Justinian C. Lane's Personal Blog

Every now and then, I run across someone who lost a loved one because of a defective product or drug or due to an accident, but who doesn’t feel it’s “right” to file a product liability lawsuit.  They sometimes tell me they’d feel wrong getting “blood money” from a loved one’s death, or that it would feel weird, or any number of other excuses that often boil down to guilt.

First, it was NHTSA head David Strickland.  (Read about that here and here.) Now. former DOT Secretary Ray LaHood has cashed in his “public servant” chips to make a bundle representing the folks he used to regulate.  It wasn’t supposed to be this way:

The revolving door strikes again.  Rather than make Chrysler go through the same testing Ford had to when the Pinto had gas tank problems, the NHTSA head makes a phone call to the CEO of Chrysler and makes the problem go away.  Not coincidentally, the NHTSA head is going to work for a lobbying firm that Chrysler uses.

Look at this bullshit peddled by Forbes about lawsuits against sports agencies over misclassified interns:

My solution is quite simple: Car manufacturers should just put iPad Minis in the dash. 

Texas won’t allow counties to enact fire safety regulations because Texas as a state wants to lure large industrial businesses here.  So what if the occasional plant blows up...