OK, it’s not really a ski boat. It’s built to move “merchandise.” It has 2,000 horsepower and a fuel capacity of 4,000 gallons. Note the extremely low profile, which helps it escape radar detection. Outfits called Crompton Marine and Nautexco Marine were getting nearly $700,000 each for boats like this, to operators using them between … Read more
Corry, one of my favorite observers of Western civilization, called my attention to this gem in which a mom getting orange soda and her 12-year-old son got the full S.W.A.T. treatment during a shoplifting investigation. Quoting the article: With the rifle trained on her and an officer clad in helmet and body armor advancing toward … Read more
I didn’t see the birth of the World Wide Web, but given the amount of change it’s undergone since my first exposure, I might as well have. I was on the Web when there were merely tens of thousands of pages (instead of billions today), and almost all of it was black Times New Roman … Read more