It’s hard to come up with any FACTS, as you put it, because as we see here, the person whose actions were the first cause of the accident was able to cruise happily away from the scene of the carnage he caused.

It does no such thing unless you grind it up and breathe the dust.

It’s perfectly safe. Plutonium is an alpha emitter. You can hold a lump of it in your hand, and it’ll just feel kind of warm.

It’s up there somewhere....

Actually there’s an argument that says that government itself is a manifestation of market demand.

Obviously Ma Bell is a problem for your argument, unless you just like paying a dollar a minute to talk to the next town.

That will change literally overnight as soon as some asshats blow up a train.

And then people like yourself would take to the blogosphere with complaints about how Ferrari was just following trends set by other companies.

Yeah, the only question is whether a stockholder or a government regulator will be the one to shoot him.

Yes, the same way the availability of short skirts and high heels leads directly to rape.

There are some serious questions here. 1) Couldn’t they afford hats that fit? 2) Why is the blond girl wearing two watches?

And they said Umberto Eco was dead

True, you’re not wrong about how we arguably should have kept our noses out of it. But that’s not how it went down, and once we were involved, we arguably had the responsibility to act in a way that would save the most innocent lives in the long run.

A point worth making: if Truman had allowed MacArthur to nuke the living shit out of Pyongyang in the Korean war, the net savings in lives would have run into the millions by now.

So your highest, best purpose in life is to do a robot’s job?

Well, no, rabbit pellets don’t stink. Diesels do.

Eggs-actly. What am I supposed to do about something 10 feet in front of the car?

No kidding. That’s 911S money.

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Difficulty: America was started by people we would call “terrorists” today.