Weren't we here a few months ago when Iran launched a handful of non-nuclear missiles basically on the assumption that Israel would shoot almost all of them down?

Its just flooded. Pumping out water from mines was literally the first thing we mastered with industrialization.

Bullseye.

I can smell and hear that place.

"On today's broadcast, four failed actors will talk to a neo-Nazi with ties to the Russian government about how Harris is basically just as bad as the guy who tried to overthrow the government."

We're at only 30% humidity, but its gonna be 94 degrees today, so our swamp cooler is useless. Anyway, welcome to my TED talk about why the Defense Authorization Act should be used to manufacture inexpensive heat pumps...

If anything, that's pretty generous interpretation of libertarians.

I take comfort knowing that politicians will always be more afraid of the AARP than pharmaceutical companies.

I know at least two diabetics working construction who still have most of their fingers after accidents because of the ACA's protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Simplest POD would be: The USSR gets wind of Project Orion, but as so often happens during the Cold War, convinces themselves out of panic that concept designs reflect actual strategic intent. The USSR greenlights their own program, which forces the US to go full steam ahead with Orion.