California – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Is Everyone In California High Or Stupid?

Big Red Car — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:06:51 +0000

This is one of those blog posts that writes itself — free government-provided, taxpayer-funded alcohol for homeless alcoholics — but first I had to confirm what I had heard was correct. Let me launch into it. Homelessness is not a pretty picture, especially in California and San Francisco. San Francisco claims it is now enjoying […]

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Fast Food Surge Pricing? Price Gouging? WTF?

Big Red Car — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:59:09 +0000

There are ideas that sweep through the business world that slowly work there way into every aspect of business though at first they seemed a little odd. It’s like going to the beach and coming home with sand in your shoes — it’s everywhere. I offer two examples: 1. Creating a club around a set […]

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Trick Question

Big Red Car — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 07:39:59 +0000

What would a reasonable man or woman conclude from the data presented below? Take your time. This can’t all be attributable to HP, Tesla, and Oracle can it?

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Killing The Gig Economy

Big Red Car — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:25:24 +0000

A lot of trends, suspect ideas, cultural quirks, and bad laws start in California and spread across the country. Case in point is California Assembly Bill 5 which destroys the gig economy by imposing standards on the employer-employee relationship that prevent the gig economy from functioning in a manner as it currently does. Lyft and […]

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Manhole v Personhole v Maintenance Hole

Big Red Car — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:32:19 +0000

I have been on a journey of discovery. For a year I have struggled — admittedly unsuccessfully — with how to confront an increasingly more troubling, harsher, complex world. This week, the Berkeley, California, City Council showed me the light when they renamed MANHOLES as MAINTENANCE HOLES, thereby driving off the offensive stank and horrific […]

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