Mary Wollstonecraft, an acclaimed 19th century writer and activist, once said, “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.” In everyday life, I believe this is largely true. We give in to the yearnings of either lust or money (and, really, there is very little difference) and Hell follows. [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged activist, America, antibodies, Brit, business, car, choose, comfort, consequence, decision, English, evil, feedback, goods, greed, grudge, happiness, hell, host, House, human, indulge, intelligence, international, jet, Jetson, lie, loop, lust, mammal, Mary, material, mistake, momentum, money, more, negative, party, peace, politic, pursuit, redeem, resolution, revenge, rich, species, standard of living, temper, tension, treachery, United States, vaccine, vehicle, vengeance, virus, weapon, Wollstonecraft, writer on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bad Driving
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, tagged bad, car, cell, charming, cop, drive, driver, driving, evidence, example, luck, motor, Oprah, phone, photo, police, post, results, skill, vehicle, video, What the F*ck Zup on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With Oprah’s push to stop cell phone use while driving, and all the various photos and videos providing evidence of why some people should not be allowed behind the wheel, I thought I’d post something a bit lighthearted on the subject of driving. At the charmingly named website “What the F*ck Zup Dot Com” resides [...]
Hoist the Flag
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged abandon, action, America, American Dream, animal, basement, Bernie, black, blood, booty, build, burn, business, bust, call to arms, car, caution, Charles, cheat, chest, city on a hill, claim, company, conclusion, conscientious object, consequence, construction, context, corporation, credit, cry, damage, Darwin, desire, dollar, drought, drywall, employer, evolution, fact, family, fear, fellow, fight, flag, flip, flood, floor, freedom, frost, future, garden, generous, global, goodness, government, grace, grade school, H. L., hoist, homeless, House, hungry, hurricane, insurance, internet, investment, job, joist, liberty, lie, life, lose, Madoff, man, meaning, Mencken, money, mortgage, need, normal, nothing, pacifism, pay, payment, payoff, pirate, planet, plunder, policy, profit, rally, read, reality, risk, sales, see, sentiment, slit, society, something, spoils, stand, steal, storm surge, structural integrity, structure, survival, sword, tax, tempt, theory, throat, treasure, treatise, trust, unemployed, useless, utopia, value, victor, Wall Street, wallboard, want, war, warning, wave, weed, wind, word, work, worthless on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want to throw caution [...]
Nikola’s Newest Incarnation
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged 3G, AC, acceleration, air-conditioning, amenities, American, automobile, automotive, battery, capacity, car, charge, connectivity, conversion, convertible, cruise control, delivery, dream, electric, family, hatchback, hood, horsepower, hybrid, impressive, life span, maintenance, mileage, Model S, MPG, mph, Nikola Tesla, performance, power connector, power doors, power windows, price, product, progress, pun, roadster, rpm, seat, sedan, Signature, speed, Sport, sports car, stereo, suspension, tech, technology, Tesla Motors, touchscreen, trunk, upstart, vehicle, Volkwagen on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I titled this post Nikola’s Newest Incarnation to tip my hat toward old Nikola Tesla, who changed all our lives, and to pull out a terrible pun. See, this is about the upstart automobile manufacturer Tesla Motors (hence the Nikola). And since they build cars… Incarnation = in”car”nation. Get it? (I told you it was [...]
Cash For Clunkers, the Newest Con
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged block, budget, burden, buy, buyer, car, Cash For Clunkers, choice, class, con, consumer, cost, credit, crush, dealership, demand, destroy, economy, engine, government, hardship, incentive, liquid glass, low-income, market, mileage, new, price, pro, program, purchase, salable, shred, stimulus, supply, trade-in, truck, used, value, vehicle, voucher, water glass on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cash For Clunkers seems like a pretty good program. Bring in a not-so-great vehicle and get up to $4500 in credit toward a new vehicle, a value virtually no one would get from a traditional trade-in program. There are a few stipulations but nothing outlandish. And it’s helping both the consumer and the economy, right? [...]
The Speed of Fate
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged accident, Bewowulf, car, death, Ford, school, teacher, yellow lab on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere in high school I remember reading Beowulf. I had the “bad” habit of reading more than we were supposed to and often jumped ahead to read what I thought would be more interesting. The curriculum was very slow-paced and I spent years in terminal boredom trying to amuse myself with the tiny library at [...]
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