New York traffic laws
First off, thank you for your informative columns-I've had my son, a new driver read very carefully everything you've written concerning auto care and what to do when interacting with the...
Cop Types. . .
Bad laws attract bad people to enforce them - while pushing out the good (and semi-good) people. It's a sort of Gresham's Law as applied to human society. And more, a...
It’s Official: We Are North Korea now
And Obama might as well start calling himself Dear Leader:
Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified...
A Backwards Society…
Driving is a very good proxy for American life in general. The backwards ideas of courtesy are not an exception. American culture is one where instead of eliminating things that aggravate,...
Fiat’s Got Troubles
History may be about to repeat itself - for Fiat.
The Italian automaker's first U.S. model since 1987 is apparently a flop ... so far, at least.
According to The Detroit News...
Here’s What’s Working at the TSA
Lovely...
Yet another TSA screener has been exposed as a pervert after police raided the Maryland home of 41-year-old TSA screener Scott Wilson and discovered videos and photos of child pornography contained...
That Word…. Progressive
Progressive insurance is a lot like public education. Both are euphemisms that sound happy enough but mask a number of not so-smiley-faced realities.
In the case of Progressive Insurance - the...
Time to Throw it in the Woods?
When does it no longer make economic sense to pay for new repairs to an old car? When is it time, in other words, to throw it in the woods -...
Newtie Loves Him Some Mandates
From the Wall Street Journal:
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich praised the health care law that his rival for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, signed in 2006 as governor of...
The Next Step
Are we there yet?
No, but we are getting very close.
We are now at the point, I suspect, that our colonial ancestors were in the early 1770s. They were still British...