Creative Resistance
About two years ago, I stopped renewing the registration for several of my bikes (I have five). Basically, all the ones that aren't antiques (which have one-time-fee "permanent" tags in my...
Bad Boy!
When I leave my gym, there's a red light at the intersection that literally takes five minutes to change. Often, it will skip the green arrow for people waiting to make...
Breaking Through
Lenin asked, "What is to be done?"
The question facing liberty-minded people almost 100 years later is the same. But our answer should not be Lenin's answer - violent lashing out.
I get...
Why Muscle Cars – The Original Ones – Still Rule
A new V-6 Mustang or Camaro gives you about 100 more hp than the V-8 in my Trans-Am put out when it left the Norwood, Ohio line back in the spring...
85 MPH: Almost a Speed Limit
On a stretch of road near Austin, Texas there is an actual speed limit. Or at least, close to one.
You can drive up to 85 MPH on Texas Highway 130 -...
On “Speeding”
The government cares about revenue - and control. It posts speed limits accordingly.
At best - that is, assuming benevolent if condescending intent - they are posted based on the least common...
The Double Yellow Prison
This country is painted over with double yellow bars - a sort of rolling-ribbon prison, from which escape is not possible. Or at least, very difficult. Legal passing zones - always...
Legal Tender… Except When It’s Not
It still says, "legal tender for all debts, public and private" - but it's becoming clear the powers-that-be would much prefer you used something else. Besides cash money, that is.
Increasingly, they...
Insurance & Racial Profiling
There is near-universal outrage when an individual is treated as a member of a group when that group is racial or ethnic in composition. More than that - it is illegal...
Cypher’s Choice
In the original Matrix movie, there's a character named Cypher who decides that life is more comfortable for him within the confines of the false-reality programming that is the Matrix. He...