If “Safety” Really Mattered
In several objective ways, new cars are less “safe” than cars built decades ago.
A strong statement. One that probably seems ridiculous, too, given all the “safety” features new cars have that...
It Won’t Be Like The Jetsons
What does it mean when people talk about self-driving cars? We really ought to be talking about programmed cars.
And about who does the programming.
The “self-driving” car doesn’t decide for itself how...
A Libertarian Dilemma
Not in my Backyard!
But what about when it's in your neighbor's back yard? What is the Libertarian attitude - and response - toward something you don't like being built on someone...
The Electric Greaseman
If you lived in the DC area during the '80s, you will remember the Fall of the Greaseman.
Now living in obscurity - and, apparently, poverty - in a tiny West Virginia...
GM’s New Rent-a-Car Business Model
Renting is a much better deal than buying . . . for the landlord. You - the renter - never own anything. But you pay for everything.
Forever.
This appears to be GM's...
Gas Doesn’t Cost More . . . Our Dollars Are Worth Less
Did you know that gas is cheaper now than it was 50 years ago?
It may not feel it . . . but:
Find an inflation calculator; for example the federal government’s Bureau of...
The Relief Valve
Strong passions can erupt in unpredictable ways.
The government understands this - and desires that strong passions be diverted in a harmless - to the government - way.
Enter the cultivated, culturally and socially enforced obsession with...
Cash For Not Clunkers
You’ve heard the saying that history repeats . . . as farce? Well, here we are. Not quite ten years after the government paid people to throw away perfectly good used...
Trump Fires Termagant
Washington just got a little less ugly.
President Trump has fired Obama's acting attorney general, Sally Yates, over her refusal to enforce the travel/immigration restrictions the new president put into place. Naturally,...
Elon’s Carbon Con (Elections Have Consequences, Part Deux)
People sometimes said Ayn Rand's writing was . . . heavy. Obvious, too. Villains with names too good to be true (or believable). Elsworth Monkton Tooey... rhymes with ... things unpleasant.
Well,...