More people probably read Red October, but Red Storm Rising is so well stitched together across all the various theaters that it remains my favorite as well.

They play a prominent role in Red Storm Rising as well. It’s my favorite Tom Clancy novel. 

The bracketry alone on Binky will be worth more than that...

If we HAVE to stand for a specific song, and HAVE to put our hands on our hearts or risk getting jacked are we really free?

On the other hand, the point of such bombers is to reduce other countries’ infrastructures to the point where their quality of life is much worse... 

Only in the US does 90 kph covert to 55 kph. 

I love it! Reminds me of this:

If only there'd been a massively popular novel written in like 1997 describing fatal lag jams caused by inexperienced climbers paying negligent guide companies to summit that could warn the good doctor....

Some kind of flashing light system or something!

Having a non-running vehicle in their gravel trap may go against their HOA.

Wheely tired.

Milk ducks does having me giggling though. Am considering changing it back. 

When I was a kid growing up in London I would often see Concorde coming in over the city on final approach to Heathrow.

Watching? I came in in 17th place! first time racing for twenty years, I am not going to stop giggling for months,

Phfft. That barely fell over. Here’s the UK doing it properly!

As the parent of an adult daughter who hasn’t always made decisions that I would have wanted her to make, let me be the first to say you don’t kick your kids out of the house just because they quit college if you “love them very much.” 

All the stars.

64 yr old was British, that was his hard Brexit.

This kind of over-regulation is at least part of the reason Brexit happened.