Embracing Disposability
Americans who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s - which lasted into the 1940s - learned through hard necessity about the value of frugality. About not wasting money on...
Elections Matter
Yes, I know. This dirty business of elections is just what Bismarck meant when he spoke of sausage making and how you'll never want to eat one again once you see...
The Return of Badge Engineering
Why did GM retire its Pontiac and Oldsmobile brands? It was because they'd stopped engineering cars. They had become marketing divisions for the same (fundamentally) "GM" vehicles also sold under other...
2024 Audi A5 Coupe
There used to be a kind of car called the personal luxury coupe. These were mid-sized two doors with four usable seats and a decent-sized trunk, so they were both stylish...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 03/26/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with my friend Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Utah! We talked about the bridge incident in Baltimore and whether it...
Diaper Report: 03/26/2024
Something interesting - and revelatory - to report: The actor Forrie Smith was apparently kicked off a commercial flight recently, after he refused to sit next to a person wearing a...
Unintended Consequences
Unintended consequences can be beautiful things - when they are contrary to the intentions of malicious people. A good example being the unintended consequences of the lying-to-people about the mRNA drugs...
Empty Houses
During the early months of what was marketed as the "pandemic," I noticed that people weren't dying. At least not obviously - as you'd have expected based upon the hysteria. The...
Would You Still Want to Drive . . .
What if you had to obey - to the letter - every single traffic law, from no-right-on red to no-passing if the pass requires "speeding," even a little bit? How about...
The Hybrid Trap
Don't be fooled. They are still coming after your car. More accurately, they are still determined to use the regulations that are forcing electric cars to be the only kinds of...