Lay the blame on Rickover with dropping tradition for political expediency (fish don’t vote!).

As I understand it, Captain James Kirk had command of the USS Zumwalt instead.

Heck, the convention against naming a warship after a living person has already been broken— time to take it the the next level. I bet someone has already floated the idea of making Trump the first sitting President to get a ship named after him while still in office. Someone had to have tried that by now.

Stick an “L” between the C and A, and problem solved.

Mocked up target barges they test missiles with should have ‘A.S.S Trump’ spray-painted on their sterns from now on. Paint some Russian naval ensigns on it for good measure.

“We have come to free you!”

“Send those illegal aliens back where they came from! They’re taking our jobs! MAGA! MAGA!”

If you’re using nature to illustrate your first point, I think you’re off the mark. Herd behavior and deception are nature’s prevalent defense mechanisms against predation, while stealth is employed by predators to stalk and ambush their prey.

You know what they thought in 1913? Technology enabled governments to communicate at the speed of electricity. Steamships made commerce around the world practical. Literary and social progress was in ascendence. These pressures would have to deter the prospect of further war, because you’d have to be a madman to…

There’s only one thing worse than a war— to have nothing that’s worth fighting for.

Impeachment may not produce a conviction, but it will bring this administration to trial. It will lay bare the case and show the world how wrong went this little experiment to see what we’d get if you put a lying coward bully with no applicable skills, talent, or discipline in the White House.

Now, the FBI is in the Justice Department and thus answerable to the AG. But the CIA is State Department, so shouldn’t they answer to the Secretary of State instead?

I had a cat that would lick everything. Herself, other cats, the table lamps, pillows.

The engine’s dieseling. Hot spots in the chambers.

Indeed. The only phenomena of that nature we have here makes the pavement impact you.

As an aside: “half-assed” is the result you get by taking the formal term of “half-asserted” and, well, you half-ass it.

“What if we just used space as a new penal colony?”

...and with far fewer scandals under his belt (and yes, he even goes to the theater more often than Trump).

“Stop calming yourself.” *punch*

That is going to be one hell of a July 4th address...