Rebalancing the Scales
We are peculiarly at the mercy of police. Which goes a long way toward explaining why police are increasingly merciless. After all, they can get away with it. Physically. Financially. Legally.
Consider:
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What to Know About Going Old . . . Before You Do!
Really old cars are becoming popular again - not so much because they are collectible but rather because they are practical.
Some are capable of exceeding the highest-mileage figures posted by any...
CT Heroes SWAT Man’s Home Over Gun Tattoo
NORRIDGEWOCK, ME — Police surrounded a man’s home with sharpshooters and armed troopers and demanded his surrender through a megaphone after someone saw a tattoo of a gun on his stomach.
Michael...
Redcoats
Abuse people and they tend to get angry. Abuse them long enough - without repercussions - and the anger eventually explodes. It is an old lesson, often forgotten.
And which must, therefore,...
The Mantra
Sun Tzu counseled that it is madness - because pointless - to directly confront a superior foe. A costumed goon with a badge and a gun, for instance. You will lose...
What Killed Chrysler?
The news may come today - but it won’t be a surprise: Chrysler’s going the way of Plymouth. Maybe Dodge, too. They are not right for the times and it would...
Hungry Hero
A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the internet who had long fantasized about being killed and eaten, authorities...
Tasered 11 Times Over Turn Signal
Here's a particularly awful story and video out of Glendale, AZ - with implications that are national.
Armed government workers followed a car into a parking lot - over an alleged turn...
Online Dating. . .
What do you do when you are a divorced middle-aged dude looking for female companionship? You go online.
One of the pratfalls of this, I've discovered, is that most of the online...
The Last Buick
It hasn't been announced yet, but Buick won't be around much longer. It's already mostly gone.
GM just announced the cashiering of the Cascada convertible - after less than three years on...