It’s the Dose . . . Not the Source
Did you happen to see the picture of the electric car "fast" charger being charged by the diesel generator? It's Kodachrome evidence of the Moon-baying lunacy of this whole Electro-Kool Aid...
Peacekeeping II: Addendum
My article on "A Return to Peacekeeping" (here) has done what I had hoped - prompt serious discussion about practical ways to ratchet down the police state . . . before...
New Cars Are Sometimes Easier To Fix . . .
The conventional wisdom is that new cars are a maintenance nightmare - tough even for professional mechanics with all the right tools to service. There is a lot of truth to...
A Practical Guide For Dealing With Cops
Never pick a fight with a superior opponent - especially if he has back-up and you don't. The over-riding objective in such a case ought to be evasion and obfuscation; getting out of the...
2021 Toyota Venza
Well, it’s back. Most people probably didn’t know it was gone.
The Toyota Venza.
It’s been absent from Toyota’s roster of models since the 2015 model year, probably because Americans, for whatever reason,...
Affordable Used Cars Are Still Available . . . If You Wait for Them
Not all used cars are expensive cars - you just have to know where to look for them. And how to wait for them.
A friend of mine recently did just that....
Maybe Napoleon Was Right…
Napoleon believed in liberty - just not for most people.
Most people, he reportedly said, are herd-cattle not capable of living as individuals in society without the external restraint of authority to...
The Decline and Fall of Automotive Journalism
"Mainstream" - that is, corporate - journalism died when it was bought, as by the drug cartels (Kudos, Woody Harrelson). Car journalism fell victim to the same forces, which homogenized journalists,...
On Spending to Save . . .
Hybrids are getting popular again - because gas is being made expensive again. It's an interesting - a bizarre and entirely artificial - dynamic.
The government - which is to say, the...
What’s the Plan, Stan?
A useful measure of intelligence is future-time orientation - i.e., thinking about what might happen tomorrow (and next year) and taking steps to prepare for it.
In the past, this meant making...