Blogs & Ecology

Not far from where I am writing this, three kids on vacation were killed recently when one of them flew his dad’s Audi off the road, shearing trees 40’ up and ending upside down in the lake, after collectively downing 31 drinks. Dad, quite logically, tells the press that “his son would still be alive if he hadn’t been drinking or speeding that night.”

Now I already know everything there is to know about driving; like George Carlin, I know that everyone going slower than me is an idiot and everyone going faster is a maniac. Indeed, reading Tom Vanderbilt’s book “traffic”, one learns tha...