As a cyclist, this is EXACTLY the attitude I follow. I am no expert, I just can't drive, so I bike.

For example, when going through an intersection, I find 2 cars that are moving at different rates, squeeze between them (the driver in the back quickly adapts to me, and slows down, otherwise I find another set), and pass through the intersection in the middle of the lane. If you are on the shoulder, it is to let people pass. When you let people pass, you can assume you can be jostled to the side by some drivers, and on a mountain road, that is VERY bad. Especially if you have a drain: if you are forced into a drain where the bars are in-line with your bike wheels, your thin wheels fall into the gap, and you end up very flat.

Disclaimer: As a teenager, I only have looked at all this, not actually been in the middle.

However, as it seems from down here, Courtship is something done either in the 18th century or by people who want responsibility for their own actions.

Am I entirely off my rocker with this?

It already has, the first paycheck is back.

I am afraid this falls apart at the title. There are no open-minded Progressives. If they were open minded, they already are Conservative.

Drink soda while reading Ricochet.

An aside point, but how do you think the inner city schools got their cops in the first place?

Yes, but it is expected for a ship to have a name. Not a bomb. Every ship has a name and a type, but bombs are usually only given types.

The fact that the bombs were named shows a different attitude about them. Go ahead, call the names trivia, but remember those bombs had them.

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We tend to have better things to do than get involved in entertainment, things like making the world a better place.

Sure, we can come up with show ideas up the wazzoo, but which conservatives would actually want to produce and act it?

By the way, I'm finding the mechanics of the bombs being discussed here to be absolutely fascinating. Now I know how I'm going to waste my lunch period tomorrow.

Many of those names I recognize as 1800s names, like the Monitor, and out of scope of my current history class. So many of those names were in my AP US History class, but only the Lusitania was in my current history class. And I know the Arizona is still where she went down in 1941.

And one of my test questions was the name of the "Greatest Athlete of All Time".

Because, like it or not, the people who "own" history, who are doomed to carry the past into the future, are no longer from your generation.

Within 10 years, my generation will be editing the history books. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but those who know the wrong history won't know the difference.

Lost knowledge is always a problem. Education is passed on from generation to generation, so the future can stand on the past. Any upset, no matter how small, can turn into a waste of a couple decades and societies. Imagine, if Hitler had read a little more of Napoleon's failings he may have even taken Moscow.

Thank you very much!

I was thinking. And the EPA was complaining about my illegal burning of rubber.

Perhaps it is not calculated, but non-calculated errors are still mistakes. That many people make the same error may not be people trying to produce an agenda, but that many people were affected by the agenda.

Names, express that someone cared enough about one particular device or person or block of wood to give it a name.

Nicknames are given because someone was worth naming again. Names are given because a person was worth naming. People who name their knives don't name knives that they don't plan on often using.

We gave the bombs names, meaning we cared about them. Not only did we care about them scientifically (did Rutherford's gold foil ever get named?), we cared about them personally. They MATTERED. You can imagine some young engineer coming in one day and saying "So how's our Fat Man feeling today?" It is harder to imagine that same person walking in and asking "How's our second atomic bomb feeling today?"