Your Car Isn’t
You paid for it - possibly making payments on it for years. It's your car now . . . right?
Maybe.
But the data it contains effectively belongs to someone else.
Don't believe me?...
The Nine Archons
I've never much liked priests. Those guys (and lately, gals) in black outfits who have anointed themselves the parsers and interpreters of the "word."
Sound familiar?
There are nine such in DC. It's...
Tipping Point?
The work-to-reward ratio has been in steady decline for decades, but may have shifted decisively and perhaps irreversibly since the bottom fell out in 2008. It's bad enough (but still tolerable)...
Officer Go Fuck Yourself
Here's a clip that "law and order" conservative Republican types might get something out of:
A "hero" cop points a loaded assault rifle at journalists and threatens to "fucking kill" them. What...
Hut! Hut! Hut! Heroes Seize “Non-Compliant” Land Rovers
Apparently, old cars now threaten the "homeland" (every time I hear that word used I feel as though I've been inserted into a black and white movie from the '30s about...
Pork Products
There but for the grace of Mike Valentine go I, I thought.
Yesterday was the first nice day we've had out here in The Woods in almost a week. So I took my...
Sexual Battery . . . and Speeding
In Virginia, they're both Class 1 Misdemeanors - along with animal cruelty and larceny. One small notch below a felony. They'll put you in jail for it. The speeding, I mean....
Roasted Kids
If you've been watching the news lately, you already know all about it. And you know what's coming on account of it. Homer's car - you know - the one designed by...
More Than Just Your Papers, Please . . .
Do we live in a police state?
What other state forces non-criminals to submit to fingerprinting in order to obtain permission to drive?
Or merely to exist?
The state of Texas does. So do the...
Clover’s Grampa
It's easy to get hung up on what's legal vs. illegal.
Clovers are completely hung up on it.
And this may be - probably is - calculated, deliberate. The desired object. A very...