Tele-Prompter Boy and Obamacare
Listen to this lead-in by a CNN Tele-Prompter reader about a federal judge in Texas ruling that the Affordable Care Act's mandate to buy...
Bankrupt Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America is - apparently - about to file for bankruptcy. This makes me happy, as a former Scout and an...
Guillotines and Red Octobers
The French would be in the streets.
Of course, they are in the streets - but that’s in France. What about here? General Motors just...
The Motor Law
It’s strange to find myself an uncle, with a country place - and an Orange Barchetta out in the garage.
My 1976 Trans-Am.
It is a...
The Speeding Exemption
In Orwell’s other book - Animal Farm - we read about a mutiny against the farmer by the livestock, who draw up a kind...
EVs, the Internet and Missed Possibilities
Electric cars are kind of like the Internet. Both had tremendous possibilities - especially to free people from the shackles that restrained them for...
Teslian eFleas
When corporations get into bed with government, it’s us who get the fleas. Obamacare, for instance.
Big Med plus Big Government.
Sometimes, you can't actually see...
Whatever Happened to The Ricers?
The ‘90s/early 2000s was the last time messing with cars was a common thing among teens and 20s. These were the “ricers” and “tuners” -...
The Evil Has Died
A bit of good news: George H.W. Bush is dead, finally. At least he'll do no more harm. But the harm he did do...
The Great Winnowing
GM’s announcement the other day that it will no longer make cars - or rather, just a few - follows Ford’s previous announcement along...