The Modern Mayflower?
Living in a van down by the river has become a cultural catchphrase - it was part of a hilarious Chris Farley Saturday Night Live skit back in the '90s about...
Always On High Beams
High beams used to be usually off. You turned them on if you needed them - which wasn’t usually.
That’s about to be turned on its head if a new “safety” proposal...
No More Horsepower For You!
Well, GM has decided it's time to stop touting horsepower and displacement - it's so internal combustion.
Instead, Cadillac will tout Newton meters - the metric version of foot-pounds - to tout...
Brother Bezos
Televangelism used to be where the easy money was . . . preaching about the End Times - which never came - and promising salvation, for a fee.
Put your hands...
Drive at Your Own Pace
On the main road that bisects my rural county, I typically lope along at 75 or so. This, to me - for me - is a reasonable speed. It's within my...
Chrysler Kaput
Fiat has put a hit out on Chrysler. Kissed both cheeks - then one right on the lips.
Tonight, you sleep with the fishes.
Well, maybe not tonight.
But about three years from now.
2020.
It...
Curing Their Sickness – For Our Sake
How to cure weaponized hypochondria?
The first step is not to pretend it isn't by ceding to it the slightest legitimacy. It must be unmasked for the illness it is - which...
Another Volt… Called The Bolt
Why does GM continue to throw money at electric cars?
Perhaps because it's not their money.
It's yours. And mine.
In the form of apparently endless taxpayer-extorted "help" (via federal taxation) to spur the...
Who Killed the Electric Car . . .That Worked?
Michael Moore did a documentary about Who Killed the Electric Car? - but it was about the wrong car.
It wasn't the EV1 - also known as the Impact - that was...
Ululating for “Safety”
The latest?
Uncle wants to require that hybrid and electric cars be fitted with devices that make them noisy, so that the blind will be aware of their presence.
See here.
Apparently, there is...