Fixing Their Wagon
People are frustrated - and want to know what they can do.
It gets old merely talking. They - our oppressors - don't care how much we talk. Perhaps then it is...
Life in Hock
We live in a society driven by debt.
Cars, for example, have become hugely expensive (even on the low end) relative to what people can afford - because of the easy availability...
Machine Gunning a Tesla
There is an episode of the TV show Top Gear involving a Prius hybrid and automatic weapons. God, I wish I could afford to do the same to a Tesla.
Unfortunately, I...
Taxing (and Antiquing) Them Off the Road
For planned obsolescence to work, you’ve got to keep the conveyor belt rolling. And most of all, prevent anyone from getting off.
It is a problem if people “cling” to their old...
Takata Air Bags Bad… Government Air Bags Good!
Probably the most interesting thing about the (can't help myself) exploding Takata air bag scandal is the doublethink it exposes.
On the one hand, we are told - in the literal/parental sense...
Trump Thinks Your Car’s Gas Mileage is . . .Your Business . ....
The Clovers are aghast that Trump is threatening to do the unimaginable - and stop threatening the car companies with federal fuel economy fatwas (and add-on fatwas forbidding or restricting how...
Throw Your Plate Away Day
It's too bad - for cows - that they don't have opposable thumbs. If they did, they could do something about those tags that farmers put in their ears.
Luckily, we've got...
The Relief Valve
Strong passions can erupt in unpredictable ways.
The government understands this - and desires that strong passions be diverted in a harmless - to the government - way.
Enter the cultivated, culturally and socially enforced obsession with...
Elon’s Carbon Con (Elections Have Consequences, Part Deux)
People sometimes said Ayn Rand's writing was . . . heavy. Obvious, too. Villains with names too good to be true (or believable). Elsworth Monkton Tooey... rhymes with ... things unpleasant.
Well,...
A Big Got Damned Difference
A reader - a Libertarian friend - chastises me for supporting Trump over Hillary; for supporting any candidate who isn't a principled Libertarian. I thought some of you might be interested...
