Tyranny For Profit
Tyranny seems to be as much about getting rich as it is about getting power. There is the example of Michael Chertoff, ex-Oberstgruppenfuhrer of the Heimatsicherheitsdeinst - who made millions via...
EPAutos is Deay-Ud
Tits up. Done.
Something happened - we're not sure exactly what - about two months ago. We got a notice from Goo-guhl advising us we'd been "de-listed" - for reasons never explained...
A View Down The Road
A few weeks ago, I wrote a story about Ford's creepy MyKey system (see here), now standard equipment in all new Ford vehicles, and the ugly possibilities for controlling how we...
The Pledge
Want to know why Republicans - especially Republican "conservatives" - are getting zero traction politically as well as philosophically against the "liberals" they claim to oppose? Why they are a spent...
Short Circuiting The Market
Evidence continues to accrue that the Soviet Union did not disappear in 1991. It simply transplanted itself to another part of the world.
Here.
One of the hallmarks of the Soviet System was...
Mayhem in LA! Cars Must Be Banned!
There was mass carnage yesterday on the Venice Beach boardwalk near LA when a man used his high-powered automobile to run over 12 people - killing one of them and sending...
Clover Taxonomy V
It's time for another installation in our ongoing elaboration of the taxonomy of Homo Cloverensus - aka The American Clover. His characteristics - and doings. How to spot, categorize - and...
Tactical Manual: When – and How – To Run
I wrote a couple week back (see here) about how increasingly Draconian punishments for relatively minor - and purely statutory (i.e., involving no harm to others) traffic offenses - for example,...
Throw Your Plate Away Day
It's too bad - for cows - that they don't have opposable thumbs. If they did, they could do something about those tags that farmers put in their ears.
Luckily, we've got...
The Upside to $4 a Gallon Gas . . .
Gas prices seem to have stabilized - at last temporarily - at the New Normal of about $3.40 or so per gallon for regular unleaded.
But $4 gas did have its upsides....