Cav's Place

When I first saw the proposal for the new Dutch road tax, I thought something was finally moving in the right direction. The basic concept is correct: You don’t pollute or damage roads simply by owning a car; you do that by driving it. Plus that purchase taxes discourage people from replacing their old cars […]

I kept saying that depressed people think better, but now there’s even a study to back me up, though the researchers don’t agree with me when it comes to causality. They’re saying that being sad makes people think and recall memories better, while I was saying that thinking things through inevitably results in being depressed […]

It appears that England and Wales are considering giving cohabiting couples better inheritance rights, which is certainly a good thing, but lawyers are complaining about it. I really don’t get this. If those people have shared their lives for so long, you should assume that each of them would want the other to have whatever […]

I find it rather strange that I didn’t write about this before, since I certainly heard a fair bit of talk about it and find it rather bothersome, not to mention really stupid. I’m talking about the debates regarding hanging clothes out to dry and all the places where doing so is already forbidden. It’s […]

My current computer problems reminded me of a few things I read some time ago. I’m actually quite surprised that I haven’t already written about this, but then again there are a lot of things I never get around to writing about, many of them being on my mind far more than this. I’m talking […]