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...what is your approach to teaching your kids about sex? Sarah Palin has pretty much proved that you can wish for abstinence all you want, but kids are still going to be boning each other in the backseat of the car. So I feel like I have prepare them for it; I have to teach them how to be responsible and respectful, and also prepare them for the idea that it's a wonderful thing, if done in the right way. So that's why I put condoms in the bathroom...
...Granddad's (may he rest in peace) Ford Torino (it too), finally came the day when you wiped your hands of automotive grease and traded in the wrenches for your first new set of wheels and breathed in its intoxicating new-car smell. Having grown up in the backseat of my father's 1957 Pontiac, I had little doubt that my first new car, too, would proudly sport the arrowhead marque...
...real problem facing U.S. car companies is that my family's automotive path has been replicated in millions of garages across America. Unlike me, my kids didn't grow up in the backseat of a Pontiac. They grew up in the backseat of a Honda Accord, then a Toyota Camry and finally a Toyota Sienna minivan. So guess what? I suspect that when it's their turn to buy their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they...
It’s night, and Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler sits alone in the backseat (appropriate!) of a moving taxi. He’s singing the lyrics to “Windowsill,” which, like so many of the other tracks off 2007’s “Neon Bible,” strike a world-weary tone. “I don’t want the salesman knocking at my door,” Butler intones. “I don’t want to live in America no more...
...John “J.P.” Stilz ’11 cleans out his car Friday morning in preparation for the team’s imminent departure for Ithaca, and he discovers an uneaten hamburger in the backseat. A tattered, yellowed copy of “Typology of the Racehorse” lies on top of boots and gear, all reeking of barn musk. His car is a “nice compost pile,” Stilz says...