Some thoughts on the foolishness of resisting car thieves, why Berkshire Hathaway invested in China’s EV powerhouse BYD, and Jew hatred crossing a new threshold on LinkedIn.

Some thoughts on the foolishness of resisting car thieves, why Berkshire Hathaway invested in China’s EV powerhouse BYD, and Jew hatred crossing a new threshold on LinkedIn.
May 26, 2024 — Humor
Great comedy often features brilliant insights, so I thought I’d share some videos providing valuable perspectives on Vice President Kamala Harris, America’s pro-Palestinian campus protesters, and the hypocrisy of Hollywood.
The post also features a podcast interview with Columbia student Marie Adele Grosso, who was among the Columbia encampment students arrested and was previously featured in the New York Times. An opportunity to see and hear for yourself the wisdom and knowledge of a college pro-Palestinian protester.
The New York Times’ damning takedown of Nicole Shanahan, the running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealed as much about the former newspaper of record’s institutional character as it did about Shanahan’s.
May 22, 2024 — Business, Politics, Technology
President Biden recently slimed China’s communist government and its automotive industry entrepreneurs with a false accusation they achieved their EV supremacy because they cheated. In fact, China achieved its EV supremacy because that country’s communist government is run by bureaucrats who run circles around the Biden Administration’s energy and transportation officials and its EV automotive leaders put GM’s and Ford’s to shame.
May 17, 2024 — Antisemitism
Critics of President Biden’s decision to halt weapons shipments to Israel say he was kowtowing to the antisemitic supporters of the Democratic Party. Among the most die-hard antisemitic supporters is the UAW, whose endorsement Biden coveted and ultimately received.
Michigan has been on a downward trajectory for many years. GM CEO Mary Barra just drove another nail in her state’s economic coffin and reaffirmed that news of California’s technology leadership death is greatly exaggerated.
I’ve long known that flight attendants were poorly compensated but never appreciated that many were living in poverty.
May 11, 2024 — Humor
My first automotive review with a technical focus I guarantee you won’t find reading Car and Driver and Road & Track.
May 9, 2024 — Business, People, Technology
Google was long hailed as the gold standard of what was once known as HR management. It’s telling how much in common Google employees share with UAW autoworkers these days, including some similarities that are very unflattering.
May 7, 2024 — Business, Media, Technology
Determining how best to harness and apply AI is all the rage these days, and CEOs are paid the big bucks because of their supposedly superior smarts to figure it out. At Ford, whose CEO Jim Farley received more than $60 million in compensation these past three years, the company plans to use AI to create Hollywood quality “edutainment” videos that it hopes will steal viewers from Netflix and Amazon and bolster the sales and service capabilities of its dealerships.
Let’s just say I’m a tad skeptical.