Author: DOuG pRATt

More, “We Don’t Need No Stinking Permits”

Here’s a Turning Point USA story you aren’t likely to see anywhere else:

https://www.fsugatepost.com/post/political-group-attempts-to-host-table-on-mccarthy-patio

All they had to do was ask for permission and apparently pay a fee, to hawk their message at the campus center. Instead, their approach is the same as setting up in a supermarket parking lot to sell electronics that “fell off a truck.”

The more I know about TPUSA, and contemplate its mission, the more I see it as a next generation Campus Crusade for Christ. Except now, with the support of Republican operatives, the twisted use of Jesus to provide cover for a political agenda is fully developed and expressed.

Blue Collar Whites

The Oregon AFL-CIO calls out the Department of Labor for its vision of Ayn Rand poster boys, worthy of gracing the covers of her romantic fantasy novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

An American workforce that appears to be young, straight-looking, closeted gay white men. If the Defense Department is going to be called the War Department, then Labor may as well be called the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

I’ve Got Nuthin’ on my Mind

On Sunday, Denro and I were at the Albany Comic Con. It’s a small, one-day show that’s devoted to comic books, which is a rarity these days. I bought this groovy FLAME ON! logo from comic book letterer Janice Chiang. It would make a good tattoo, not that I’d ever have any interest in getting one.

That’s all I have at the moment. I’ll think of something else to Prattle about later.

Oh, wait. There is one more thing. Something from a few days ago that returns every time I reset it on the CR-V. I suppose I should get an estimate on a new catalytic converter.

P0420

My 2011 Honda CR-V has 82,000 miles on it. The check engine light came on six months ago. As the weather warmed up the light turned off and the car passed the emissions test during annual inspection.

Recently, with the weather turning colder, the light returned, and it has stayed on. I bought one of these for $17:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z3HB7DR

The OBD II scanner reported this:

P0420 $f111
Catalyst System Efficiency
Below Threshold Bank 1

So, it would seem the catalytic converter is failing. I reset the code to turn off the check engine light, but it’s certain to return.

I bought the CR-V new, fifteen years ago this coming May. In Massachusetts, a 15-year-old car is exempt from emissions tests. What to do… what to do…