Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Sunday, 2025.10.19 
There is an important law about power that is too often overlooked by rational
and peace-loving people. Any form of power, from the most primitive to the most
mind-boggling, is always amplified enormously when it falls into the hands of
those whose behavior is wild, erratic, and unpredictable. A gun being waved back
and forth by a maniac is far more disturbing to us than the gun in the holster
of the policeman, though both weapons are equally capable of shooting us dead.
And what is true of guns is far more true in the case of nukes.

		Lee Harris

2004.05.20

Steel Belted Face Lifts

I’ve come to the opinion that automobiles are like affordable plastic surgery for the masses without all the blood, gore and recovery. By simply shelling out the requisite number of bucks, you can change your identity.

Presto! Zappo! That 55 year old baggy ass of yours can be zipping around town like a teenager, Miata style. Feeling flabby and weak? Bulk up with a shiny new SUV and power your way across even the most daunting of shopping mall parking lots. And of course, what better way to mask all that ugly debt than with a luxurious Caddy, just oozing opulence.

This must be the case, because people certainly drive like somebody other than who they are when outside of their little metal bubbles.

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