How “Safe” They Aren’t
The other day, I published an article about passive passing. About how people have been conditioned to regard a safely executed fast pass as "unsafe" - and for that reason, most...
Separation Ruminations
We all know it can't go on. Like a bad marriage, the "union" is a barren, emotionally alienated thing held together by nothing more than the inertia of tradition and the...
A Measure of the Bubble
How do you measure a bubble?
One way may be to use what is styled "inflation" - that is to say, the devaluation of the buying power of the fiat currency we're...
Diaper Report: 9/3/22
Is it any surprise that, hypochondria having been normalized, the strange practices associated with this sickness aren't going away?
The wearing of "masks," for instance. If people believe that wearing them "stops...
Passivity in Passing
Oner of the reasons why traffic is so bad has to do with so many drivers being so bad at passing it.
Passing used to involve something called acceleration - a thing...
Breaking the “Fed”
Much rightful criticism is leveled at the private banking cartel that styles itself the "Fed" - the latter term being an attempt to conflate the private banking cartel that loans money...
The Covering Up
If you've raised the hood of practically any new car - or truck - you have probably seen the same thing, irrespective of the make or model.
A black plastic cover over...
Nixon’s the One . . .
He has been gone for a long time but he never truly left. Indeed, Richard Nixon is the spirit animal of the modern Republican Party. Everything he would have done, it...
The Sound of the Light Dying
Here is a sound we'll not be hearing much of soon - except in passing.
It is the sound of a better, vanishing time. A time when ordinary Americans could afford to...
The Common Thread
It's easier to understand the relevant thing - the fundamental thing - about seemingly disparate things, once you come to understand what they have in common.
Two such things, seemingly - superficially...