By Russ Heaps
Clanging Bell

(July 12, 2016) SAN FRANCISCO — I'm not the kind of guy who looks a gift horse in the mouth. (For you children out there, the term “looking a gift horse in the mouth” came from a time when horse buying and trading was as common among the public as the commerce in used cars is today. One element of the process for the potential horse buyer was to attempt to gauge the steed's health by inspecting its teeth and gums. Back then, it was considered bad form, when given a horse as a gift, to check its mouth.)

By Russ Heaps
Clanging Bell

(May 17, 2016) SAN ANTONIO — I'm not the kind of guy who dwells on the past, but history does interest me. As a one-time Texan, I'm particularly partial to tales of the Lone Star's yesteryear. So, when Honda included me on its media introduction of the 2017 Honda Ridgeline in San Antonio, I didn't need to give it much thought. They had me at “Ridgeline.”