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A Tale of Two Sales

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BMW announced the other day it is cancelling production of the i3 - its first and so far only electric car. The reason is pretty straightforward. They’re not selling well. Correction: They’re not...

Redundancy

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Every motorcycle has more than one way to turn the engine off. There is a simple, mechanical switch - in addition to the keyed ignition switch - that one can use to...

Dirty Laundry

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Remember that old Eagle's tune about the bubble headed bleached blonde who comes on at five? She can tell you about the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye. The song...

Charge It….

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In “Third World” countries - the ones Americans take comfort in making fun of - they just take your money. The cops, I mean. No pretext, just hand it over. And now, here. The Oklahoma...

A New Species of Clover

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When things start going bad, they almost always get worse. Driving, for instance. Passivity and ineptitude behind the wheel have been almost deified as the apotheosis of "defensive" and "safe" driving. Not surprisingly,...

Corporate Cultism

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GM switched from making cars to making Holy Rags - and now Ford is trying to sell you on wearing them. And on getting the Holy Jab. A slew of ads touting the...

The Commuter (and Privacy and Other Things) Tax

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If you don’t wan't your dog to run away, you leash him. The government doesn’t want you to run away, either - but has a different kind of leash in mind. The...

Scanners

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The criteria for defining an illegal search has never been whether you’re aware of the search having been performed. If, for instance, investigators sneak into your house, go through your things...

End of the Electrified Road?

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We are now at the point with battery-powered devices pretending to be cars that we were with mRNA drugs pretending to be vaccines. The truth is out - and people are...

The Saaaaaaafety Exemption(s)

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It's a curious thing . . . The same government which says it's so very “concerned” about our saaaaaaaaaaaaaafety that it won’t allow us to ride a motorcycle without a helmet -...
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