Month: October 2025

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE LEBANON

There could be no possibility of my missing one of two excruciating deaths. If the tug’s propellers didn’t turn me into mincemeat, my drowned corpse would eventually float to the surface after the floating crane had passed over me. Even if the tug stopped, the momentum of the barge would merely spare me the chop from the stilled propellers.

I WILL DRINK TO THAT

I changed with the times: As I writer, I cover a lot of ground across Europe for which I need to hire cars. I also have a lifestyle to consider and concede that being caught positive would be nothing short of calamitous.

THE BIRTH OF THE FAMILY CAR

Volkswagen was a far better-designed car than its British, French and American counterparts. Bolshevik Russia didn’t have a domestic auto manufacturing industry and was wholly dependent upon the Ford Motor Company, Caterpillar and brands such as Studebaker.