Emasculation as Policy
It's not so much that they want your guns. It's your manhood they're really after. I mean this in a generic way, mind. It applies equally to men and women. They...
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...
The Speed Limit Cargo Cult
One of the oddest totemistic fetishes of our age is worship of metal signs with various symbols imprinted upon them.
Speed limit signs, for instance. People are supposed to reflexively obey them...
Here’s How it Will be Done…
Incrementalism has proved depressingly effective as a tool for getting most people to quietly surrender their rights piecemeal. For gradually habituating them to an ever-diminishing circle of liberty. When the circle...
EPAutos is Deay-Ud
Tits up. Done.
Something happened - we're not sure exactly what - about two months ago. We got a notice from Goo-guhl advising us we'd been "de-listed" - for reasons never explained...
Permission Slips Instead of Rights
Our slavery is ingenious because it's so very subtle. Most people not only don't see (much less feel) their shackles - they get angry when someone calls attention to them. Most...
10 Minutes
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away. Ten minutes away, in the case of a home-invasion murder/rape that almost took place last week in Loganville, GA - and which...
Electric Lemon Aid
Elon Musk is brave. You've got to give him that.
After all, the PayPal billionaire and co-founder of Tesla Motors was ballsy enough to provide one of his six figure electric lemons...
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...
The VW “Scandal”
This could kill VW - until recently (until last week) the world's largest car company.
But unlike say the exploding Pinto fiasco this is not a story about defective cars. It is...