Seriously, Learn to Drive

The oddest (and dumbest) thing I’ve seen since I started living in major cities is people having accidents in HOV lanes. You only have to worry about two things in an HOV lane: steering straight and not hitting the car in front of you. Apparently this is too much for some people since [...]

Road Rage Goes Green

The first thing that comes to mind when I think about a Prius is misguided environmentalism, and this morning I had an encounter with a Prius that helped reinforce that sentiment. You buy a Prius to save money on gas and hopefully reduce your impact on the environment by consuming less fossil fuels (never [...]

Move along, nothing to see here

I’ve been catching bits and pieces of the hullabaloo about AIG paying bonuses and Washington knowing about it, supposedly before they gave AIG the bailout money. This does seem a bit outrageous: why are you giving bonuses to people who totally f@#%ed up in the first place, and why are you using tax-payer money [...]