Expansive definitions of infrastructure have become a running gag on the internet, but credulity-straining inclusions in the $1 trillion bill like an Amtrak vaping ban shouldn’t blind us to the imprudence of federal spending on some of the things that fit the definition of infrastructure well….
Crime doesn’t matter — but compliance does. The distinction is important because it conveys something important about the true nature of the government we endure. Crime — actual harms caused to real people — goes largely unpunished because it does…
The housing shortage in the USA is a function of so many market distortions, perversions, delusions, and convulsions that there’s little real left in real estate. It’s pointless to even start with the common stats — we’ll get to some in due…
The joke goes like this: How do you double the value of a Yugo? Fill up the gas tank! True enough. And yet nearly 800,000 of them were made — all the way through 2008, a fact not many are…
The latest thing is a “key” that isn’t even a fob — the thing that has largely replaced the physical keys that used to be the way you started a car or unlocked its doors, as by inserting them and turning…
In an irony probably lost on General Motors, California has banned until further notice the sale of the Chevy Camaro SS and ZL1 — the high-performance versions of the Camaro — on the basis of “concerns” about the effect on the environment…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, apparently still intoxicated by his unchecked coronavirus-created power of edict, grabbed national headlines last month with a show-stopping executive order that promises to save the planet from climate-change-induced doom. He announced a “bold” plan to ban the sale…
Imagine, if you can, a truck with factory-mounted seats in the bed — and spotlights the size of a 747’s landing lights mounted on its T-topped roof. If you know this truck, you also know why it’s no longer available….
Almost everyone enjoys a good road trip — but not many road trips are like the one I made in two hours and 23 minutes back in the late summer of 1995 in a brand-new Mustang Cobra R. The trip from…
