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“When ownership becomes permission… we’re just renting ghosts.”

Visual of sight distance for the Abrams M1A1 tank vs trucks, comparing the distance away from the vehicle an average-height 5yo and 3yo would need to be in order to be seen. The tank can see the 5yo at 1.3m, while the trucks range from 1.65m to 2.5m.
Box of Descent for PlayStation 1
MANKIND'S SPARE HOURS By GLENN FRANK Why all this fuss about adult education for the wiser leisure hours? use of answered. our There are business visitors to be Because-I should say- entertained. -democracy There is a household to be ordereo. is really run on the average man's spare time. There are accounts to be squared. There are social favors to be re- To most of the problems that bulk largest in the high-brow Journals pald. There is the question of the boy's affairs the rank and file of us give only occasional sparetime con- camp to decide. sideration. There is the girl's school to be detemined. Birth Control! There are domestic emegencies to Educational Reform! Fundamentalism! be met. There are boots to be sent to the Modernism! mender. Naval Disarmament! There is health to be looked after. The League of Nations! The World "When all these things have been Court! competently dealt with," said John How much sustained study have Drinkwater, you, are now reading these lines, commenting on some such list of dally doings as this, given to any of these issues during "our citizen has vey little margin the last months? of attention for tariff or drink re- The fact is that the average man's form, or for abstract problems of time is pretty thoroughly taken up hygiene or patriotism. And yet with rounties upon which his very there is some margin, and it is ac- life rests. tivity within this margin that finally There are appointments to be decides the progress of the world." kept. Adult education 1s designed to There is a dally train to be caught. keep the citizen awake and informed There are letters to be answered. in this margin spare time, for 1f There are telephone calls to be Norman Angell is right in sayinz aliswered. democracy is run on the barber's There is counsel to be got and gly-en. spare time, we want the barber to There are crazy questions to be be bright. Copyright McClure Newspaper Syn.
The “grail-shaped beacon” hovering over the Castle Anthrax from the movie Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.