Remember the old guy in the neighborhood who would sit on the porch and shake his bony fist at you while shouting, "You punks get off of my lawn!"? Jim Donnelly is starting to sound an awful lot like that toothless geezer.

Please ignore his babbling, incoherent rant against the changing world in the February 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car.

For all of its high-quality columnists like Jim Richardson who warmly reflect on the past, HCC also employs writers who can find nothing good to say about the present. It gets especially tedious when writers like Donnelly rage against trivial things like internet abbreviations in general and the changing world in particular. He's like the loud grandpa who yells at the TV when guests are visiting.

Then again, maybe he was tight against a deadline and HCC had little choice but to print his first draft. I just wish he didn't come off as such a Cranky Old Fart.