The Super License

You may have noticed my vitriolic tendencies towards the media’s misplaced sensationalisms regarding death and injury statistics.  To paraphrase a Star Trek adage, the death of a few outweighs the deaths of the many.  Not that one person’s death is any less important than another’s, no matter how it happened.  Death and injury (we’re talking…… Continue reading The Super License

This Month, It’s All About Wheels

Petroleum is Aghast CNN ran this editorial last week calling on Americans to quit whining about our gas prices.  By design perhaps, this prompted outrage from several of my well-educated friends citing plain logical fallacies.  “Why should we shut up because you’re paying more?”  Good point.  The fine folks in the UK should be whinier…… Continue reading This Month, It’s All About Wheels

Okay Internet, I want an answer on this one…

The question, “Are the citizens of the United States of America getting screwed?” has rumbled around in my noggin for quite some time now, and I’ve gone out of my way to satiate curiosity in two particular areas that affect nearly everyone in this country: Prescription Drugs and Fuel Economy. Who’s the Fiend? I know…… Continue reading Okay Internet, I want an answer on this one…