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Entry: Is Driver's Ed a Liberal Art? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/is_drivers_ed_a_liberal_art#31121 Post contents: This may be the single creepiest article in the "same planet, different worlds" category that I've ever read. I just got a '04 RX-8 GT, by, I have to believe, God's Providence. I was looking to get a new truck, and had pulled the money out of savings. Went to just about every dealer in town trying to find a small truck with the right characteristics, and then, at the Mazda Dealership, there it was. Only $1000 more than the truck that I was looking at. I actually went home and thought about it overnight. When I got up the next morning, my brain was screaming "idiot, get the car" and I swear I heard Angels in the background going "ahhhhh, ahhhh". Got to the lot, said "I'll take it and pay cash" (boy did that get their attention) and the Angel voices got louder. Now I'm borrowing my female coworkers and going whipping through the Loop traffic at 100 MPH, just casual, like it's nothing. Those of you who have never driven a rotary, it is something else, smooth, effortless, it just spools up faster and faster, 8000 RPM's and it is like flying..ok sorry I got carried away. Well the point is I literally cannot imagine any American male NOT doing that if he had that perfect intersection of means and chance. Fry crying out loud, when I was in HS we had a guy in our Driver's Ed car do a panic stop on the access road trying to merge into I-5 traffic his first time, and we were so pissed off at him for embarrasing us we switched him out with a chick (ok, as I now understand, "manly girl") in the girl's car. Ok so I grew up rural. Still, I cannot conceive, I mean, really, how can you NOT want to get behind the wheel and haul ass? You haven't lived until you've done 130 on crappy Interstate roads, trying to keep it to the pavement while keeping a real sharp eye out.... Come on man, live a little. Sent at: 2008 12 02