Road rage and self defense
Let’s have a thought experiment: Who is at fault here for the collision? If you’re saying it’s the pickup, sorry, but you’re not correct...
Category: Driving
Combating glare in the daylight
Quick product review here. I have a dashcam in my SUV. And glare is one of the major issues trying to use it, since my dashboard reflects onto the windshield wh...
Arizona’s advice to armed drivers
Arizona recently took the step to update their driver licensing manual to include traffic stops where the driver is armed. Section 7 of the manual is titled sim...
Philando Castile screwed up
I’ll say it up front: Philando Castile screwed up. Big time. In most reports on the trial, this is the breakdown: Castile, a black man, volunteered to Off...
Stopped by police while NOT carrying
I recently posted an adventure I had the other night trying to find an emergency dentist in the middle of the night. One thing I omitted from that description i...
Solicitation
As much as I advocate for free market capitalism — you know, the ability to enter into whatever transactions you want, so long you’re not… say...
Stopped by police while carrying
The Internet is alight with discussion of a police stop involving a person with a concealed carry permit and a weapon on his person. Everyone is, of course, der...
Making it home
It’s been said that nothing makes you more aware of your mortality than nearly meeting it. Tonight, I met mine. An intersection along my route home in Kan...
Self regulation
One of the primary principles of libertarianism, and also capitalism, is the idea of self regulation: people will naturally want to find a way to co-exist that ...
Drive safe out there
It’s become something of a reflex for me. Whenever I part company with someone, I tend to almost instinctively say “drive safe”, or something ...