No Ticket For Texas Mayor
A Mundane discovers that some animals are more equal than others:
FRISCO TX – Finding examples where laws magically don’t apply to the political class or their cronies is not a particularly...
A Different Standard For Heroes
A guy drives his Jeep with extreme recklessness, swerving around cars stopped at a red light to try to bully his way through the red light and piles into a car trying to...
Drinking and Driving vs. Drunk Driving
It is important to make distinctions. To know exactly what we are talking about before we "do something" about it.
For instance, drinking and driving and drunk driving. There is a distinction...
Clovers… On the Road (and Otherwise)
I'm often asked - what's a Clover?
Technically, it's a specific person - an incredibly persistent troll on these pages who identified himself (herself?) using that handle. After awhile, it stuck -...
Vampire Cops
Apparently, our money's not enough.
They want our blood, too.
You may have heard about this. In Texas - one of America's, uh, "freest" states - the cops have got the power to...
The Self-Driving Car is Already Here
Your next new car can probably already drive itself. Or at least, can steer itself. Accelerate (and brake) too. Without you doing much - and sometimes, nothing. As these capabilities are refined...
You’ve Got Mail!
You've heard about the automated car.
How about automated policing?
Instead of government drones (that would be cops) picking our pockets at gunpoint, the "work" (and profit) is being turned over to private...
It Begins
If you saw into the floor joists holding up your house, eventually, something bad is going to happen.
This by way of analogy may help to explain the recent murders of a...
Life in The Slow Lane (In a Fast Car)
In the '80s, when most cars were slow, you could drive fast and mostly get away with it. You might get a ticket. But going to jail - or even losing...
Clovers Ed
As a rule, poor drivers aren't born. They are made.
The other day, I came upon one such in process. She (as it happened) was obstructing five or six cars, all bunched up...