A useful new word. Ineptocracy A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves...Read More
It is ironic that one part of the government is spending money giving people incentives to rip out their lawns while another part of the government is spending a lot of money on an TV ad campaign enco...Read More
We call it the Nanny State and don’t like it because as it attempts to make you safer it becomes intrusive and takes away freedom of choice. But if you call it the Concierge State it sounds pret...Read More
The tables at my neighborhood Starbucks are back. They were gone because of a “permit renewal issue” and I wrote a blog post about it, that was pretty scathing, last week. But this mor...Read More
Pasadena it seems you have your priorities mixed up. My local Starbucks had to remove the outside seating on South Lake Avenue because of a “permitting issue.” And yet in the same block ...Read More
Since the 1970’s Nutritionists and Doctors have been warning about the dangers of fat. Butter was deemed to be a particularly insidious danger and its usage was discouraged. Now the same Nut...Read More
This is the state of the Nanny State in California: In order to improve food hygiene there is a new law that requires that food service workers wear disposable plastic gloves. And in order to save the...Read More
The graph below shows that human deaths from natural disasters have decreased dramatically in the last century contrary to what many people want to believe. There is a normal human tendency to extrapo...Read More
In the long run all OTBE* people search for ways to make their lives easier and more enjoyable. Banning plastic bags doesn’t make life easier and it doesn’t increase enjoyment. For the l...Read More
