Much Better Than: You’re Fired!
Trump has imposed a regulatory freeze and has threatened a hiring freeze - no new federal "workers" for now (and hopefully, some time to come).
No wonder the stock market is up.
America...
A Tale of Two Cities. . . Trump’s Washington and Hidalgo’s Paris
In Washington, President Trump announced that environmental regulations are “out of control” - and promised to get them back under control.
In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo (which sounds about as French as...
Dealing With Checkpoint America
If you have the bad luck to toll up on a DUI “sobriety” checkpoint, how should you handle it?
The fact that you haven’t been drinking is, unfortunately, immaterial.
Every person entering one...
How We Got To Here
America is in trouble because Americans got lazy. Not so much physically but morally. They began to care more about some passing thing than about the things that truly matter; the...
The Not Better Mousetrap
Ford just announced it will no longer sell a V6 Mustang beginning next year. The 2018 Mustang, which will also get some styling tweaks, will be offered only with the currently optional...
The Hybrid Mustang Makes My Teeth Hurt
At the Detroit Auto Show reveal of the soon-to-be-produced hybrid Ford Mustang, marketing manager Mark Schaller said the following: “The world has figured out a way to take that technology and...
The Crazy Thing Trump Could Do . . .
Borrowing - bowdlerizing - a line from Shakespeare: First thing we do, let's kill all the regulators.
Well, maybe not kill them.
Firing them would be enough.
Or even just threatening them with being fired.
Like...
But There’d Be No Roads!
Along with the Myth of Authority - the idea that being ordered about by other people is legitimate so long as those people have given themselves titles or wear uniforms -...
Kill People, No Problem… Just Don’t “Cheat” Uncle
A VW engineer may be going to prison - and has already been professionally (and probably personally) ruined… for having “cheated” the EPA. Which is like expelling a picked-on kid who...
“Services” Rendered. . .
It's bad enough getting arrested - especially when you didn't do anything to warrant it. This happens all the time, because the the threshold for arresting someone is very low. It can...