Bend over, motorists; it's time for your free, state-funded prostate exams.  No, it's not optional.  In a world of socialized, er, "universal" health care, the freedom to neglect your sex organs at taxpayers' expense will end.  And that's not all.  "Mwuhahaha!!!"  The freedom to endanger yourself in so many creative ways, called "living" by most, will almost certainly be outlawed.  Skiing?  Phfft!  Rollerblading?  Nope.  Trail hiking?  Perhaps if you wear a hermetically sealed bubble-suit; you wouldn't want to contract AIDs from a mosquito.

And then there's driving.  If you think helmet and seatbelt laws serve only to undermine Natural Selection, then you're gonna hurl yesterday's waffles for this next round of genetic sabotage; it's like putting stupidity on the endangered species list.  At this rate, humanity will become so completely witless that we will require special robotic implants just to prevent us from choking on our own fingers.

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I grew up on Germany's Autobahn and, like so many Army brats, later settled into the 'burbs of our nation's murder capitol, Washington, D.C.  Springfield, Virginia, to be precise, and if you know the spot, please don't hold it against me.  From a young motorist's perspective, this was a punch in the nuts, moving from a society that appreciates and respects speed to another that demonizes it.  To top things off, Virginia was one of only two states (and DC, murder capitol) in our country to operate a long-standing ban on radar detectors.  [Connecticut would repeal its ban in 1998.]  One speeding ticket later, I would raise a finger to the establishment, purchase my first Escort radar detector (about the size and weight of Earth's moon) and drive, baby drive, in defiance of state law, for seventeen years.

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