The Next “Safety” Jihad
When things get ridiculous they tend to become hilarious.
Or, pathetic - and aggravating.
Example: The government wants to require that hybrid and electric cars be fitted with devices that make them noisy,...
The VW “Fix” Just Got a Lot More Expensive
Better hide your diesel VW.
Turns out that some of the "affected" models will require more than just a quick, easy (and free) software adjustment to placate Uncle.
Actually, it is most of...
If It Saves Even One Life…
We hear that cloying bleat from the advocates of "safety" (at gunpoint) befehls all the time. If it saves even one life, it's worth it! They use it to justify helmet...
Fixing The Cop Problem
That we have a Cop Problem is obvious. How to fix it, not so much.
The problem - a chunk of it, at any rate - derives from an overweening postmodern concern for...
The VW “Fix” (Or: Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels)
Never take a wooden nickel.
Or a "credit card" from VW.
Reportedly, the under-siege automaker is going to send out prepaid credit cards (see here) to people who own one of the diesel-powered...
The C02 Trump Card
It had to happen - and now it has.
VW - and soon, everyone else, inevitably - is under the gun over "emissions" that aren't even pollutants.
Carbon dioxide.
This inert gas (look it...
Kicking Ourselves in the Nuts
VW just announced it has lost nearly four billion dollars ($3.84 billion, to be precise about it) so far as a result of the "cheating" debacle. This does not include the...
FuhrerPrinzip
Free people don't look for "leadership." But that's what every candidate for the presidency - regardless of partei - is offering to give them.
Such people deserve what they will get.
They have,...
People Who Like to Boss Other People
People who like to tell other people what to do (aka, Clovers) are an interesting study.
Well, they're odd at any rate.
Perhaps disjointed is the better word.
They will, for example, talk sententiously...
The Object of the Exercise
Have you been caught behind a school bus recently?
They are hard to miss - and not because they're really big and very yellow. In my area - and probably yours, too...