Housekeeping: Happy Juneteenth 2024

by Tim Healey

Published: June 18th, 2024

We're taking tomorrow off in recognition of Juneteenth.

As always when we take a day off, we may pop in if news breaks or if there's another reason to post. Otherwise, we'll see you on Thursday back at full tilt.

Juneteenth is a celebration of the ending of slavery, and without getting too political, I think we can all agree that that is a good thing.

Speaking of politics, since this is a fraught topic, please play nice in the comments. I will be monitoring -- I might even pop in tomorrow -- and banhammers and deletion buttons are ready.

We'll see you Thursday.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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3-On-The-Tree on Jun 25, 2024
Honestly I can’t tell sometimes. Why does he post under your name in the first place? He have a personal beef with you?

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- Bd2 7 days ago
  Yes he hates me because I have a high paying position as public product evangelist for Hyundai/Kia/Genesis while he drives a lotus with a Toyota engine lol.
  
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- Bd2 6 days ago
  ^ Above is Anal, who got the ban hammer for attacking one of the writers for writing something positive about Hyundai/Kia, since he has some weird vendetta against them. Anal previously would annoy everyone by pretending to be a H/K superfan and make repeated, outlandish claims; but ever since he got banned, he's been doing the same under my handle. After a while, it should be pretty easy to pick out his posts.
  
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- Bd2 6 days ago
  Even when he tries to throw people off by attacking his previous moniker - Anal...
  
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- Bd2 5 days ago
  Anal/Fake Bd2 = Loser with 15 year old Toyotas, claims this and that about driving Evoras and whatnot. Real Bd2, me = Brand new Kia Telluride, Hyundai Genesis setup to match a 911 GT3 and high paying data science job for the aforementioned Hyundai/Kia/Genesis which only comes with a level of education he can't even reach so really he's just jealous and trying to impersonate me all of the time.
  
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3-On-The-Tree 2 days ago
Compared to the issues we have in the U.S. that's minor.

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