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Over five hundred cubes, AND a carburetor on top ?! The vent windows have nostalgic appeal. - but - By 3rd millennium standards that contraption is a death machine. air-bag? seatbelt? collapsible steering column? disc, or anti-lock brakes? radial tires? Real pretty though. 🏎️

Here's a closer look: Paul Gilliam’s Triple Crown–Winning 1953 Studebaker - Hot Rod Network https://www.hotrod.com/articles/paul-gilliams-triple-crown-winning-1953-studebaker...

And were not the first to do so. Check out these two Studebakers: If after such comparison there are still doubters about the inevitability of progress, please consider a more fundamental reality of language. "Pro-" and "con-" are prefixes that have meant the opposite of one another for...

point: counterpoint: Some critics of the automobile, the horseless carriage sounded the alarm. Excluding horses from U.S. transportation would put workers in the buggy whip factory out of business. Indeed so. Right? A disaster? Unemployment will skyrocket? So far, not so much...

Food insecurity and hunger in the United States affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work. The United States produces far more food than it needs for domestic consumption—hunger within the U.S. is caused by some...

Oh Lou, you are sooooo last Tuesday ! Certainly in the previous millennium when you blurted out this anachronism, political candidates could correct misrepresentations of their own position falsely made by their political opponents. It's a different world now Justice Brandeis. President Trump...

- fine - BUT ! What's with the bar code? ... and while we're on the "Archie" theme, what shall we make of the cliché of the vector of romantic love being administered by cherubim archers? OED love: A feeling or disposition of deep affection or…...

Valentine's Day Holiday observed on February 14 Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also...

ICE to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across US, document shows The plan states that the centers are necessary as ICE prepares for an expected surge of arrests in 2026 after the hiring of 12,000 more agents. $38 $B is a lot of $money. Ten years from now, will this projected...

That's food "to go", no matter where you eat it. A burger to die for.

Did Florida vote for Trump? This source: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-red-or-blue-is-your-state/ says Florida voted Republican in 2024 by over 13 (percent?). "Watch what you wish for ... ." Thank you Canada.

Fred Korematsu, 23, ... had plastic surgery in a failed attempt to circumvent the government agents determined to usurp his Constitutional rights. Some may have witnessed a veteran's contingent at an Independence Day celebration, and may have noticed a silent tear shed from a member of that...

The familiar paraphrase: - Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton Why do you suppose such persons chose police work? A U.S. government paycheck is a license to kill. When in U.S. history have government agents functioned so shamefully? Koramatsu? Let's...

Is there any location on Earth's surface that is 100% radiation free? I gather the experts call it "background" radiation. I'm not an expert in it, but I gather the goldilocks band for that is: - enough radiation to induce variation within the DNA, without - being so abundant it's lethal /...

One proposal included encapsulating radioactive waste in glass. BUT ! Today, Friday 13 Feb, 2026 there's already a huge backlog of nuclear waste, it would take decades. And we still don't have a sensible place to store it. France has dumped radioactive waste into the abyssal plain in steel...

Dave Letterman says this is why they hate us.

🚦 RED ! R5, Holy %$#@!@ cow ! Research the Hannaford, Washington nightmare. Radioactive waste was dumped on site for years. That radioactivity has now contaminated the groundwater, and is migrating toward the Missouri River. If / when it gets there, TITANIC trouble. The Missouri helps drain...

Wild guess? I'm not a nucular physician, but I suspect if your suggestion is accurate, the problem is that by mining & refining we concentrate the toxic properties, so that after we extract a little energy, what's left over is a long-term problem, even if global gamma radiation is reduced. R5...

Told my daughter at 20 to get a job or sleep in the garage... 20 years later she has done wonders with the garage!

Nope. That sir is revisionist self-criticism. iirc around the time China Syndrome hit the big screen, Three Mile Island hit the front page. That nuclear waste would be a radioactive albatross around the necks of one hundred human generations, a full millennium, was no secret. That atmospheric...