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President George H.W. Bush Dies at 94

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Nerdy Fish12/01/2018 3:24:57 pm PST

re: #84 freetoken

Schuller’s drive-in church was, in my opinion, one of the great windows into the American psyche.

Looking at American history, his drive-in church was the end result of two centuries of continual westward expansion, constant movement, and the importance Americans came to put on mobility as the defining quality of being an American.

We love our cars more than we love our guns, and that is saying something.

Foreigners who come to visit (or when we go over there) are astonished to find that we drive almost everywhere, because as crazy as traffic is in most European or Asian cities, not that many people actually drive much. The craziness is mostly due to all the restrictions in the Old World cities’ road networks. Of course, to be fair, the distances between points of interest in America tend to be quite a bit larger, too.