Latest Radio 10/13/20
Here's the audio of my weekly chat with my friend and fellow wrongthinker Bryan Hyde - who hosts the eponymously titled Bryan Hyde Show!
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Got a question about cars, Libertarian...
Going Limp
I've read that it's an effective defense tactic to go limp - become deadweight - in the event someone's trying to force you to go with them. It's advice directed mainly...
An Even Playing Field
Electric cars aren’t just subsidized - they’re not taxed the same way that non-electric cars are. Their fuel - electricity - is the obvious example. It appears to be inexpensive because...
The Pontiac-Oldsmobile Lesson
GM went from selling seven brands (Chevy, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, GMC, Cadillac and Saturn) to selling just four (Chevy, Buick, GMC and Cadillac) today. A similar winnowing happened at Ford, which...
Why Did They Outlaw Lightbulbs?
As of a couple of days ago, it is illegal for retail stores to sell lightbulbs. Well, incandescent lightbulbs. The reason for this is simple.
They are inexpensive.
And that is always a...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show, 4/16/19
Here's the audio of my chat the other day with Bill Meyer at KMED in Oregon! I will have my chat with Bryan Hyde up as soon as I get the...
Clover Taxonomy V
It's time for another installation in our ongoing elaboration of the taxonomy of Homo Cloverensus - aka The American Clover. His characteristics - and doings. How to spot, categorize - and...
Breakin’ The Law….
You can't fight city hall, the saying goes - and it's true. You're at their mercy - and are forced to play by their rules. When you get a traffic ticket,...
“General Welfare” and “Climate Change”
Why do we have unlimited government? Probably because the document that was supposed to limit it has done the opposite.
People were told the federal government could do no more than was...
The Vampire Effect
One of the subtler - and most vicious - ways the government renders us more dependent on it is by rendering us less able to help ourselves and one another.
I just...