Seatbelt Laws Can Be Deadly
Not "buckling up for safety" can get you killed all right. By a cop.
That's what happened to Deland, Florida resident Marlon Brown about a week ago. Brown was killed - run...
Clover Taxonomy II
What exactly is a Clover? Probably, you already know - having met him (or her) many times already. Or rather, been delayed, impeded or imperiled by one. Clovers are the pebble...
Clover Conditioning
It is not enough that we break the heretic. We must make him one of us. Words to that effect, as spoken by the character O'Brien to Winston Smith in 1984....
It Begins
If you saw into the floor joists holding up your house, eventually, something bad is going to happen.
This by way of analogy may help to explain the recent murders of a...
Just Say No . . . to Cops
Few of us like to interact with cops - like scabies, they are best avoided entirely. But when do you have a choice - and when don't you have a choice...
Clover Taxonomy III
Just as entomologists are always discovering some new species of beetle, new forms of Clover are constantly being identified and cataloged.
Here, fresh from recent field research, are a few of the...
Creative Resistance
About two years ago, I stopped renewing the registration for several of my bikes (I have five). Basically, all the ones that aren't antiques (which have one-time-fee "permanent" tags in my...
Kyle Reese… and Reinhard Heydrich
In the original Terminator movie, Reese - the heroic resistance character sent to our present from a horrific future in which machines tyrannize humanity - displays a bar code embedded on...
Legal Tender… Except When It’s Not
It still says, "legal tender for all debts, public and private" - but it's becoming clear the powers-that-be would much prefer you used something else. Besides cash money, that is.
Increasingly, they...
“Your” Car Won’t Be Beginning in 2015
After a certain point, it's not paranoia.
The latest brick in the wall is the predictably named "Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act," also known as Senate Bill...