Lives in a Shoe

Respiro Del Diavolo

LOOKS GOOD THOUGH.  

The Aldwych Café, an award winning casual restaurant and ice cream parlor in Cardonald, Glasgow, Scotland, has created an incredibly spicy hot ice cream named “Respiro Del Diavolo“. This highly descriptive name comes from the Carolina Reaper peppers, which that are mixed into the creamy base, creating a measurement of approximately 1,569,500 Scoville heat units which is nearly 500 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. This seasonal flavor is so strong that the management requires those brave souls who are over 18 years old wishing to partake, to sign a release form that holds the café free of any liability upon eating the “world’s most dangerous ice cream“.

THE RELEASE:

Thousands of Juggalos Travel to Washington in One Tiny Car

Good explanation of why:

Romanticized vid from Reason, here, gets the point across, though.

Here's the important thing:  the Founders probably wouldn't have liked the cultural transgressions or the music -- but it is America.  Just that -- America. So let them hear you and don't let them stop you.  

 

 

 

To Recommit Ourselves to a Government That Is Intentionally Limited

 

 

Is Modern Traffic Enforcement All About Dollars Instead of Safety?

Yes.  

So wherever you live and drive, watch out for all types of revenue-driven enforcement and report any you see to the NMA, which keeps an excellent nationwide database. The authorities will never publicly admit it - just as they routinely deny the existence of ticket quotas or that ticket counts are key factors in evaluating and comparing individual officers' job performances - but it is clearly happening nearly everywhere as states, counties, cities and towns continue to rely on ticket revenue for their operating budgets.

That is why you should use a radar/laser detector (legal in the U.S. except in Virginia and Washington, D.C.) and invest time and energy to contest every ticket, whether or not you think it's deserved. If you give in and compliantly pay up on one minor ticket today without a fight, the next one will likely drive your insurance premiums way up for a period of years. Multiple studies have shown, by the way, that radar detector usage actually reduces accidents because their users invariably slow and look around whenever the devices sound off.

From a lifetime of study and observation, I long ago concluded that traffic enforcement in the U.S. has become mostly about revenue, very little about safety anymore. From aggressive enforcement of unreasonably low speed limits to speed and red-light cameras and unreasonably high fines, what evidence is there otherwise?