"In our history the formation of the United States in her early periods were precarious," Perry tells io9. "Not only were the British poised to retake the South and defeat the insurgents militarily, pre-Constitution the Articles of Confederation created a weak government that couldn't even easily collect taxes. In…

I was laughing so much at this article that the cat decided it was no longer safe to sit on my lap.

Important note:

Bloody mess doesn't begin to describe the outcome of Operation Downfall. It would have come close to doubling the US death toll in WW2 and probably doubled the Japanese death toll in WW2. The assumption on both sides was that the Japanese wanted to raise the butcher's bill so high that the Allies would negotiate…

So, with #3, and really any alternate history in which Germany succeeded in any of their aims, such as capturing Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad, Kursk, and so on, the real issue becomes, "Yeah, what next?"

Drunken Noah, in-depth:

I actually whipped up this concept in photoshop a while ago, to see how lincoln's new styling (which i personally like) could work on a car like the ciel. Keep in mind this is just a 30 minute sketch thats super rough, but I like it. I can almost see it cruising along the coast with a 5.0 burbling away under the hood.