Road rage

Counting the Aggression on the Garden State Parkway

Photo credit: Road rage, Wikimedia Commons Counting the Aggression on the Garden State Parkway I’ve discussed road rage driving in the past. But on the Garden State Parkway this week, it was so obvious as to take even a casual observer’s breath away. A footnote first: That road, between the New York Thruway, 87, and the New Jersey Turnpike, is always packed. My car’s GPS-enabled screen continues to advise alternate routes, but who wants a…

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The US as an enraged society

The Enraged Society

Photo credit: SUV that followed on my bumper on the Mass Pike… license plate edited out. Howard Lisnoff The Enraged Society Aggressive driving on US roads is a given. Drive anywhere and at any time, and drive at the speed limit, whatever that is— 45 mph or 65 mph— and like with our foreign and domestic policy, some level of intimidation and violence will happen. Yesterday, July 11, 2025, our car was trailed by someone…

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