Mind your own business.

Digital Rectal Examinations (get it?) have been deprecated. They don't help. I'd suggest just tar and feathers and riding him out on a rail.

And this party would be exactly whom?

The Democrats? Who brought you Queen Hillary? Who, arguably would have been a better choice than Stud Muffin but not someone I could tolerate without a hefty dose of anti nausea medication and / or psychedelics.

The Libertarians? Greenies?

Lisa Murkowski would actually be a pretty good presidential candidate. Female, reasonably intelligent, basically reasonable. Not obviously beholden to too many different things (other than oil companies but nothing new here). Someone who could actually behave as a progressive Republican.

But not a snowball's chance in Hell, especially with all of this climate change stuff.

Then where the hell are my keys?

JUST two bags of firearms? In America?

I get more dangerous things in my breakfast cereal.

How do you know they're not? Been outside lately?

We don't get to see the 'real' catalog. That's only for special folks. With their own helicopters and big bank accounts.

(Hopefully, these mini dogs are as loud as 'Big Dog' which sounded like a Abrams tank. Only good for sneaking up on the deaf folks at the nursing home.)

If we did that we would solve the transportation crisis in one jiffy. Virtually nobody will be able to drive.

Fortunately, those autonomous cars will be cruising down the pike Real Soon Now and all will be good. That and Amazon 30 minute delivery, virtual reality goggles, Brwando and 'bating.

Yes, the elites seem to be hating Trump with a passion. Yes indeed. All the way to the bank.

Nah, in my small town it's just PD picking up people with 'altered mental status', a few trash can maulings by bears and the occasional sea lion snoring. We save shadow jumping for the City Assembly meeting.

Well, you're a fool. Just because your (imaginary) children are responsible Boy Scouts (err, just 'Scouts' now) and learned safe gun handling in the womb doesn't mean their friends are.

One kid. One chambered round. A few seconds. That's all it takes.

If you're THAT paranoid about your person, either up you meds, move or just carry the damned gun with you.

(Says someone with close to a dozen guns locked in a gun cabinet. No kids. Bears and other local miscreants get pepper sprayed.)

Really? The US is run out of a medium sized city (Tel-Aviv - the country is basically Tel-Aviv and some surrounding military bases, orange groves and tourist spots)? The entirety of the United States economic and political efforts as well as a major industrial sector is run out of someplace the size of New Jersey?

I'm impressed.

There is really only one way to test this. A fully loaded Falcon 9 Block 5 with an unmanned Dragon II capsule on the launch pad.

A little spark.

An earth-shattering kaboom.

And some cool video.

Come on, you want to do it, Elon.

And Korlov pulled those restraints out of his (rather experienced) butt. They were gut checks. There was no science or engineering behind them. And that was almost 70 years ago.

Things change. Knowledge advances.

This isn't to say that SpaceX isn't taking additional, unnecessary risks, but to run back to this bit of ancient received wisdom is hardly helpul.

Densification. It's not for rocket fuel anymore.