Sure, the thing is, of course, that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, right?  Type up some nonsense about Jesus being a superhero in a post-Armageddon world and it’ll be a best seller for the 50 million or so people who believe God placed dinosaur fossils on earth to test…

When I was a kid, my dad told me Iowa stood for Idiots Out Wandering Around.  

What is this nonsense?  Where did this happen?

This is accurate.  Many of these books are assigned reading somewhere in an American high school.  Some of them are college level.  The rest of really, really popular books for one reason or another.  Gee, why have so many people read the Game of Thrones books?  It’s not like there’s a massively popular TV show or…

I don’t see them spinning it off into a brand, but this is entirely consistent with the history of the Corvette. If you go back to 1953, when it launched, it was designed to compete with the best available sports cars from the era. Or at least the best available ones being brought into the US, like the MG, Jaguars,…

Isn’t the Camry the cheap one?  I forget what Toyota’s line up is like.  The big one is the Avatar or something?  Why does this exist?

I am not an expert on Ford’s status, but one issue is that they are slightly behind everyone else on alternative drive trains and autonomous systems. GM already has the Bolt, an autonomous Bolt, and Super Cruise. Fiat Chrysler is putting their 48 volte eTorque system into Jeeps and Ram trucks. What is Ford doing…

Slavery involved the following factors:

Oh sheesh. This is not “literal slavery.” Forced labor? Sure. But that’s just not slavery. Slavery was a much broader system that involved more than simply forced labor. 

Yeah, your stories with the CJ-2A inspired a small but persistent desire to have one.  I keep an eye out for them. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment building in a city with no place to park it.  Until I get that farm, I’ll just have to dream.  

Power is the prerequisite to doing anything.  What’s “right” is debatable.  Lots of people think it would be right to just throw away the key.  It’s a pluralistic universe.  

What do you think it’s saying, though? Again, I think there are real problems here. But our country is big and made up people with differing views. The task at an election is to get as close to 50% of the voters as possible to vote for you.  (I say that, because many candidates are elected with less than 50% of the…

Let’s say I own a farm (I don’t), and I want a Jeep to drive around my fields. Would I really need a Rubicon, or would any old Jeep be good enough?

Maybe! It is entirely possible that when a pollster asked these people what was the most important problem facing the country, that some of them said “prison reform,” and then the pollsters coded that as “judicial system/courts/laws.” It’s also possible that the people who said the judicial system or courts or laws…

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but prison reform doesn’t show up in Gallup’s poll:  https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/Most-Important-Problem.aspx

I’m sorry, but I really don’t see how this “speaks volumes.”  Prison conditions are a serious issue, but it is also not a top priority, and running on the “make things better for murderers and rapists” ticket probably won’t help your electoral chances.  Candidates don’t have to hop to every issue that comes along. …

Ahh, you got me.

I don’t follow the new naming convention. /nerdsnob

Star Wars is all about a war in space, but they didn’t call it Space War, did they? Duh!

Why do you know that?  I mean, I liked the movie well enough, but do you love it so much you needed to learn obscure trivia about it?