That’s funny, really, because I think we have an awful lot in common with the late 19th century Gilded Age. Incidentally, I once saw that period of American history labelled as “boring,” so it’s no wonder we’re busy repeating all the same mistakes.

yep. not to mention domestic production of f-15s and f-16s. nobody needs to teach japanese how to make an airplane, lazily written, condescending article.

Japan doesn’t have a track record for manufacturing airplanes

That is quite literally why fabian socialists and other patient statist political oligarchs are called progressives, rather than radicals or revolutionaries... they know that they can’t get what they want instantaneously, instead by consistent, patient social pressure over time.

From my cold dead hands

So, if the government came up to your house, which you have had for 60 years, blew up your garage, exposed you to radiation when claiming it was safe and used gang-land tactics to try and take over your land with hostile intent (from bullying and ‘security checkpoints) and THEN tried to pay you, you’d be like “Sure,…

Well they don’t, not in this country. The government truly owns all the land, we just rent it from them, for life, in the form of property taxes. Even if I have lived on a plot of land my whole life, off the grid, all my own utilities, if I don’t pay my property taxes every year the government can still take it away…

Land of the free*

Because Amercan military gear is designed for maximum profit margin for the arms merchant. They probably cost less than the German one to build, but we of course pay much more for them.

Now if only we could apply all this logic to people who swerve at / honk at / thrown shit at / scream at / beat up cyclists.

What makes the biker such a douchebag? Who is he endangering other than himself?

That’s basically saying, “Since you can’t walk, you have lost the privilege to socialize as well.”

Excellent! I’ve seen a similar UK-based report that comes to a similar conclusion (~5% of fatalities are actually due to excess speeds, where excess speeds are relative to the conditions, not the ‘speed limit’).
It’s great posting actual science to refute the derp factor, but unfortunately ‘speed kills’ is quite…

This is what annoys me most. People just like to fling out some arbitrary number and call it safe or unsafe, because they’re very limited experience tells them that x is ‘safe’ and y is not. People forget that E=0.5mv^2 and thus don’t seem to mind when the semi behind them is doing ‘the speed limit’ but proceed to…

I believe speed is simply a by-product of the two things you just mentioned. Lack of Experience and being inhumanly high. I concur.

The last two sentences you wrote are so incredibly true. Basing views off of emotions rather than logic or reason. Every single issue, whether Democrat or Republican is being based on emotion. The liberals do it just a tad more often. I have little faith in fellow US citizens...

I’m disappointed last place isn’t a Cadillac Cimarron...

#MMEQUPPIED

Beautiful photographs. Some of these images would look right at home in William Cameron Menzies’s 1936(?) film, “Things to Come.” In that first picture, that’s gotta be Raymond Massey in the foreground, Ralph Richardson on the other side of the blades.

Actually, the LS is good only because it’s physical size and weight are good relative to the engine displacement you can achieve.