The Controllers . . . If We Let Them
Why did people fall in love with cars?
I mean, why did they used to fall in love with cars?
It wasn’t because of speed or sex appeal - though those things certainly...
The Other Diesel Fatwa
Everyone knows about the drawing and quartering of VW over the “cheat” software embedded in the inscrutable labyrinth of code, deep within the “affected” cars’ computers. The code tweaked the engines...
The Heroin of “Signing Up”
A good friend urges me to “sign up” for Obamacare. He knows about the extortion letters I have been receiving from the federal thugs who are now the enforcers for the...
Goodbye, Sergio
Sergio Marchionne has died - and we are the poorer for it.
Just 66 years old, the workaholic, smoke-a-holic and espresso-a-holic apparently suffered an embolism during surgery to deal with an "invasive...
Trump Derangement Syndrome on Nitrous
As a journalist I understand completely why so many people rightly loathe the media. It is because the media no longer understand - or just doesn't give a damn - about...
What it Means to be a Law Enforcer . . .
It is no accident that police have become more brutal - in appearance as well as action - since they became law enforcement.
The term itself is a brutal syllogism. The law...
Bell Bottom Blues
Bad timing is everything.
Try, for example, selling bell-bottom corduroy pants today. Oh, Behave!
In 1977, it was another matter. But it is no longer 1977. Thank god, the government doesn’t (yet) mandate...
False Flag Efficiency
One of the many cons being perpetrated upon the car-buying public is that the very small, very turbocharged four cylinder engines being served up as replacements for “thirsty” V6 and even...
Chipped Tires
Tires are supposed to leave tracks - not track us.
Someone should tell the tire companies. Who aren’t telling us about the tracking devices they’re embedding in the tires they’re selling to...
Meatsacking and Solyzynitsyn
Thank the motor gods, automated car technology is nowhere near ready - because the people are.
Ready to sit and gape and text and wait. Anything except drive. They will welcome the...