Caution: We Brake for Newton

Big people drive big cars. If one generalization seems safe in modern America, it is that the richer or more important you are, the more tons of steel and tinted glass you ride around in. Little people, if they drive at all, drive little cars, and you know without getting out your high school physics book what happens when big cars hit little cars. Perhaps it is fitting in some Darwinian way; we lowly ones in our eggshells offer minimal resistance as the Trumps and Keatings crunch over us, car phones in hand, on the way to their bankruptcy hearings and...

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