The Disconnect
If the government is so very concerned about Our Safety, why is it forcing millions of people to drive around in cars with double-dangerous Takata airbags in them?
But there is a...
Californication, Continued
The Californication of the car industry is about to accelerate - once the former head of California’s notoriously anti-car Air Resources Board, Steven Cliff becomes the new head of the federal...
Crime Does Pay
Making crime pay is literally true in America nowadays. Not just token work like making cons stamp out license plates or pick up trash along the Interstate. There's not much money...
A Segregated Thought Experiment . . .
At least there were "colored" fountains for black folk back in the days of segregation.
In the New Segregation days coming - if we let them - there will be no fountains...
The Diapered Donkey Gets its Dole
A reader takes issue with the publication on this site of details regarding the Corona Lucre - approximately $120,000, apparently - pocketed by a business I used to do business with ...
Going Galt … on Wheels
Lenin, the mass-murdering father of modern practical authoritarian collectivism, wrote about what it is to be done? I have a better idea. How about what we each can do - on our...
The Coop-in-Process: Installment II
The weather gods were cooperative yesterday, which was the first day for several days we didn't get doused with heavy rain. Which makes pouring concrete a no-go. I had to cover...
The Rising Cost of Entry Level
There is some good news.
The chief piece of it being that on an inflation-adjusted basis, the typical $15,000 or so brand-new economy car - something like a Nissan Versa ($14,830) or...
Better Than Paying it Forward
You have probably heard about "paying it forward" - by which is meant (essentially) do something nice, proactively.
Paying cash for everything you still can is even better - because if enough...
Elon’s “Earnings”
It is being “reported” that Tesla’s net “earnings” have “surged” to $438 million. What they do not report is that this includes $518 million “earned” via regulatory credits - which aren’t...