air IV, and the 455 Super Duty’s Last Stand

The Car That Started a War In 1964, John DeLorean did something that should not have worked. He stuffed a 389 cubic inch engine from the full-size Pontiac Bonneville into a mid-size Tempest body, called it a GTO, and sold…

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The Most Dangerous Thing About Chevy Was the Volume Walk into any swap meet in the country and you'll find Chevy parts. Big-block heads, small-block cranks, intake manifolds stacked three deep against a folding table run by a guy in…
May 4, 2026

Chevy’s Big Guns: The L88, the ZL1 Ghost, the LS6, and the DZ302 Nobody Talks About

The Most Dangerous Thing About Chevy Was the Volume Walk into any swap meet in the country and you’ll find Chevy parts. Big-block heads, small-block cranks, intake manifolds stacked three deep against a folding table run by a guy in…

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