it could be said that mr peters writes warnings for things he sees coming our way we might not enjoy. here is one on identification;

In just a few months from now, everyone who has not gotten what is styled a “REAL ID” at the DMV (revelatory, isn’t that?) will no longer be allowed to fly. Everyone must have one of these REAL IDs by next May the 7th in order to be permitted to board a commercial flight.

The net cinches just a little tighter.

A REAL ID is a biometric-encoded national ID card issued by the DMV – which stopped issuing driver’s  licenses years ago when the latter transitioned into the state-level ID cards one must have in order to be allowed to do essentially anything, such as cash a check or buy a bottle of non-prescription cough syrup. Things that have nothing at all to do with driving.

This tells us that a “driver’s license” has to do with driving only in a vestigial sense. One must possess the thing in order to have it when ordered to present the thing to an armed government worker as evidence that you have obtained the state’s permission to drive a vehicle on its roads. It is not a certificate of competence to drive.

This distinction is important because it indicates what the “license” actually is...........more.......