A prediction on the oil market.

I rarely make predictions about the future, but here’s one: 50 years from now, the vast majority of cars will still be using petroleum or natural gas. Electric cars like the Tesla may remain a niche market for the wealthy hipster market, but aside from that, gasoline is here to stay.

LAUSD will never improve.

The 38,000 high school seniors in the Los Angeles Unified School District may have serious problems applying to colleges. A faulty computerized records system that was newly implemented in August has produced so many errors, the Los Angeles Times reports, that the district has hired hire 25 to 50 retired counselors and administrators to review the transcripts. The cost of the hirees is estimated to range from $15,000 to $25,000 a day.

Why does anyone assume that LAUSD can be fixed? LAUSD is not capable of ever being fixed.

The New York Times is boring.

Has anyone spent much time thinking about how unreadable the New York Times is?  I spent some time just browsing through the paper the other day, and I can’t help but say that the paper is quite boring, trite, predictable, and uninteresting.  Why would anyone in their right mind read such a useless paper?  

Why do we assume government has the answers?

Why do we assume that government has the answers in terms of best safety practices for airlines? The airplanes passengers fly on are the property of the airlines. Each airline should be free to determine whatever security practices it believes is appropriate for the safety of the airline and the passengers. Airlines have every incentive to focus on protecting the airplane: not only is an airplane expensive to replace, but also, the loss of good will from an incident could easily put the airline out of business. Secondly, by having a diverse number of security practices, it would create a lot more unique solutions to securing the airline. Thirdly, airlines would never impose policies that would result in passengers being harassed. I highly doubt airlines would, if they could, pat down elderly grandmothers, children in wheelchairs, and toddlers, but the government does so, because government is about force, not wisdom.