A Modern Take on ‘Planned Obsolescence’
GM - and the auto industry in general - were accused some 40 years ago of perpetrating "planned obsolescence" - that is, deliberately redesigning cars each year, usually in trivial, cosmetic...
Clover Conditioning
It is not enough that we break the heretic. We must make him one of us. Words to that effect, as spoken by the character O'Brien to Winston Smith in 1984....
The Oil Change Co-Pay
If using insurance to pay for everything is such a marvelous idea, why not expand the concept? How come, for example, we tolerate paying for tire rotations and oil changes out...
Now Nothing Is Off The Table
Tomorrow - the Fourth of July - should be considered a national day of mourning.
Having affirmed the constitutionality of Obamacare - that is, of the federal government's asserted authority not...
What Not To Do on Selection Day
The only way to shatter the illusion of consent - the keystone of majority-rule "democratic" tyranny - is by making it obvious to nearly everyone that the Fuhrer (oops, "president") has...
Mittens Comes to Town
Yesterday, I needed to get some new Heli-Coil inserts to fix some damaged threads, so I hopped on one of my bikes and headed into town - "town" being Roanoke-Salem in...
‘Lil Stinker Won… But Government is Winning
'Lil Stinker - my restored '75 Kawasaki S1 "triple" - won an award at the big Ruritan car (and bike and tractor) show held yesterday. That's the good news - for...
Recovering Our Rights: A Place to Start
America didn't become a continental penal colony overnight. It happened step by step, over a period of many years. It'd be wonderful if we could do an overnight re-set, but that's...
AI Will Keep You Safe…
One of the most fearsome predictions made by George Orwell in his novel, 1984, was of the development of a technology capable of monitoring people 24/7, during every waking (and even...
Good People
What does it mean to be a "good person"?
One hears the term fairly often. So and so is a good person. Or the plural - they're good people. But what is...