In the ’60’s, American muscle cars were powerful, fast, and “sloppy” enough that they’d run well even when tinkered with.
By contrast, many of today’s cars are so closely engineered, with so many functions made interdependent because of the use of shared components, that a radio malfunction in my old man’s Mercedes literally crippled his car.
Society, [...]
Consider this:
CNN was running “news” about who Tiger has been with… that was originally “broken” by the National Enquirer. Here’s one of CNN’s pieces.
I look at this as a bad answer to that eternal question: do I give the people what they want… or what they need? Since Thanksgiving, the media has been giving us [...]
“Declining revenues” isn’t a problem, it’s feedback
Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Below is reprint of the post I made one year ago today. Despite (or maybe because of?) another election cycle, nothing’s changed. I marveled, as I stood in a monster security line at O’Hare recently, that anyone is under the illusion that the TSA makes us safer. Reality [...]