Buying Into What They’re Selling . . .
Marketing is the business of persuading you to feel the need for something you otherwise would probably have never thought of buying - and to make you feel good about buying...
Dating and Diapers . . .
A reader asks a question about the effect of weaponized hypochondria on dating and relationships; I thought it would be of interest to explore this at some length.
Zane writes:
How has...
2021 VW Tiguan
Getting three rows of seats without getting something big - or pricey - isn’t easy.
Because there aren’t many.
In fact, there’s just one now - the 2021 VW Tiguan. The other two...
Redefining Death
The biggest lies go down easiest - because most psychologically normal people have trouble believing anyone could lie on a scale like that. This is why psychopaths get away with lying...
Codpiece Logic
Wearers of the Holy Facial Codpiece insist that it “works” but also that others wear one - indicating it doesn’t.
The fallback rationalization - and with this sickness, there is always a...
The Americano Cubano
America may soon look a lot like Cuba - with lots of ancient cars on the road, kept on the road by determined owners who want nothing to do with the...
Diaper Report 1/30/21
I've just been informed that my 84-year-old mom is about to be Anointed with the Holy Needle, which is interesting given she has already had the thing the Needle purportedly prevents...
A Tale of Two Idles
Before there were computers in cars, all it took to adjust the engine idle speed was a screwdriver and five minutes or so.
You turned in - or out - a screw...
Accelerated Obsolescence
An interesting thing about GM’s announcement the other day that it will only sell electric cars 14 years from now, by 2035. The New York Times - aka the Pravda of...
Quadruple Diapering?
Insanity tends to worsen when i’s normalized. So it’s not surprising to hear that the day after it was suggested by the “experts” at Virginia Tech that people should triple-down on...