Punishment vs. Being Held Responsible
Which is better?
Which is right?
Punishing people ... or holding them responsible for the harms they cause?
Libertarians think (well, this Libertarian thinks) it is enough to hold people responsible for any harms they...
Another Canary in The Coal Mine…
Another canary in the coal mine has just dropped to the bottom of its cage.
A few weeks back, I wrote about evidence that the bubble-ized new car business - “sales” inflated by...
No Smoking… In Your Own Car
Soon, they'll be coming for your cigarettes.
In your car.
See Sandra Bland.
Or, the study released by the CDC that characterizes "second-hand smoke" as the latest threat to "safety" and (of course) "the children." It urges...
Tesla All Fired Up…
Tesla is all fired up.
Literally.
At a demo for media in Paris, a Model S went up in smoke. Caught fire, burned itself to a smoldering slag heap.
At a media event (see here). Where...
Now Uncle is “Investing” in Tesla
Elon Musk may be the ultimate crony capitalist - the PT Barnum of our time.
But to give PT his due, he was an honest con man.
He never used the government to...
Who Watches the Watchmen?
It’s one thing to be told you must obey the law. But what being told to obey a cop who is acting contrary to the law?
This happens routinely - and (usually)...
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...
Moby Dick in Your Glovebox
The fact that a new car owner’s manual is novel length - some are longer than Moby Dick - says a lot about how out of hand things have become.
Is this...
Public Roads as Tesla’s Private Test Track
Logic - let alone reasonableness - is not one of government’s stronger suits. There are many examples of this, but here’s a newsie one: The use of public roads as test...
The Car Bubble … and Cash for Clunkers II?
A guy who smokes meth can pull a week of 15 hour days. But come next week… .
That’s how artifical “incentives” work on the economy. On the macro level, it is...