The first is common sense; I’d no more vote for one of them than Hector Maduro.\u00a0 The second seems just good sense.<\/p>\n
These days, Real Americans don\u2019t much go to sea [a Moby Dick reference – Ed.] to relieve the damp, drizzly Novembers in our souls, but we do like to fire up the muscle Mustang or the F-150 truck with the gun rack and head out on the open road, following our noses and letting the trade winds blow us where they may.Or at least we used to like it. But with the advent of the abomination known as the \u201cself-driving car,\u201d one of our most precious freedoms is now in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
I mean, who asked for this? Communists? Women? (I know, same thing, voting-wise.) Sob sisters, pantywaists, geeks, pencil necks, and nancy boys? I suspect them all. It\u2019s bad enough to climb into the cockpit of a new car these days and be confronted with a home entertainment center on wheels, complete with giant video screens that don\u2019t do a damn thing electronically a 1934 Packard couldn\u2019t do manually back in the day when men were men, women loved them for it, and we had the culture to prove it.<\/p>\n
Now what? A \u201cself-driving\u201d car is an oxymoron, in the same way that \u201cpaying for a tax cut\u201d is. Someone or something is going to be driving that car, and the whole point here is that it ain\u2019t going to be you, brother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Never going to do it.\u00a0 \u00a0Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some things I will never, ever do: Vote for a Metro Democrat Buy a Windows phone Own a “driverless car“. The first is common sense; I’d no more vote for one of them than Hector Maduro.\u00a0 The second seems just good sense. The last?\u00a0 It’s unamerican: These days, Real Americans don\u2019t much go to sea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65225,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224\/revisions\/65225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}